The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-18
USE PUNCH
TO KNOCK
OFF LOCKS
Griswold Plant, Midway
Oil, Bottling Works and
Office Raided

| Yeggs were busy in Rock Island
/ last night and entered four places,
stealing approximately $3.50. Two
( of three safes opened provided the
/ loot.
/ A third safe had no money in il
and was not locked, but d sign on
the safe to this effect was ignored
and the knob ard dial broken of A
fourth safe withstoOd all efforts to
break it open.
| Damage to safes and loss of Valu-
able papers will add to these totals.
The safes were not blown, but were
opened by what is known as the
punch" method. The places en-
tered:
Griswold Manufacturing COM
pany, 500 Fortieth street Loss
SIS in cash and a check for
$40 payable TO cash.
Midway Oil company, 2O1
Forty-third street Loss $135
in money and a check for S15-S3
probably negotiable.
Carse & Ohlweiler Bottling
Works, 425 Eleventh street
Loss of valuable papers when
strong box was carried into
street and broken open.
Buick Motor company, 1920
Fourth avenue. Safe badly
damaged, but withstood at
tempts to open it
The yeggs worked without de-
lection in each neighbOrhOod, and
at the Carse & Ohlweiler plant they
broke open the iron box taken out
of the safe, after carrying it into
the street None of the rObberies
was discovered until this morning
, when the various places geT8
opened for business.
AS one after the other the reports
! came into the police station this
full force of city detectives was
put on the job of rounding up the
yeggs. Not one workable clue has
been found.
The work OF the yeggs last night
was the first large attempt b.
criminals this winter TO make hau1a
in Rock Island and Police ChiCi
Tom Cox was hoping that by night z
he would have something 10 work
upon.
No hour Of the burgIaries was
fixed nor is it known in what ruta-
ton.
Started at Midnight.
Julius Gottlieb, salesman for the
Buick Motor company. said thaS he
did not leave the Office until IL
o'clock last night. He was in the
office at 8 o'clock this morning and
found that the knob and dial had
been broken OF the safe, but The
yeggs had failed to open it They
ing by using a jimmy on rear
window.
At the Griswold Manufacturing
company plant, George Endich, an
employe, was on the job at $50
o'clock this morning. He found
the safe door broken open and
papers strewn over the office floor.
The yeggs had entered the building
through a basement window and
went out the rear door which they
unlocked from the inside Office
employees arrived and it was learned
that IS in cash and a check signed
by A V. Esterdahl, secretary Of the
company, and made out to cash
had been taken.
AT the Midway Oil company the
ycggs gained entrance through a
rear WINDOW, and aIter breaking
the safe they escaped through the
front door. The robbery was dis
covered at $50 o'clock by Louis
Kobb, a company driver J. j.
GrCtegut, secretary of the company.
said that he found 10 disarrange-
ment in the office, and papers had
not been disturbed in the safe A
check for $15.83 and $I35 in cash
had been stolen.
AT the Carse & OhIWeiIer plant
the yeggs gained entrance by using
a Jimmy" on a window on the
Eleventh street side Of the Office.
John Ohlweiler, one Of the firm, dis
Gov cred the robbery at O'Clock
this morning Mr.. Ohlweiler said
that the safe had not been used 10
keep money in and for this reason
he had each night hung a small sign
on the knob upon which was printed
mot locked" The yeggs either did
not notice this sign OF paid no at
tention to il, as they went ahead
and smashed the lock. A small iron
box was taken into the street and