The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-11-27
-FOUR JOBS NET
bURGS OVER $500
HERE LAST NIGHT
Davis Grocery, Wits Grocery, Hop
kns & Neal Markets Entered;
Davis Hlt Hardest With
Lose Of Money.
CHIEF PHILLIPS SAYS
MUST HAVE MORE COPS
Conditions Changing, He Declares;
viii Apply for Pair Of Patrol.
men ne Additions TO Present
Police Force.

ing a rigid search for the burglars
who early Sunday night entered two
grocery stores and two meat mark.
cts here. escaping with loot total.
Ing approximately $500 and damag.
ing three safes. Victims of the
burglars were Meals meat market,
Claud Davis grocery. Witt cash
store and Hopkins and Venable's
meat market and grocery.
Ben Phillips. chief OF police. be.
lieves all four jobs were done by
the same gang. Tho bulk OF the
loot was taken from the claud Da-
Wis grocery. 4iG Chickasha avenue.
wnere the safe was opened with a
slodge hammer and chisel and ap-
proximately 5000 in currency and
checks were taken. They entered
the Davis grocery by smashing a
small window in the rear of the
building.
The next heaviest loser was the
Meals meat market, sos Chickasha
avenue. Here, the combinations on
two large safes were broken. While
the locksmith had not succeeded in
opening the safes late this morning,
J. G. Neal, proprietor of the store,
believes that nothing was taken
that he frightened the outlaws away
when he came down to his store
To- tfrlt a.
o'clock for the purpose Of getting
bottle of milk. When he opened
the door Of the building, he found
the two safes damaged, a large
ch'sI laying on the floor and the
back door of the building opened.
Police headquarters were immedi-
ateIy notified and in the search
which followed, the burglarizing OF
the Davis grocery, the Wits cash
store at 321 Choctaw avenue, and
the Hopkins and Venable market at
109 South Second street, was dis
covered.
Tools Used Were Stolen.
Entrance to all four buildings
were gained by demolishing win
dows in the rear.
When Oscar Dotson, blacksmith
operating the shop on North Fifth
street, opened his place of business
this morning, he discovered that
several tools had been stolen The
large sledge hammer and the chisel
used by the burglars last night were
two of the, tools, which were iden-
titled this morning at police head
quarters. The chisel was found
near the safes in the Meals market
and the sledge hammer was found
in the Davis grocery.
Nothing was taken from Wits
store on Choctaw avenue. The
Hopkins and Venable market missed
only a small amount Of cigarets,
smoking tobacco, one silver dollar
and 100 pennies.
Home Talent Is Belief.
"All indications lead us to believe
that the burglaries were committed
by home TALENT" Chief Of Police
Phillips said today. We shall
spare no energy in an endeavor to
find the guilty persons"
While prospects for the getting
Of a clear finger print in any of the
four establishments are not very
bright, finger print expert has
been requested to come to Chicka-
sha to look over the situation.
Chief Phillips declared this morn
ing that he would ask the city coun-
Gil to provide for two more patrol
men on his force. "The bringing in
of the gas field near here and other
conditions at this time absolutely
necessitates larger police force"
he said Il shall urge the mayor
and council to employ two more
men to do nothing but patrol the
business section at night. During
the past two years, there has been
very little outlawry in Chickasha
and the need for large police forca
was not pressing. Because OF
finances, two men were laid off sew
eral months ago. Conditions at the
present time are different and two
more patrolmen are needed"