Show I SAfE CRACKERS ABANDoN JOB Make Preparations to Blow Safe in Laundry Opposite Police Headquarters CROOKS NOT INTERRUPTED ABLE TO WATCH STATION FROM LAUNDRY WINDOW Safe crackers cr apparently having a low opinion of the watchfulness of the po police police lice made an effort to open the safe In Inthe Inthe inthe the office of the Royal laundry at 19 East First South street early yes yesterday y yesterday morning The laundry aund Is across the street from police headquarters arters but the fact that the tue place bad had been visited by b prowlers was vms not known until the laundry was opened yesterday esterday morning It was then discovered that two windows of oC the wash vash room had been smashed Through this opening the tho safe safecrackers crackers apparently crawled When they got sot In Inside inside inside side they found Cound their way Impeded by b two doors These they the forced open After that they made their way ay Into the laundry laundr office and commenced an attack upon the safe sate which is s near the front windows While the thieves were at work they could look across the street at police headquarters and keep a watch upon nil all that was going on there The safe contained SOO the money moncy hav hay havin haying ing in been placed there In readiness to pay payoff pa payoff off the laundry today Marks of a chisel around the edge of the safe door showed where they made their preparations for using nitroglycerin Plan Is Abandoned Something must have disturbed them themas as they did not use the explosive Instead they abandoned their attack upon the safe and broke open the till at the office counter used for the re reception reception reception of small cash during the day da daIt It contained only a few pennies kept there for making malting change These were wen not disturbed by the Intruders They were evidently looking for larger spoils It is probable that at the last moment the thief became afraid of using nitro nitroglycerin glycerin so near to police headquarters There was a steady stead stream of policemen men In and out of the station early yesterday morning owing tf to the th unusual number of petty cases requiring Investigation The safe crackers could from their position at atthe atthe atthe the laundry safe see the door of police headquarters and they may have con concluded concluded eluded that th t some one of the passing blue bluecoats bluecoats bluecoats coats would hear the explosion If they persisted In carrying carr ing out the Job Yesterday morning when Manager C CH CH H II Miller MIlI r opened the office he discovered what had happened and reported the matter to the police No arrests have been made |