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Show BURGLARS' RICH HAUL FRBM I RESIDENCE Jewelry and Valuables Worth Several Hundred Dollars Secured by Thieves. Kurglars entered the residence of John Rays at 11 Devon court Saturday night, and succeeded in getting aw;t with valuables val-uables worth several hundred d hilars. Included In the list was a pair of diamond dia-mond earrings, four diamond rings and two two-dollar and a half gold pieces. House Ransacked. According to the story told to Officers Parry and Watson by Mrs Bay, she had re-.-,, coi.e from the house about an hour and a half and upon returning at 0:30. found everything upside down. A hurried hur-ried search disclosed the fact that the above articles were gone, and It Is possible pos-sible that others will be reported missing miss-ing after carefully looking over the silverware sil-verware and other valuables which burglars burg-lars generally look for Skeleton Keys Used It Is the theory of officers, who are working on the tyise that the place was either entered by I he use of skeleton keys or by some one who knew the ground pretty well and had seemed a duplicate key as both the doors and windows wer1 o, icil ns Mrs Bays had left them when BHe -"tarted for a neighbor's house. Left Matches on Table. The first thing lhat Mrs. Bays discovered discov-ered upon reaching the house thai excited ex-cited her suspicions was the absence of matches which she had carefully placed on a table whr-re they would be ha inly upon her return There was no light lu the house and as she grouped around for the matches, she finally discovered them several feel from where they had been placed, and several had been used Finally Fin-ally after striking another match, she beheld be-held the contents of bureau drawers scattered scat-tered around and at once started for a I telephone. Thought Men Were In House. U lb.. .l,,,,r wns loeke.l 01,011 her re - I turn, and none of the windows had been opened Mrs. Bays had reason to believe that the burglars were still In some other part of the house ami so informed the desk sergeant when word was s.-nt to the station A thorough search, however. failed to disclose the preset, 1 attv burglars, and so far mi clew has been dls-COVered dls-COVered 10 work upon. Mr Rays Is rni-ployed rni-ployed by the Rio Grande Railway corn-pan corn-pan v as yafd master. Also Entered Another House. At midnight it was discovered by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rous, who reside at No 3 Devon court, that their house had also been entered. They had boon awSj spend- 1 ing the evening and did not return until 1- o'clock. As lu the former case, the burglars used skeleton keys and all the del rs and windows were found to be locked and apparently undisturbed. Nothing of value was missed at tin Roux bone although only a hurried search had licon mado at the time a report was sent In from the residence. |