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Show fOLD CROOKS GET $50,0HJEiLS iter Big Diamond Store of San Francisco' hv Cutting Hole in the M all. I. f'OMMITTEI) IN BEST PATROLLED DISTRICT Jobbers Blow Doors Oil' Safe Older Eyes of Special and Regular Officers. SAX PRVNflSC'O.. April H.-Some me during the night and in the best-Urollcd best-Urollcd district, of the. eily thieves itcrcd the .jewelry .store of P. Lund v. 14 Market street, and robbed it of amoiuls and other jowelrv amounting ol),U0u. ' Entrance v.-as gained by cutting a ilc through the purtition that aepar-cs aepar-cs the ston from a eandv shop. This s done without disturbing the lights at were burning in either store. This J le was made large enough ro allow ! e thieves to crawl through, Once in-e in-e they set to work on the iuiiin under-kmc. under-kmc. I wo three-eighths inch holes ro bored in the sate near the com-,?,l",)n com-,?,l",)n ,na1 tmc o t lie handles jhl be forced back. The second lever 8 next loreed and 1he doors opened th nitro-glycerine. The vault was :n cleaned. ft.- No Olcw to the Thieves. J The. police are at a loss as to who the tmeves can be, as so manv Fasten crooks hac arrived in the oitv with We idea of operating while the ticct. te. visiting this port. : The crime was one of the boldest ; a the history of police aunals. for the cracksmen worked under the eves of I pair of special walehmen em'plovod i liy the .-jeweler and the two regular 'patrolmen 'pa-trolmen on the beat, while over the afe an electric liglit. burns bright Iv all' 1 jJuniig the night. Save for a short- i inndk-d sledge hammer, a pair of i Waeksmith longs, which could have been ! rif absolutely no value to the thieves, wirl an Oilcloth cover such as is usually roni on a dross hat in siormv weather. ' he men who lid the work "left nbo-I utelv no clow as !o their identitv. Work of ExPrt Cracksmen. vH Kery coiupartmeul in the afc was Cone or by (he. robbers but thov took 6(1 nothing but jewels of value, set ami un-M un-M 601. No matches were stolen, the oper-jfc oper-jfc RtoiH carclully aoiding any article that J f1' '';u'rv ;i mark of identification. " - ilr store, through which" the" jcwclrv iif) inn' was entered, but forced, but notli- nr was taken. mYi .Om leaiug the place the robbers care ally dosed the door leading to the 0jf iijoiiet at the rear of Wichinan's "place. U fo that the otlicors on the beat 'would jfai ehee on first inquiry 'that Wiclvman'a .jlij store was the only place entered. On diseoAcring the amount of his loss, which ip estimated at from .45,000 roti 50,1)00. rr. Lundy was completelv jl prostrated Two men who were heard tras tifiCMPsing the robbery have been ar- rested oji suspicion, 'ifc'i ' |