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Show PlilP ROBBERS USED GREAT SKILL t Simon Store, Supposed lo Be Burglar-proof, Protected by Electric Wires. AAUST CLOSE BUSINESS Concern a Family Affair; East Siders With Articles in Pawn Greatly Excited. By International News Service. NEW YORK, March 17. The men who perpetrated tho 300,000 robbery in tho pawnshop of Martin Simon & Son Sunday morning must have possessed definito knowledge of tho electric wiring wir-ing by which the placo was supposedly made burglar-proof. This is the belief oxpressod by Deputy Police Commissioner Commission-er Doughert' tonight. The police aro making a minute investigation of all who had access to tho pawnbrokerago shop and thus becamo cognizant of tho manner in which the establishment was protected against burglars. Both Martin Mar-tin Simon and his sou Max agroo with tho police that tho intruders must have known in advance how to avoid setting set-ting off an alarm which would have brought tho special patrolmen of tho Burglar Alarm company to tho scene. Used Much Skill. "The men who committed this deed," young Simon said, "used much skill in passing the electric wiring to the walls, first in the basement and then up in the shop. This nienns that thoy know how tho wires .were laid. Then thoy drilled into the-safe in such a way that thoy just passed the wires that protected "it. "Our concern was a family business. None but relatives worked in tho place. The few others -who camo in, it sooma to mo, must have been excoptionalb' keen to havo learned all thoy did without with-out our becoming suspicious. Our loss is at least $250,000. Family Ruined. "It means wo aro ruined annd must forever closo our business. It is nothing, noth-ing, however, compared to tho loss of onr customers. All tho articles plodgcd wcro worth moro than tho money wc pve for them. And. besides this, we had much property irom other pawnbrokers pawn-brokers brought to us for safekeeping.4" safekeep-ing.4" Throughout tho cast side, the toI)-bery toI)-bery was received as a sovero blow to hundreds of families. Scores of men and women gathered about the closed shop, some waving tickets, shouting threats against the Simons and dcinanff-iiigt dcinanff-iiigt to know when thoy could loarn if their particular property had boon stolen. A lino of police" roscrves protected pro-tected tho dingy looking placo. Will Take Inventory. "Thrco dayB," they continued to shout at tho crowd, their" moaning being that in that time something could possibly pos-sibly bo told to them. A woman who lives over the pawnshop pawn-shop hns given tho police a description of two. men sho saw drive up to tho shop with a peddler's wagon yesterday aftornoon and drivo awav apain with several packages taken from the cellar. cel-lar. Tho actions of tho men did not seom in any way suspicious at the time I and thoy mado no effort at hurry or concealment. I |