Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-09-24 | Page 11 | Safe Robbery Total for Year Hits 33

SAFE ROBBERY FOR YEAR HITS 33 I OX AT i PHARMACY IS IS' lOOTED AGAIN I I I Burglars Work Unhindered Within Half Haff Block of Police Substation Smashing their way Into the Johnson Schramm-Johnson drug drugstore store at 1087 East Twenty-first Twenty South street lessi ess 1 than half bOll a block from the police pollee substation In Sugarhouse safe robbers robbers rob rob- I bers battered open the strongbox and stole early Thursday morning Apparently indifferent to officers I on duty at the substation and the shotgun squads presumably patrolling patrolling patrolling patrol patrol- ling the district the robbers cut away bars and a heavy screen on the wIndow wIndow window win wIn- dow of or an adjoining barber shop battered down three doors and then plundered the safe which stands a afew afew afew few feet from the drug store entrance entrance entrance en en- trance In full view of the street It was Salt Lakes Lake's thirty third safe robbery of or the year ear and the second time in six months that the drug drugstore drugstore store safe has been looted On April 30 using the same means of ingress to the pharmacy and the same method method method meth meth- od of opening the safe burglars obtained obtained ob ob- ob- ob tamed Although many suspected safe r robbers have been arrested police have been unable to obtain a single conviction DISCOVERED IN MORNING The robbery occurred after alter midnight midnight mid mid- night when the store closed It was as discovered b by J. J P R B. Jensen 1921 Tenth East street mana manager er and Harold Harold Harold Har Har- old Beckstrand 1915 Tenth East street clerk when they opened the store at a a. a mI m. m I I City Detectives Lester F. F Wire and jJ J. J Ross Hunsaker responded to their call and found evidence of what they I characterized a perfect job j I The officers discovered that the burglars first scaled an iron gate in inthe I Ithe the rear of Sewells Sewell's grocery 1079 East Twenty-first Twenty South street to gain ain access s to a hallway leading to the rear of or the Sugarhouse barber barbershop shop 2048 Eleventh East street streetA A ladder was taken from the groI grocery grocery gro gro- cery to enable the burglars to reach the rear window of ot the barber shop I about 15 feet from the ground Heavy iron bars and a steel screen were were cut cutI I Continued Continued on Pate Pue Twenty AT T PH PHARMACY RM GY IS ISI I lOOTED AGAIN G IN Continued on Pace Page T Twenty away with bolt shears and entrance was gained td the barber shop BREAK IN DOOR The burglars then ihen battered in a adoor adoor adoor door leadin leading to the shop ba basement ement An attempt was made with a pick to dig through the basement wan wall into the drug drus store basement but this Iwas was abandoned in favor of or the more direct method of smashing through a door lead leading ins into the dru drug store cellarA cellar A third door was then broken down and Ind the robbers reached their goal The safe sale was attacked with a heavy sledge hammer and the combination I Iri ri dial 1181 tl and handle were knocked off oft Next the tumblers were punched out land and the door forced open After looting the safe sate the burglars apparently left by the wa way they thc en en- They left no fingerprints and Itis Itis it itis is presumed that the they wore gloves loves