Show CRACKSMEN WRECK RECK SAfE AND OffiCE Experts at W WorK orl for Hours in Western PacKing Co Plant LEAVE BEFORE THEY CAN REACH THE GOLD Neighbors Hear Noise but Watchman Knows Nothing Nothing Nothing Noth Noth- ing of Happening Frightened by their own nois noisy operation operations op op- op- op orations th thieves eve after blowing blowin the hugo steel doors from the safo of the Western Packing company West est Second South street and badly wrecking wreck wreck- in lug ing the tho office fixtures fled through h the rear entrance earl early this morning and made their getaway without a cent of I plunder Entering through a rear window the cracksmen evidently worked for sev 60 several several eral hours borin boring through h tho the chrome steel of the big biJ safe door The hole was mado made just under the knob of thedoor thedoor the tho door handle This was filled tilled with nitro- nitro glycerin Standing some feet off from tho the safo safe tho the cracksmen evidently fired fireda a shot at the explosive o Tho explosion that followed was terrific in its destruction tion of office co fixtures The steel door weighing several tons ions was blown completely completely com com- from rom its iff fastening and d' d fell par to tho the floor i Per Persons ons living lhing in the tho vicinity report I I that they heard beard the explosion but no noone noone one ono paid particular attention to it it Patrolman Patrolman Patrolman Pa Pa- Dot Doty at the time of the explosion sion was was at the tho other end cud of his bis beat two blocks from tho the building The sound failed to reach him bim Way Is Still Barred The Tho first charge charce failed to open the safo safe completely com ns os tho the mone money vaults are protected by plated steel oven harder barder to drill through h than the chrome This plated steel was partially drilled through for a second charge when tho the robbers were frightened awa away in some unknown manner When the officials o of the company ar arrived arrived ar- ar rived the office looked as though a a des ass desperate desperate des des- fi fight ht had taken place with within n. n Chairs avid and desks were overturned drawers were ransacked and every overy conceivable con con- place lace where whore money or valuables valuables yalu- yalu ables mi might ht bo ho hidden was waa probed The Tho inner compartments of the vault were opened by company officers and ana everything within was found intact Several hundred dollars in gold Jold would havo have been the tho reward of tho burglars had the they succeeded in opening tho the money moncy vault Just why the tho cracksmen suspended operations when almost through h thedoor thedoor the tho door is a mystery to tho the police Tho The only solution is that some somo ono as yet et unknown wn to the tho police attracted b by bj tho the explosion made mado an aD investigation thereby thereby there there- by fn frightening tho the marauders away Shoot Lock of Door Their exit from the building was hur bur ried Instead of climbing through the tho window which they entered they shot away away- the lock on ou the rear door People living lU H several rods from rom tho the packing packet company claim laim that they heard lou loud voices vOices dunn during the early morning early morning hours bours as thou though b in altercation James Kinney the ni night ht watchman at atthe atthe the tho packing bou house e could not bo be located this morning mornin and for several hours the tho fear was entertained that ho bo had bad como come on the tho thieves at work and had been dealt with roughly for his pains It was even suggests suggested that perhaps ho had been killed by the tho thieves Kinney was found at home bome in bed bcd in inthe inthe the tho rear of the tho packing house home He lie knew nothing of tho the robber robbery Work of Experts That tb the cracksmen were experts t is the tho positive belief of the tho police who are art working hard on the tho case This is the second case casc of safo safe cracking in the past week and is taken as indicative e of the tho arr arrival arral al of the tho usual fall crowds of crooks on their western mi migration ration to the tho con coast t. t ond Beyond considerable damage damno to tho the safe and office fixtures tho the ro room m at tho the packing house was not injured by tho the explosion |