Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-05-15 | Page 1 | Yeggs Batter down Door of Strong Vault

YEGGS BATTER D01 DOOR OF - STRONG VAULT s With Sledge Hammer and Crowbar as Only Tools, Thieves Succeed in Breaking Break-ing Into Kahn Bros.' Store CASH AND CHECKS ARE LOOT STOLEN Watchman on Block and . Man Working Next Door Fail to Hear Racket Made by Intruders; Take Bonds For the first time In ths history of crime In Salt LeJce City, safe rob-bere rob-bere battered down a thick eteel and Iron vault door and broke open a safe last night. The robbery wa at Kahn Brother Wholesale Grocery office, of-fice, 46 Bouth Third Weet street. The police say that evidently from six to eight hours were consumed by the yeggs In reaching the cash and checks. While the loss has not yet been estimated. It Is known that ths robbers obtained about $200 In cash. ' I60 In Liberty bonds and a large number of checks for various amounts. The police ssy that the men must be possessed of tremendous strength, for onry a, sixteen-pound sledge hammer ham-mer and an Iron crowbar ware used to beat down the vault door and rrark the safe. These tools were found thla morning at the scene of the 'robbery. ; W. H. Hayes of ths Rysn Fruit 'eompany was at work next door until a pete hour Sunday and heard no jots n the Kahn office. A watch-nu watch-nu wtto patrols the block did not bear the resrg at work, but the police ear that tt Is certain that the rob-warn rob-warn inuet have created a great alalia la crumpling ta vault -slower (Th officers believe the robbers to be aaxxaasara, as they made no attempt te waa explosive and relied on sheer Ifsjlli Dntrance to the building waa gained througn the skylight.