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Show BTJBOLAB3 GET 3)2000 IN -. . CASH, fit, ooo nr bonds SKOALS,- JnL. Jan. . A, gang of tea or fifteen burglars forced entrance) to the vault In the general store owned by J. H. ATbaugh, at 1 ft. m. today, blew open the. safe and stole $2000 In cash and 111,000 worth of coupon Government Govern-ment bonds,- not registered. Charles Taylor, ft young man, was captured by the burglars and placed In ft caboose, where he remained till daylight. day-light. He estimates the gang as numbering num-bering between twelve and fifteen, and saya he thinks it was the Intention of the burglars to loot the Martin county bank, but, finding the upper floor of the bank building was occupied, they abandoned aban-doned the attempt. The tool used by the burglars were stolen from a blacksmith shop. The safe and vault were badly wrecked, evidently evi-dently by nitroglycerin. The night was stormy, and none of the cltlsens heard the noise of the explosion. ' There Is no clue to the Identity of the robbers, who probably escaped on one of the trains that stopped here early this morning.-. Bloodhounds have been sent' for, and an attempt will be mad to trail the gang. - . ' This Is the second safe-blowing here within a year. It Is supposed the burglars bur-glars were the same that robbed the Odon and Sandbom banks recently. |