Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-06-24 | Page 2 | Robbers Blow Safe in Grocery Store at Garfield

ROBBERS BLOW SAFE I IN GROCERY STORE AT GARFIELD GARFIELO I I II I Burglars Escape pe With 1000 1900 and d Valuable Papers of Firm SEARCH IS UNDER WAY J Report o of Explosion Unheard Unheard Un Un- heard by Men Sleeping I in Next Room 0 Burglars blew open pen the safe of the Magna Grocery store last night and escaped with 1000 1 and valuable papers es of the st store stoe st sleeping next net door did did not not hear hear the explosion and the h robbery was was' was ri not dt t discovered until this his morning The Magna Grocery is a branch of the Garfield Tr Trading d ni company under the management of ot C. C W. W Aldrich Ed Janney watchman and guard at the Magna l mill Investigated the robbery He found that the back door had been forced with a jimmy The safe had been blown open with ni nitroglycerin According to Mr l Janney Janne the safe safecrackers safecrackers safecrackers crackers were professionals who knew how to muffle the explosion and open I Ithe the safe with skill I Sheriff John S. S Corless and dep deputies are investigating the robbery today I It is expected that a stronger guard will be placed around the Garfield I Trading company's store and the bank Large sums of ot money are handled In Inthe inthe I Ithe the store and bank when the men are i paid their monthly wages i So cleverly was the safe blowing done according to Sheriff Corless thata that thata a chandelier hanging just above the safe did not even have its delicate lights cracked by the jar The robbers robbers rob rob- bers hers had wrapped the safe In overalls taken from the store shelf to muffle the sound and prevent nt anything but the safe being wrecked Because of the character of Qt the job and its similarity to the series serles of ot safe that have occurred during the thelast thelast thelast last month the sheriff believes It was the work of professionals He further thinks s that the same gang Is oper operating In various parts of the state stat By long Jong 1 tel ph asked Ci l us deputies throughout the cou county ty t to keep watch for suspicious characters In the last thirty days three safes satt's have been blown In Salt Lake county two in Davis county and one In Juab