Show I BURGLAR LOUTS LOOTS STORE SAFE THEN EFFACES CLUES u 4 AND FOOTPRINTS OF CLEVER ROBBER ARE COVERED I HE safe ae o of the tho Smedley Vincent shoe s store re 25 East Broadway i- i L LI was opened Wednesday night by y one of the cleverest criminals I 1 c police have had to cope with in many months The robber I I 10 tamed 60 in Wash rash but abandoned several checks and securities I Ihen When hen one of the clerks opened th the store t this is morning he found found I I all the doors lOCKed ana and nothing naming outwardly OUtwardly OUt oui- unusual On going to the safe sare I he operated the combination only to find that the cash was gone Some cunning safe expert had operated the combination extracted the money and then neatly set the combination again The burglar had evidently obtained entrance by using a passkey on the back door The police believe the job to be the work of an experienced criminal criminal crim crim- inal as us the man is thought to have worn rubber loves gloves in that he left lett no fingerprints about the safe sare by which he might be identified when captured FOOTPRINTS COVERED Even the footprints in the soft sort dirt of the alley had be been n carefully confused confused con con- fused and erased so as to leave no clue The combination had not been changed hanged recently and there is a possibility that th the safe BaCe robber may have obtained it in some way Burglars entered the Electric Truck Service company at East First JS South buth uth street Wednesday night through a rear window and forced their way into a a. locker They secured 29 in cash but discarded in Thrift stamps and Liberty bonds A note was left lert which read NOTE LEF LEFT Pretty slick We Ve saw you put the cash in the locker Signed The Black Hand A crude picture of a a. hand was also drawn at the foot f of the note The police poUce believe this burglary burI burglary bur bur- I glary t to have been the work of boys |