| Show I 1 THIEVES MAKE RAID ON CHICAGO postoffice POST OFFICE drill through steel floor of the vault and beaure 8 4 worth of 0 stampa the most daring and ingenious rob bery of a public dinst cution ever per pet rated in chicago was successfully accomplished at some t ne tie between saturday night and su day morning when postage stamps to the value of 74 were abstracted from the stamp vault of the cb ch cago postoffice post office by oper acors who bored a passage through steel floor in order to reach their plan der if they had bad calculated tl air d stance six feet to the west from the point where they worl ed tl ey undoubtedly would have can cart t id d off nearly 40 in cash and soo 00 in stamps the burglars plan of operations was almost identical with that followed by the robbery oft of tl levault e vault odthe of the selby smelting company near dear san francisco several monti a ago the burglars secured entrance un der the bu iding wing and by digging trenches and tunnel ng fig through crois cross walla walls gained a point immediately un der the vault the steel sheets form ing the floor of the iron room were bored a hole of sufficient a ze to admit the body of a man was made and through th a one of the robbers passed the plunder to one or more accomplices below the plunder was caned ca ned ried near ly feet through the trench under the building and then loaded into a wagon that was waiting in an alley behind the bu iding |
