Show r r POST sometime between midnight and two friary morning thieves effected an entrance ont ranco to tho the by cutting a hole through ono one of tho the panels in back door which enabled thorn them to reach in and turn tho the key in tho the lock and proceeded to gut the place tho the old fashioned safe was opened by listening to the drop of the tumblers and rind tho the contents which consisted of about 60 in silver a cash drawer containing 78 in gold and paper paper about 1000 in stamps and 12 registered lett letters ers wore were dumped into a gunnysack punny sack and carried away by the they proceeded with their plunder to tho the vicinity of the ice lee plant whore where they believed beli oved they would be cafe safe from interruption end and proceeded to open the cah cash drawer by pounding the door oil this proved their un doing for dave bryner night watchman for tho utah construction company heard the nolle noise and went over to 0 investigate slipping up on the thieves thieves quietly bryner flashed bis his electric torch in their faces and demanded to know waat baat they were do ing hie his answer was two shafa from the revolver revolvers of oi jhc thc startled sturt led robbers rob bere as they fled in the kness bry ner returned their fira fire but without effect not knowing of the loot of the post office and believing that an attempt had been made to damage the ice lee plant dave went to the whitmore home nearby and aroused vern and lee whitmore Whit moro arm arming ing themselves the boys proceeded aith ith bryner to the scene of tho the lai gaiters encounter with the robbers there they found the stamps bag of silver andi registered letters which the had dropped in making their getaway they also found a couple of sticks of dynamite some fuse and caps realizing from the ch character ameter of yie plunder that it came from some postoffice post office the boys came uptown and found that the postoffice post office here was the one that had bad been kicked in postmaster smith was telephoned for and further investigation disclosed more dynamite caps and fuse lying outside the hack back door showing the evident intent of the robbers to blow the safe if f they could not open it otherwise mr smith reported the robbery at once to the postal authorities who sent down an inspect 0 from salt lake A thorough checking up showed all clamps and registered mat mail 1 to be safe all that was missing being the 73 contained in tho cash drawer drawer which the thieves succeeded in n hanging onto postmaster smith Is is conga congratulating tu lating himself that his loss was no heavier as he hd banked on the day of the robbery |