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Show J. C. PENNY STORE WAS ROBED OF 1000 MIES Some party or parties entered the J. X Penney Company store between I twelve o'clock Saturday night and seven o'clock Monday morning and took therefrom a bag of coin containing contain-ing more than 1000 pennies, five watches, twelve watch chains, i, and I perhaps some other articles. The scheme for getine in the Rtorn ! was a clever one, and It must have , been somewhat hazardous. The par-, par-, ties entered the building from underneath. under-neath. That is, they centered from -the sewer where there Is an 'optming i large enough for a man to crawl ; through But in order to reach the Penney store by the sewer route" it is necessary to travel quite a distance through the bad water under buildings build-ings and in darkness. No matter whether they went with the current , or up stream it Is some distance. Having to travel the route they did they had no idea of carrying away large bundles of luggage, but were evidently on the lookout for money. They broke open the cash drawer, but failed to find the coveted riches. Then down under the cash register they found a bag containing 1000 pennies. They doubtless thought this a rich catch and must have, been keenly disappointed dis-appointed when they got off to themselves them-selves to count the money. ' Immediately after discovering the burglary B. E. Willis, manager of the J. C. Penney Company, offered a reward re-ward of 50 for the arrest and convic-tion convic-tion of the guilty parties. . |