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Show THIEVES MAKE RAID ON CHICAGO POSTOFFICE. Drill Through steel Floor of the Vault and Secure 874,000 Worth of Postage Stamps. The most daring and ingenious robbery rob-bery of a public institution ever perpetrated per-petrated in Chicago was successfully accomplished at some time between Saturday night and Sunday morning, when postage stamps to the value of $74,610 were abstracted from the stamp vault of the Chicago postoffice by operators oper-ators who bored a passage through a 6teel floor in order to reach their plunder. plun-der. If they had calculated their distance six feet to the west from the point where they worked they undoubtedly would have carried off nearly $40,000 in cash and $800,000 in stamps. The burglars' plan of Operations was almost identical with that followed by the robbery of the vault of the Selby Smelting company near San Franciscd several months ago. The burglars secured entrance under un-der the building, and by digging trenches and tunneling through cross walls gained a point immediately un der the vault. The steel sheets forming form-ing the floor of the iron room wer bored, a hole of sufficient size to admit the body of a man was made, and through this one of the robbers passed the plunder to one or more accomplices below. The plunder was carried nearly near-ly 300 feet through the trench under the building and then loaded into a wagon that was waiting in an alley behind the building. |