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Show I Preston Safes Blown. I i Burglars Break Into Depot and Store but get Little Booty. ! 1'hk.ston, Aug .) (special to The Hepubllcan.) On Tuesday night burglars burg-lars got In their work at Preston. James Smith's merchandise store was entered and the safe was blown to atoms. About $-..00 was taken. This safe was treated the same as those In Wellivlllc, soap being used around the edge of the door, and a small basin made of the same material was stuck to the upper center of the door. Nltro glycerine was poured In I which would naturally run down Into the cracks of the safe door. When Ignited, the work was done. The depot safe was blown open but nothing noth-ing was secured, the agent having banked the casli on the previous day. No soap was used in this case. A hole was bored near tho conblnatlon and tile liquid poured in. The sheriff with a posse of six men have been searching the surrounding country without a capture. Two suspicious looking men have been around the streets of Preston, Pres-ton, one a good sl.cd man, dark complexion com-plexion with a dark mustache; the other man Is short and smooth shaven. From the nature of the work ills thought that it was the same gang that visited Wcllsvllle a short time ago. |