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Show I SAFECRACKERS I ARE AT WORK H ,1 H ' " H ! j They Operate on Two Sales and Get Away With Money and Jewelry H iVaaai. Suffers Heavy Loss Senate Saloon En- Hr ' terecS Blacksmith Shop Broken Into Professional H Yeggmen in the City. B " - H Sometime during last night safe H trackers made a raid In the city, suc- H ceedlng In opening at least-thrco safes H and getting plunder in cash and jewel- H Ty amounting to $300. The ojTlcers H have no clue as to the Identity of tho H men who turned tho trick, but It Is H "believed that there is a gang of prc- H fesslonal yeggmen in the city H The work of the robbers was not H discovered until this morning when B i k the places whore the safes were HJ . forced, were opened for business. The H places of operation were Stlmson's H Cafe on Grant avenue, between H Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth streets, the Senate saloon on Twenty- M ! fifth street, between Grant and Lln- M i coin avenues and the Ernstrom black- smith shop on Washington, near M Twenty-second. The Stlmson Bafe M was broken opon by breaking the nob M on the door of the safo and using an iron instrument of some kind to upset M the combination lock. From this safe H the men took ?G2.50 in cash, a dla- H rnond ring valued at $175 and a largo roll of papers, valuable to no one ex- H cept Mr Stlmson. The safo is a small H one and was easily broken into. It was not necessary to use any kind of M explosive, H Tho safo at the Senate saloon was H , not opened, as near as can be deter- mined, tho door being locked this morning, but the knob on the outside of tho door was broken off with a largo blacksmith hammer which was found in tho building near tho safo this morning. There are evidences of the ubo of glycerine to blow tho safo, but the experiment evidently failed and, the burglars hurrying away, left behind some of their tools The lock was Intact this morning The officers are of the opinion that if the door was unlocked the combination worked whon the door was closed It will ro-quire ro-quire the work of an export to opon the safe in its present condition, and it cannot bo known whether It waB opened by the burglars and looted of Its contents until It Is forced open Walter Browning, proprietor of the place, says that there was about $100 in tho safe last night The burglars securpd something over 53 from the money till, besides ransacking the place and taking a supply of wet goods. A noise was hoard In the saloon soon after midnight, the sound being much the same as that of a muffled pistol shot Tho officers were notified and thoy immediately repaired to tho place, finding the back door unlocked. The safe door being locked, the officers offi-cers did not discover that an attempt to crack It had been made. Mr Browning was called over the telephone tele-phone and told that the back door' of the saloon was open. He thought that it might have been left open through mistake and did no more than to ask his informant to lock It, He did not know the place had been looted loot-ed until this morning about 6 o'clock The officers followed suspicious characters, immediately after they had visited the Senate saloon, north along Lincoln avenue Into the vicinity vicin-ity of Twenty-fourth street, where trace of them was lost in tho dark-( dark-( ncBS. It was rcpoiled this morning that tho blacksmith shoD of Peter Ernstrom Ern-strom had been broken Into and tho safe cracked. There was nothing of value in the safe, so nothing was stolen. While Mr. "ErnBtrom had not missed any tools in the shop, It Ir quite ovldcnt that the hammer used In breaking the knobs from the safe doors was taken from his place. Tt Is probable, however, that the safecrackers safe-crackers aro the fellows who entered the Alvord second hand store on Grant avenuo at about 2 o'clock, yes-(erdav yes-(erdav morning and obtained the hammer ham-mer there. |