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Show oo Arrn InrnS F0UNDAT WORK A bold attempt to rob the safe at the St. Louis gambling resort, corner Twenty-fifth and" Grant, yesterday morning, was frustrated when a Japanese Jap-anese boy, who is employed about the place, encountered two robbers at work and spread the alarm, frightening frighten-ing them away. The flight was so hurried that tho veggmen left their tools behind and the drill was found sticking In an inch and a half holo which had been bored in the safe door. Tho moans by which the men hoped to gnlu access ac-cess to tho safe was disclosed by the Jludlng of a quantity of nitroglycerine, a syringe for injecting the charge and the fuse for exploding the same. These wero round among the safebroakers' tools. That the safebroakers planned the job very carefully Is shown In the fact that they waited until after C o'clock In the morning, when George Burton, tho night watchman, leaves the place ror ins nouie. in uuhckui;; me ,o on Sunday morning the robbers ohoae, a time when the strongbox would contain con-tain the greatest sum of money. It must have been very shortly after G o'clock and very 0l after St Watchman Wright had lert tlie building build-ing that the men gained an entrance to tho Cralghaum & Peterson apart-mont apart-mont on tlie second floor by prying open the streot door with a "Jimmy." They had evidently not been at work very, long when Clem Rasmusson, a Janitor, went to the second floor. Ho had scarcely entered the room when he was confronted by ono of the rob-hors, rob-hors, .who pointed a revolver at his, head and ordered him to lie down on a table. An overcoat was then placed over his head and he was warned that tho ellghtest move on Mb part would bo the signal for some shooting. The yeggmon returned to Uiolr work on the saTo door, but a fow minutes Inter thp lapanexe portei ai rived to clean up the place, and missing the janitor, he. went up to the gambling i rooms in search of him. Tho boy was met at the door by one of the mon and found himself looking Into the front openlqg of an automatic revolver. revolv-er. He became so frightened that lu attempting: to descend the stairs ho fell a greater part of tho dlstanco. Believing that he would summon assistance as-sistance at once the robbors fled j from Uio building without even taking time to gather up their tools. These were taken possession of by the po- ! lice, who arrived a few minutes after the robbers had left the scene. They wero unablo to secure a trace of the safebreakers. Had they not been disturbed it Is very probable that the men would have been successful In blowing the safe and escaping with the contents, the principal item of which was $5,000 In silver, the proceeds of Saturday rtjght's operations. Janitor Rasmus-sen Rasmus-sen was able to give tho police a very tjood description of the two men and the officers are now working on several sev-eral good clues. |