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Show SAFE BLOWN' OPEN BY THUGS Safecrackers bioko inlo a safo last : night al the Rlversidp mill, near Ogdon Og-don rlvnr, that nas already unlocked and that could hao been entered b simply turning the handle on tho outside out-side of tho safe door. Whon the employes of the Riverside River-side mill camo to work this morning they discovoicd that the safo had ' boon tampered with An investigation disclosing tho "fact that tho dial and knob on the front of the aafe door had been broken off with a blunt instrument. in-strument. The knob used for turning I tho dial of the combination to the I safe was changed. Tho disappointment of the safe- ' blowors was made knowu by an inscription in-scription on a piece of paper found hanging to the handle of the safe door which lead "Tho peto 5s open." I This indicates, under the interpret- I ation of the chief detective of tho ! city, that after they had gone to the j trouble to crack the safe, they had discovered that It was not locked j This note also Indicates that there j are other safecrackers iu tho cllv and that the- would nndorntand the code "tho peto 'is open," if they i should happen along before morn- j ing The proprietors of the Riverside mill otat that they never leavo money values in tho safe and that they j keep the ault open to save those i who are inclined to break safes the trouble. The safe crackers of last eenlng were too donse, however, to notico that the safe was unlocked Tracks leading to a rear window, which was not locked, lend tho officers of-ficers to believe that the thieves on-tored on-tored the building through tho window. |