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Show FIVE MEN ROB FURNITURE STORE j i Quintet Blow Open Safe j Throw Aside All Valuables Except $15,000 Cash. 1 Chicago, March 14. Five armed robbers broke into the mail order branch of the Hartman Furniture company at 3919 Wentworth avenue today, blew open the office safe, tossed tos-sed out Its contents, threw aside valuable val-uable securities, discarded $40,000 in money orders, and escaped with $15.-000, $15.-000, the weekly pay roll of the company. com-pany. . i I The quintet worked with machine-like machine-like precision. A basement window furnlsbed them ingress. One remained re-mained outside and the othor four j attacked, bound and gagged a watch- I man. A second employe of the fur- j nlture company was surpjlsed on the . second floor and was bound, gagged ' and led to the basement Proceeding through the buildings the thieves waylaid a third watchman : and caried him also to the basement Thcu they atticked tho safe in the j office on tho second floor. The door was blown off with nitroglycerine. j |