Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-12-15 | Page 18 | Robbers Hammer down an Iron Door after Boring through Two Layers of a Brick Wall

I TWO LAIRS OF A BRICK WALL Amateur robbers dug and drilled and I plowed tbelr way into the offices of the 1 Consolidated Wagon & Machine com- ll pany, Twenty-third and Washington, I last nightrand escaped with $30 which 'i had been placed in the safe Friday night after banking hours, f According to the investigation of , tho police, the robbers entered the 1 , basement by removing the grate and 1 closing it after them, and breaking the ', window loading into the lavatory. They i hammered their way through two lay- j ers of brick wall separating them from 2' the office and struck tho back of the I' safe. Mistaking the safe for a steel I lined wall, they gave that plan up and pounded in the iron door with a sledge hammer. The safe was unlocked, but the vault doors wore pounded off with drills and a sledge hammer. A coal chisel was used in the preliminary work of breaking break-ing the hinges. It is thought that, tho robbers did at least two hours heavy section-hand work before acquiring the $30 in the safo vault. Police Chief T. E. Browning, Sergt. O. IT. Mohlman and Detective J. L. Hobson have investigated the scene. No arrests have been made. It is generally thought that tho robbery rob-bery was done by novices.