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Show SMASH GLASS; STEAL PISTOLS Two Thieves Break in Display Dis-play Window of G-. A. , Lowe Co. Two largo plate glass windows of the George. A. Low company store on Washington avenue were broken last night by a pair of thieves who carried car-ried away two pistols, one an automatic auto-matic and the other a revolver, and ono hunting knife. John W. Fisher, nlfiht watchman, rf-.-pr" reporteil to C. H. Turner, department m.in.iRer, that he heard a crash and ran swiftly to the. front of the store In time to see figures running toward "Twenty-third street. Ho called the police. Investigation disclosed th thieves had scratched a circle on the window and then broke out the glass with a heavy object. The fact that they picked heavy calibre weapons, the favorites of bandits ban-dits and stick-up men. was regarded police and store owners as signlfl- ant. The window froin which the weapons wea-pons were taken was th big ' south window which had been trimmed with trophies ;md articles of the hunter. Patrolman L.. E. Mellhollen had Just' i-ached the Intersection of Twenly-fourth Twenly-fourth street and Washington avenue and was walking around the north west corner when he. heard the crash. Ho said that he looked down th ptreet and saw a man running north along the cast side of Washington ave-nue, ave-nue, who turned east on Twenty-third Street. The patrolman ran toward Twcnty-thirj street. but when he reached the corner the man had disappeared dis-appeared he reported Sergeant C. E. Noble accompanied by detectives Immediately re sponded to the call and searched the neighbor- I hood, but failed to find any trace of the burglars. That there were two Is indicated by two holes In the window about nine fCBt apart, according to the police. oo |