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Show about the iolke fdation. Naturally' enough both men decamped and all pearch for them was in vain. Iasl night the residence of C. S JVhlner, -i'S Grant avenue, within a Llock of the jolice station, wns r..hbed. The thleve6 gained an entrance en-trance through the tld' door and completely ransacked the house from cellar to garret. Forty dollars was l iken from a small safe kept In the house and $2 iu taken from a pantry belf. In addition to this money, one Hack overcoat, three vesU. two pairs of dark trousers and some, leminlne aparcl was taken. The police were notified of the burglary early this morning, but obtained ob-tained no clew to Hjc robbers until about ?:;:), when the stolen .clothing was found tucked in the coal chute of the police station This chute protrudes pro-trudes from the prison cellar on the south side of the building. All of the Raiments taken from the Rhlner home were there for the Inspection of the police, but the thieves had not been generous enough to leave the ,M.cfrs the ft'- which thi-y had secured se-cured In cash The thieves left no note pinned by YVillumn and Wheeler, bueh t-uch an epigilf would have been superfluous. The police understood vho had ecnt them the loot, even If they did not appreciate the KlfL A companion of the two men, Ed Fern, is now beln held nt the city prison for stealing several nult9 of clothing, and some of the police aro of the opinion that Williams and Wheeler, after burlarlzlui; the Uhiner home, came to the jollcc station and Wt the clothing In the hope thnt It would be found by Fern while at work In lhe cellar. With a complete change of clothing. Fern might have been able to have walked out of the police sta tion without being recognb.ed by the men on guard a6 a prisoner. It Is possible that the men promised Fern that they would secure a change of clothing for him and leave them in tao coal chute. TWO DAMNS AND CLEVER RASCALS A cunDing prison cscap? and subsequent sub-sequent police-defying robbery that would do credit to the genius of Raffles, Raf-fles, has given the pride of the local police force a severe Jolt, and. what is worse, the daring crooks who perpetrated per-petrated the double ofiense against the law and tho d'.gnity of the city have made geod their escape. George Williams and R. Wheeler. tso cx-convicts who are believed to have long unsavory criminal records, were serving thirty-day sentences In the city prison. Williams was convicted con-victed of stealing an overcoat and Wlu'eler of vagrancy. Yesterday morning, when the guard entered tho prison and called for the trusties to come to the door. Williams and Wheeler also made their appearance While these prisoners were by no means considered trusties by tho police, po-lice, the guard was not aware of the fact and took them out of the prison with him to work. One of the men was directed to go to tho city library and see what work there was to be done there, and the other was detailed to do some chores |