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Show "ROBBERY OF THE TICKET OFFICE .. The city ticket ottlce of the Harrl-iiian Harrl-iiian lines lu the Orpheum building was entered some? time between 'J , o'clock Saturday nighl and early yes- i.rday morniLg. and the entire receipts re-ceipts of the day'.- business. amounting amount-ing to about was taken from the safe. l-tective Joe Jones of the Oregon Short Line, Irom Salt Lake City, was detailed to solve the mystery and apprehend ap-prehend the robbers, -md he with l'1-tective l'1-tective Tender of the Oc.len force has been working hard on the cae since yesterday morning. The j.i'cullar pun of the whob- af- , fair Is the fact that the money was taken from the sate with no daniace whatever to the two heavy steel d'ors of the vault. The whole thlim had the appearance of being perpetrated by some one who knew the combination combina-tion or discovered it by persevering i flort. or th - doors cf the fate hail not been properly closed after the day's business, and eafllj opened by the robbers, i Neither the front door., the ot-llee. ot-llee. leading to tb, street. Vnor the windows were forced or broken in any way. so thai it Is assumed that the persons committing th" crime ha I other means of entry besides the us nal forced entrance. This afternoon a warrant was issued is-sued by the detectives workln-: on the case c-hargn D-nitnlcl: Vhlt the janitor of the building with grand larceny, .luet what oxldnee the oitl-cers oitl-cers may have against White n n known. White s an Italian and has been employed as Janitor for about five months Cr. C. McPeot who Is In charge of the ticket off ce, states that It Is l'ke-ly l'ke-ly ho forgot to l"ck the saf on Saturday Sat-urday night. White had freo access 1o the ticket office and it is believed that be noticed the unlocked afe an 1 took out the money. There was In the safo at the time of the robbery $30-1 In casii and about I $non In checks. Paxnient oi these checks was stopped bv the detectives and the ticket agent and it Is thought thnt the inaney l..st will l.e recovered recov-ered The officers nre vrrv discreet in the matter of giving out information, bu' 1 there Is a report from outside ein b-s that the detectives have already b- rated the money and that tiie loss will amount lo nothing t,) tne company or to the agent. |
