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Show RATHER A SLICK BURGLARY. Some Bold, Bad Man Abstracts 8372.50 From . R. date's Office. One of the most adept burglaries committed com-mitted hereabouts was performed on E. R. Clute's coal office, on Main street last night, and resulted in a loss of $372.50 to Mr. Clute. Mr. Laron Cummings had just finished balancing cash, and had put the money and checks in a canvas bag, with the intention of placing the bag in Remington, Johnson & Co.'s safe. Before starting out with it, however, he ! remembered having occasion to step into the barber shop next door, and accordingly accord-ingly left the valuable parcel on the desk. He had been in the shop but a moment or two when it occurred to him that he had been somewhat careless in leaving the money so exposed, and he immediately hastened back to his office. It took him but a minute to discover that the bag with its contents was gone, and and he rushed around.almost bewildered, in search of it, but all to no purpose, for it had been effectually removed. Mr. Cummings fee'ls certain that the thief must have been watching him while he put the money away, and that on his leaving the office had popped in and out again with all possible haste. A great deal of the money was in checks, and Mr. Clute has notified the . banks not to pay any of them if presented, and by this means it is hoped the guiltv party may be traced up and caught. " - Mr. Clute was seen at a late hour today to-day and stated to a reporter that he had not yet succeeded in obtaining even a clue to the thief or the whereabouts of the missing money. |