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s.VICK SCHEUER HOME ENTERED FRIDAY AFTERNOON.Were Discovered by Carrier Boy for Evening Paper, Who Gave Alarm.A bold pair of housebreakers were discovered while in the act of prowling the home of Nick Scheuer and George Snyder, at 718 Water street, yesterday afternoon, by the Carrier boy for an evening paper. They gained entrance by cutting a screen door, and secured three, diamond rings, the property of Mrs. Charles McGraw of Butte, Montana, a daughter of Mr. Scheuer. The burglars were in the act of searching Mrs. McGraw’s trunk, when that lady, and Mrs. Snyder, who lives in the other part of the house, returned from down town, and when the carrier boy saw them. Mrs. Snyder saw but one of the men, but she nervily grappled with him. He pretended that he had come to the house to help catch the burglars, saying; “There is some one in the house, and got away.Had Lookout.While one man was prowling the house, another stood in Ole Guilick-siad’s blacksmith shop, the next door north, and watched.the house to see that on one approached, but did not particularly attract the attention of the men In. the shop. Gulliclcstad and an apprentive boy In the shop, both gave good descriptions of the man they saw in the shop, and their descriptions tally with that given by Mrs. Snyder.Jerry Hoyer, delivery man for the pop factory, saw the other man as he ran away, and says he is positive that he can identify him. He gave a pretty good description of the man be saw. He says he has seen the man before;According to the best descriptions furnished the police, the robbery was committed by two men, one of whom wore gray trousers, a pink short, with narrow stropes if any at all, and a dark soft hat. The other man wore a light colored suit, and a straw hat. The man with the pink shirt was of medium height, and rather heavy set. Several officers are working on the case .and results are expected soon.The case is the queerest, in many respects, that has confronted the department for a long time. In most features, it bears every earmark of being an “inside job, for the burglars knew just where to look for the key to Mrs. McGraw 's trunk, and where to look for the rings when they got into the trunk. Further, they knew just where to And a hatchet, with which to cut a screen door to gain entrance.Another factor which makes it seem that the culprits were well acquainted, with the family, was the fact that Wednesday Mrs. Scheuer received several hundred dollars as her share of the proceeds of the. sale of a . farm to which she was one of the heirs This money, however, had been placed in the bank.But only one of the men who saw tha robbers run away when detected, recognized either of the men as any one he had ever seen before, and he did not pretend to say that the man was any one he had ever seen in that particular neighborhood. In many ways, the case is the most baffling one in the aunaifa of Waterloo.
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Waterloo Semi Weekly Courier
Waterloo, Iowa, US
Tue, Jul 12, 1910
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