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NUMB HR 40■II—III 11». ................................Woolworth and Hueser Establishments’lt;Blown.nev(iOne Hundred Dollars Secured at Former Place But OnlyitThree Dollars at Latter—Outside ProfessionalsSuspected of the Work.f,L-I-V!11OIt*sy* **For tfa# first time in many years high explosives were tiled in tin* pc*?* petration of robberies in Fort Madison Saturday niuht* Th# safe of theHueser saloon at 11!!* Maple Street was blown at about midnight amisome three or four dollars taken.Tho Woolworth Five and Ten cent store safe was erscked about 2:3** Sunday morning and a little ovwr $ I no taken. The police believe the work to he that of out of -town pro fessiotials. No arrests have been made.Alt hough several residents afterwards recalled hearing the explosions when the safes were blown theauthorities were unaware of tin* burglaries until early Sunday morning when a Santa Fe night man, returning from his work, passed the Hueser saloon and saw the rear windowIng he re they followed the sameme thod as at the saloon, forcing the window until the catch broke, stepping in over a display counter ofart teles. The safe is kept on aine/xanine floor in the rear of thebuilding, stands about two feet high and is hidden freon view by th©change counter in front although theback of the safe is directly in front of a hack window. Noattempt at drilling this safe are shown. The crack of the door had been soaped to retain the nitroglycerine (soup), tho force of the charge blowing thedoor completely from the safe. Th©metal money box was removed.it* | open, a ladder leaning against the building, and other signs of breaking and entering. While the chiefI of police and others were looking r j over the ground at the saloon ther*.e.A.bir8.II.Urit;report came to the Central station of the finding of the broken strong box of the Woolworth safe in the rear of the llette yard at 7 27 Third street. That both deeds were confront ted by the same parties or members of the same gang is shown bytraces which they left behind.Cutting across lots to the Uette yard, the robbers squatted on the grass, broke the box, pocketed the money and left. Along the next morning Master Jack Thompson of El Paso, who is visiting at the llette home, was out in the yard and came across the broken box, surround©** by some letters, money sacks and 158 pennies, loo of them in wrappers.Professional*?I lie Hueser Sale.d. i»s-li-Mrg. J. J. Schneidermeier of 1400 Second street, the residence in the rear of the saloon, recalls hearing a report similar, to that of a muffledAlthough both jobs were apparent*ly cleanly made there were enoughtraces left to form a meagre picture of the robbers, and furnish sufficient, reason for one couple of men to he already followed to a town a hundred miles away. However there are a few things which stand out to mark the incidents as no work of local amateurs; the souping of the safediwit'u vi n in r i I v iltwin with ia
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Fort Madison Weekly Democrat
Fort Madison, Iowa, US
Wed, May 15, 1912
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