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bheir namesakes, both boys.The safe in P. Mulder’s general store was blown into atoms with nitroglycerine about 3:30 Thursday morn- c ing and about $25 in cash secured. 'c The burglars were caught at their c work by J. A. Gartland and family but 1 succeeded in escaping before an alarm could be given or an officer called. ' About 2:30 Thursday morning an explosion was heard and commented upon by Night Operator Dodds and lt;a number of other persons down town who for various reasons happened to i be awake but no one took the trouble to investigate its source or meaning. , About 3:30 o’clock another explosion occurred which awakened the familyIof J. A. Gartland who reside above the State bank across the street from the Mulder store and from the window Mr. Gartland saw the burglars at work. Hastily he went out the back way and up an alley so as not to alarm probable watchers of the thieves to the Ideal restaurant where he was joined by P. Minmaugh and a moment later Night Policeman De Lange was found and the trio started in haste for the scene of the burglaryt • |but escape had been made before the spot was reached. Mrs. Gartland and son had been watching and they• isaw a tall man and a short man leave the premises and start off northeast. Two trains were in town about to depart, one in each direction and the crowd which had gathered started for the railway yards to cover that
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Alton Democrat
Alton, Iowa, US
Sat, Sep 07, 1901
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