Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1897 — POSTOFFICE SAFE BLOWN. [ARTICLE]

POSTOFFICE SAFE BLOWN.

Michigan Robbers Secure $1,500 and Some Stamps at Omer. A party of bandits at an early hour Friday morning blew open the safe in the postoffice at Omer, Mich., and carried away about $1,500 in money and a quantity of stamps and valuable papers. The robbery occurred a few minutes after the village night watchman had passed the building in Avhieh the postoffice is located. At that time he noticed nothing unusual, but about twenty minutes later he was startled by a muffled explosion in the direction of the postoffice. The noise was heard by other citizens, and they hurriedly made their way into the building. The interior of the office was littered with the ruins of the safe,and papers. So quickly had the robbers worked that when people arrived at the scene of the robbery they had utterly vanished. Entrance into the building had been effected by prying open the door with chisels.