Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1916 — LARSH & HOKPINS DRUG STORE ROBBED [ARTICLE]

LARSH & HOKPINS DRUG STORE ROBBED

Store Entered Sunday Night and Gash Drawer Robbed of $25 or $30 — Two Under Suspicion. Larsh & Hopkins’ drugtsore was entered some time Sunday night and the cash drawer robbed of between $25 and S3O. The thieves had entered the back door of the store, having I pried off the lock. Evidently it was some one who was quite familiar with the store who did the job. After entering, the sneak thieves started opening all the drawers behind the counter, starting at the I south end of the building. The pro-1 prietors do not know how much I money was in the drawer but estimate it at between $25 and S3O. Nothing else was taken so far as the own-1 ers know. Devere Zea, who works at Barnes’ I restaurant, saw two men in the alley | at the rear of the store during the evening and was close enough to see I how they were dressed, and thought I that he recognized them. The two J under suspicion have been in trouble I before and it is probable that they I are the guilty ones. If such proves I to be the case it is probable that they will get the usual sentence.