Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1911 — GOOD LOOT FOUND IN SAFE [ARTICLE]

GOOD LOOT FOUND IN SAFE

Postoffice Robbers at Swayzee Net $425 in Cash and Stamps. Marion, Inci., July 28—Tho theft of $275 in cash and $l5O in stamps from the postofllce at Swayzee, ten miles south of here, was not discovered until mining, when Miss Myrtle Hardesty, a clerk, went on duty for the day. The robbers forced the rear door of the room with c.owbars they had stolen from the Clover Leaf depot. The safe was drilled and the doors forced w<th nitroglycerin. A wet blanket thrown on the safe muffled' the sound •»f the explosion. There is no clew to the thieves.