Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1911 — CAR FRIGHTENS ROBDERS [ARTICLE]

CAR FRIGHTENS ROBDERS

Owner of BuHding Says Government Must Furnish Strong Boxes. Marion, Ind., Nov. 24. —The safe in the postoffice at Van Buren was blown, but the robbers failed to get either money or stamps. The heavy outer door of the safe was blown to pieces and the Inside door was cracked, but the door to the recept containing the money and as not damaged. Sheriff Tony George is cf the opinion that the robbers were frightened away after the second explosion by an interurban ear whicji passed through the' town. Discovery of the robbery was made by W. J. Jordan, the postmaster. The office has been repeatedly robbed and the safe cracked so often that Henry Whitecotton who owns the building in which the postcffice is located, and who has been renting safes to the government, says that hereafter the government will have to furnish Its own safes. Mr. Whitecotton is out S2OO as a result of the damage done to the safe.