People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — EXPRESS OFFICE ROBBED. [ARTICLE]

EXPRESS OFFICE ROBBED.

The Thieves Had Keys to the Office ud the Safe, and Secure 97,000. Port Hubon, Mich., Dec. 21.—One of the boldest and most daring robberies that ever/occurred in this vicinity was. perpetrated at the Canadian express office at Sarnia Tuesday, when $7,000 were taken out of the safe in the office while the clerk was' at dinner. The robbers made good their escape, apparently without leaving a single tangible clew. Thomas Cook, Jr., agent of the company, has been sick abed for the last few days and the office was in charge of James McMahon. At 12:25 o’clock McMahon locked everything valuable in the office safe, which is an old-fashioned keylock affair, and after locking the front door went for his dinner. Upon his return, at 12i55, he found the door of the safe open with a key sticking in the keyhole and $7,000 in currency missing. The perpetrators of the robbery gained entrance through a rear door in the basement, which had been left open for the delivery of some coaL