Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1888 — THE BURGLERS AGAIN AT WORK [ARTICLE]

THE BURGLERS AGAIN AT WORK

The gang of burglars who seem to make this place their habitst, were getting in their work last Sunday night, in a wholesale manner. The office of Frank Wolf & Co., lumber dealers, was broken into, and the safe broken open. There was no money left in .the safe but the small box, inside the safe,in which valuables are kept was found outside in the lumber yard, Monday. It contained some notes, which were not disturbed. The safe was drilled into and the lock broken in exactly the same manner J. J. Eiglesbach’s safe was opened,, a few: months ago. The thieves obtained, entrance into the building by breaking open thejjont door. On the same night B. F. Ferguson’s grain office was entered through a window and the money drawer broken open. The booty in this case was just three pennies. Even this large sum did not satisfy the rapacious burglars, and the office of Coeu & Paxton, hay and grain dealers, was broken open, but nothing worth taking was found by the thieves.