Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1897 — Thieves Enter the Flour Mill. [ARTICLE]

Thieves Enter the Flour Mill.

Tuesday’s Daily, This morning, when the proprietors and employes of Stoner & Day’s flouring mill returned to their work, they found that the mill had been entered during the night, by one or more parties. They had evidently tried to open the office safe and also the desk, presumably in the search for money. They did not succeed in opening either desk or safe, nor would they have found any money had they done so, as it is not the custom of the firm to leave money in the building over night. The marauders left some evidences of their visit which showed that they were probably malicious kids rather than professional burglars, or even ordinarily experienced thieves. They went into the principal room of the mill and kicked holes in a large number of sacks of .flour they found there, the act being simply a piece of malicious mischief. They appear to have entered the building through a cellar window.