Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1906 — HOUSE ENTERED AND MONEY STOLEN. [ARTICLE]

HOUSE ENTERED AND MONEY STOLEN.

Another new sensation to disturb the equanimity of ouy people came to light Tuesday afternoon. It was a case of honse breaking in which the house breaker got away with the goods. The victims of the robbery were Mr. and Mrs Abe Simpson, whose residence is on Cherry street, in the northeast part DTtown.

The robbery occured some time between one and two o'clock in the afternoon, but was not discovered until some hour later. Mrs. 1 Simp son went out with Mrs. J. C. Passons, to ride up to see the 1 big dredge. She locked all the doors carefully and deposited the key of the front door in an accustomed hiding place outside, for Mr. Simpson, when he came back which he did about two o’clock. After Mrs. Simpson, came back she had occasion to use a little change and looked on a bureau where she had left a little but found it gone. Then she looked in a drawer where they regularly kept their money, and found it all gone as vel as $3 50 left in another place. A heavy gold ring, the property of their son Charley, was also missing.

A few old coins of small denominations, and two 10 cent war time “shin plasters,” kept as curiosities, were not taken. Neither was a gold watch belonging to Mrs. Simpson nor a silver one belonging to Abe. From which it is evident that the thief was enough of a professional to avoid carrying away anything which could afterwards be easily identified. The amount of cash He found was $19.50, in all. The sum though not very large was all the ready money they had left to carry them over to the next pension day, Abe beingino longer able to work; and they feel the loss quite severely.

Investigation showed that the thief had got into the house by raising a window, the only one which was left unfastened. It was a side window, and visible from the street, though few persons pass that way at that time of day. There is another house just over the fence, but just now it is vacant. The thief evidently left through the back yard, as the chicken park gate had been forced open and the chickens let out, the hinge being broken.

There is no reliable clue to the thief, further than that a stranger evidently a bill distributor, sat under a tree, across the street, when Mrs. Simpson left the house, and saw her go away.

i However Abe thinks some party more familiar with the locality got away %ith his cash.