Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1908 — WHEATFIELD POST-OFFICE WAS BURGLARIZED [ARTICLE]

WHEATFIELD POST-OFFICE WAS BURGLARIZED

Burglars Blow Open Safe and Get $l5O in Money and S2OO Worth of Stamps, and Escape. r

Burglars entered the Wheatfield postoffice Wednesday night, blew open tne safe, stole cash to the amount of about $l5O and stamps to the value of more than S2OO and made their escape, leaving no clue whatever that might lead to their discovery. Simon Fendig, the druggist at that' place, was at his store until about { 11 o’clock and the robbery occurred after that hour; Several persons living close to the postoffice recalled having heard three muffled reports of a discharge during the night, but all |

through it was shooting in the distance and paid no attention to it. The safe was completely demolished, and according to a party who talked with the Republican reporter, would make poor scrap iron. Parts of fire clay were found in about all the boxes of the office?. Louis Paulsen, the postmaster, had * purchased a draft for $195 and s nt to the postoffice department just the day before, and therefore the loss was not as heavy as it otherwise would have been.