Store's Tools Used in $1,200 Burglary

Creator

Preview

Identifier

20121670

Description

Burglars - who made use of some handy tools - garnered $1,200 in cash and 267 postal money order blanks by cracking safes Saturday night at a hardware store and postal substation. The burglary was discovered Sunday morning. The intruders broke through a concrete roof at Westcliff Center. Prying open the safe, they took $912. They forced open a door in a partition to get into the substation. Detective N. E. Walker said the knob was knocked off the postal safe, but the tumblers didn't fall. So the burglars then used a chisel and sledge hammer to pry loose the safe door and got $288.73. Store Owner A. J. Taylor said the burglars took the sledge and pinch bars from the store wall to accomplish their mission. The intruders made no bones about their night's work, Taylor said. They scattered stamps over the floor, treading on them. They might also have taken some higher denomination stamps, Taylor noted after talking to postal inspectors. "They beat the back door to death leaving the building. It looks like a soupbone," the owner said as he surveyed the damage.

Archival Date

1958-08-10

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-88

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

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Subjects

Burglars; Detectives; Safes