Typed as spelled and written
- Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year -  Number 176
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, November 25, 1931

STORE AND LAUNDRY PLANT
ENTERED DURING NIGHT

Former Burglarized Second Time
Since it Was Opened Only
Recently.

For the second time since it was opened recently, Scheiblich Bros.' new grocery store, corner Coleman street and Kunze avenue, was burglarized Tuesday night, while another place some distance from the downtown business section, the Model Laundry plant on commerce street also was entered.  Safes and cash drawers at both places were rifled, but little money was obtained.

Check at the Scheiblich store showed something over two cases of cigarettes, estimated at about 125 cartons, were missing.

Two suits, an overcoat and a sweater, also a little over $6 in cash, disappeared from the laundry.

Entrance to the store was obtained by forcing the screws securing the lock staple on the rear door, some kind of round instrumentt (sic) being used for this purpose, as indicated by dents in metal covering the wood work.  In the previous burglary of this place, iron bars were removed
from a rear window.

A large hammer owned by the store was found in front of the safes, apparently having been used to knock the dial off of one of them.  The other one had not been repaired since the previous burglary.  Both cash drawers also were broken into, but no money had been left in either these or the safes.

The laundry was entered by forcing open a window and the dial was
knocked off the safe.  A wrench not belonging to the laundry was found in the office this morning.

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