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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