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BURGLARS IN CROWLAND
Two Houses and Cheese Factory Entered-Money, etc., Stolen
[People’s Press, 22 August 1905]
An unusual number of burglaries and thefts have been committed throughout the county lately, and it behooves property owners to be on their guard.
Monday night last week the cheese factory was entered for the second time lately, but on this occasion the thieves failed to make a haul.
The same night Alex Hurst’s house in the same locality was broken into and a watch and razor carried away.
The burglar was heard moving around by the head of the house, who supposed it was a member of the family entering, and called down that he would find a pie in the pantry.
On Tuesday night Mr. H. Egerter’s house near Brookfield Station was entered and a purse containing between $15 and $20 stolen. The burglars secured an entrance by breaking a pane of glass in the parlor, thus enabling them to unfasten the window and raise it. The purse was taken out of the bedroom in which Mr. Egerter was sleeping. Some in the neighborhood have suspected an Italian who recently worked for Mr. Egerter of being the thief, but this Mr. Egerter desires to flatly contradict. He says the Italian was a hard-working, honest man, and the last one he would suspect of the theft.
A few days’ previous two men came to the house, one of whom carried a revolver. Under pretext of wanting to do some mending with a needle they almost forced themselves into the house, and it is now thought possible they were on a prospecting tour, with the burglary in view. Other than this suspicion there is not the slightest clue to the identity of the thieves.
A good dog is about the best protection against night prowlers. They generally find out where dogs are kept and give such places a wide berth.
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