The Great Harrison Street Heist

A brace of daring burglars with a keen humor and the aid of a small boy established themselves by committing a burglary early yesterday morning which, for coolness and daring, leads all other efforts in the 'jimmy' line that has been seen in Seattle for years. The victims were George F. Moyer, Isaac A. Swegle and John Dixon, doing business under the firm name of Moyer, Swegle & Co., whose grocery store at the corner of Harrison and Warren streets was made poorer about 2 o'clock Saturday morning by the loss of about $100 worth of their most select provisions, cigars, tobacco and cutlery. These goods the humorous rascals, after taking time to drink all the soda pop they wanted, deliberately carried out the back way and loaded into the firm's delivery wagon standing in a barn in the rear. After making a good load and coolly harnessing the firm's horse to the wagon, they drove quietly out of the yard past the house without ever arousing any one of the many living in the upper floor of the store. Subsequent discovery of their tracks showed that they drove out to Harrison street and eventually reached a deep canyon east of the Bigelow addition, where they cached their stolen plunder in a wall tent already standing and evidently prepared for that purpose. The horse, badly used up, was driven to a distance off near Queen Anne hill and turned loose, finally fetching up at William Lindsley's residence at 3 o'clock in the morning.