The Daring Lunch-Hour Heist in Richland

The most daring robbery ever perpetrated in Richland was pulled off Tuesday in broad daylight. The butcher shop, George Gress proprietor, was entered and over ten dollars in cash taken from the till. Mr. Gress, contrary to his usual habit, did not go home until after one o’clock for his lunch. The men must have kept close tab on his movements because they immediately proceeded to cut a large piece out of the screen door in front of the shop, unlatch the hook which fastened it and then made an easy entrance. About one-thirty Miss Sallie Davidson, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. M. P. Davidson, called at the market for meat. Two men were in the place and on her request for meat stated that the butcher had gone home to lunch but would be back directly. Miss Davidson left and the robbers must have made their get-away at once by the back door, after relocking the front entrance, as she came back in a little while and found the door closed and the butcher still absent. The boldness of the men makes the affair unique and Deputy Sheriffs Baxter and M. P. Davidson, who are on the trail of the men, think they will have little difficulty in locating them as Miss Sallie and several others who noted them as suspicious characters feel that they would be able to identify them if they see them again.