Professional Safe-Crackers Nabbed in Pasco
A trio of traveling criminals accused of looting the Richland post office were apprehended by authorities after a spree of alleged continent-wide heists.
Suspected of being veteran and professional safe-crackers, whose activities may have extended across the continent, three men are under arrest at Pasco, accused of cracking the postoffice safe at Richland recently, and robbing it of its contents. They give the names of 'Dutch' (John) Larson, Edward Connelly and Wm. Anderson.
“Suspected of being veteran and professional safe-crackers, whose activities may have extended across the continent.”
Richland and Pasco are now bustling parts of the Tri-Cities, but in 1916 they were smaller transit hubs where itinerant criminals often hid among the transient railroad labor force. The mention of 'professional' safe-crackers highlights how early regional news covered the mobility of crime in the growing Inland Empire.
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