Safe-Crackers Nabbed in Pasco After Richland Heist
Three men were apprehended in Pasco, Washington, suspected of orchestrating a professional burglary at the Richland post office.
Suspected of being veteran and professional safe-crackers, whose activities may have extended across the continent, three men are under arrest at Pasco, Washington, accused of cracking the post office safe at Richland recently and robbing it of its contents. The men are identified as 'Dutch' (John) Larson, Edward Connelly, and William Anderson.
“Suspected of being veteran and professional safe-crackers, whose activities may have extended across the continent.”
The era of the 'professional safe-cracker' traveling by rail between small Washington towns was a distinct period of frontier crime. It contrasts with the digital and remote nature of modern financial crimes that target small-town entities today.
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