Cracksmen Drilled the Safe and Vanished Toward the Water
Professional burglars breached Bremerton's post office near the navy yard, hauled a 125-pound strongbox over a wire screen, and likely escaped by boat.
Bremerton — The post office of this city, situated in a building close to the Puget Sound navy yard, was entered Friday night by professional cracksmen, who drilled the safe and took away its strong box containing $2,000 worth of stamps, a diamond ring valued at $250 and nearly $200 in cash. The box, weighing 125 pounds, was hoisted carefully over the high wire screen of the office, and it is supposed they carried it away to a launch in the water two blocks distant.
“The box, weighing 125 pounds, was hoisted carefully over the high wire screen of the office and it is supposed carried away to a launch in the water two blocks distant.”
A safe drilled, a heavy strongbox hoisted over a fence and a getaway by water: the Bremerton burglary reads like a heist film, but it was local crime news in a navy town. The story still rhymes with modern concerns about security at federal facilities and the vulnerability of small-city post offices.
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