Three Break-ins at One Hardware Store—and an Armed Holdup in the Lumber Yards

Some time Friday night of last week the store of the Reid Hardware Company was entered and burglarized. Entrance was secured by breaking out a window light in the rear room. About $65 worth of goods were missing the next morning, including four revolvers, about fifty pocket knives, a razor, magnifying glass and other small articles. An attempt was made to work the combination of the safe, but did not succeed. No clue has been found to indicate who the criminals are. This makes the third time that the Reid Hardware Co. has been burglarized since its establishment in Newport.

Monday evening about 6 o'clock Ralph Kennedy, who is employed by the Pend d'Oreille River Navigation Co., was held up while coming through the lumber yards and relieved of his money. Luckily he had but $2.80 with him, and forked it over as gracefully as he could under the persuasion of the muzzle of a revolver. The holdup man compelled Ralph to walk back into the yards about a block with him and then bade him good night with a "much obliged."