Dynamite, Bloodhounds, and a Vanishing Safe Job in Kittitas
Two tramps blow open a creamery safe, rifle the contents, and elude bloodhounds by catching a train at a rural siding.
The safe in the Kittitas creamery was blown open with dynamite a few days ago by two tramps, and the contents rifled. Bloodhounds were immediately put on the trail, but they lost it at the railroad track at a small siding, and it is supposed the burglars got on a train that stopped there to pick up a car. Latest reports were to the effect they had not been captured.
“Bloodhounds were immediately put on the trail, but they lost it at the railroad track at a small siding.”
Rural creameries were the banks of their day, holding the cash from milk sales and payroll. The Kittitas case—dynamite, bloodhounds, and a clean getaway—reads like a Western, but it also shows how isolated Washington towns were before modern policing and forensics.
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