Safe Cracked, Bloodhounds Baffled in Newport Burglary

The furniture store of A. Ray Williams was entered by burglars on Tuesday night. The combination of the safe was worked and over $100 in gold and currency taken from the strong box. Nothing else in the store was bothered.

An entrance was gained to the building by breaking in a window on the north side of the store in the annex to the main building. The doors between the two buildings were unlocked, so it was an easy matter to get into the main salesroom where the safe was located.

Tracks were discovered in the snow leading from the window towards Spokane avenue, and the suspicions of the officers were aroused on that account. Marshal Mills sent to Spokane for Harry Draper and his bloodhounds to assist in ferreting out the perpetrator of the crime. The sleuth and one of his dogs arrived on the Great Northern at noon and the scent was taken up about one o'clock.

The dog worked nicely in the hard snow, but the scent was poor where the snow had melted. The dog was given two trials and each time ended up in the Halford addition.

The work of the dog was watched by probably 100 persons who followed Draper and the animal over the route taken. At the start and for some distance the novel method of man hunting was watched by possibly 300 people.

The officers have not made any arrests as yet, but think that matters will possibly come to a focus in a few days and that they will then have sufficient evidence to warrant them in making an arrest.