The Fur Vaults That Were Not Vault Enough
Burglars tunneled through brick, scaled a bridge, and carted off $5,500 in furs from Seattle’s Hudson Bay Fur Company.
Seattle—Burglars Friday night stole furs valued at $5,500 from the store and factory of the Hudson Bay Fur Company. Digging through a brick wall, scaling a bridge and prying open iron doors, the burglars are supposed to have hauled the plunder away in a wagon, into which they dropped it on the street behind the store.
“Digging through a brick wall, scaling a bridge and prying open iron doors, the burglars are supposed to have hauled the plunder away in a wagon...”
The Hudson Bay Fur Company heist reads like a modern caper film: a wall breach, a bridge scaled, a wagon get-away. It also reminds us that retail theft and organized burglary are not new anxieties.
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