In the early morning hours of Sunday, June 6, 1909, the jewelry store of N. E. Snyder at Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, was burglarized by a thief or thieves who entered the store through a relatively unknown window. Here’s how the theft was reported in the Lykens Standard, June 11, 1909:
SNYDER’S JEWELRY STORE ROBBED
Sunday morning when N. E. Snyder, jeweler and watch maker of east Main Street near Odd Fellows’ Hall, came down stairs, he found the upper and lower sashes of the window on the east side of the room adjoining his jewelry store on the south, removed. Examination of the show case in the store revealed the fact that four gold watches and about 48 gold rings, consisting of signet, band and children’s rings, valued at about $300 were missing. On the east side of the jewelry store and adjoining it within a few inches is a winding stairway leading to the photograph gallery on the third floor of the Wolcott building. Back of this stairway there is a vacant space between the Snyder residence and the Wolcott property of probably six or eight feet. The thief or thieves must have made a thorough examination of the premises as even old residents of that neighborhood did not know that there was a window on the east side of the room next to the jewelry store.
What time the robbery was committed is not definitely known, but it must have been between 1 and 3 o’clock Sunday morning, as members of the family were up until midnight and it starts to get light about 3 o’clock. Mr. Snyder has the numbers of the stolen watches and by this means may discover the robbers.
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From Newspapers.com.
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