Macon, Ga., Feb. 19—Dannenberg department store officials late today after what they termed a “careful investigation” declared that the police who entered their establishment Sunday night in search of burglars engaged in a gun battle between themselves and their reflections in the big mirrors in the store. Officials further declared that there were no burglars in the store at the time.
Bullets shattered several hundred dollars worth of mirrors in addition to damaging much wearing apparel. A light was burning in the rear of the store when the police arrived and as they entered the second floor, facing a number of mirrors, their shadows in the soft darkness presumably had the appearance of burglars moving about the store, officials said.
From the front page of The Monroe Journal, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 1922
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