A thief entered the home of Mrs. John W. Cline on East Depot Street early Saturday night, opened all doors on the lower floor of the home, ransacked bureau and dresser drawers and left the house with a small amount of cash.
Mrs. Cline and her daughter, Mrs. Ernest Hicks, who lives with her mother, were away from home Saturday afternoon, Mrs. Hicks leaving about 5:30. When they returned about 6:30 or 7 o’clock they found every door on the first floor of the house open. While their suspicions were aroused they missed nothing and for a few minutes did not make a search of the house.
However, when they found the doors leading into the sun parlor open and realized that they could not have been blown open, they made an investigation and found that the screen over one window had been cut. They hurried back into the front hall of the home and found a front door through which they had entered and which they had locked from the inside, open again, so they made a search of the second floor and found where the robber had been.
Every drawer in the house had been opened and a small amount of cash, about 50 cents, had been taken. Jewelry which had been left in drawers and jewelry cases were not taken.
Neighbors advised Mrs. Cline that they saw a man leave the house about 7:30 but as he left by the front door their suspicions were not greatly aroused. It is believed the man was in one of the second floor rooms when Mrs. Hicks and Mrs. Cline entered the home and he made his getaway while they were examining the back part of the house.
It is reported that several homes on East Depot Street have been entered recently, and police are trying to find a man who fit the description they have of the man seen leaving the Cline home. The man is believed to be familiar with the arrangement of houses in that part of the city.
From page 2 of The Concord Times, Monday, Jan. 25, 1926
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