Smithfield, May 8—Burglars entered the bank of Four Oaks Wednesday night and made a fruitless effort to open the vault according to a telephone message received here yesterday.
The attempted burglary was not discovered util yesterday morning when it was found that the combination on the door of the vault had been blown off. When the combination broke, a safety device on the inside of the vault locked making it impossible for the thieves to get the money. It is thought that the deed was committed about 3 o’clock in the morning because an explosion was heard about that time but the report was thought to a gunshot and so no attention was paid until the robbery was reported.
If the burglars had been successful I securing the money, the depositors would not have lost a cent, said D.W. Lambro, the cashier of the ban, owing to the fact that the bank carries insurance against burglary.
There is no clue as to the identity of the thieves, they having made their escape without being seen, but they are thought to be the same yeggmen who broke into the Citizens Bank at Calypso on Tuesday night and got away with between $2,000-$3,000 in cash.
From the front page of the second section of the Goldsboro News, Sunday, May 9, 1926
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