Thieves Stole Safe from Penter Store, Oct. 21, 1926

Asheville, Oct. 18—Removing bars from the windows with the aid of a wrench, yeggmen entered a Pender store in one of the suburban business sections of Asheville last night and after smashing three locks on the front door rolled the safe out, loaded it onto a truck and carried it away.

This robbery, which offices describe as the boldest attempted here in several months, netted the yeggmen nearly a thousand dollars in cash and also resulted in the loss of valuable accounts and papers.

Editor’s Note: In the 1920s, yeggmen was a term used to refer to safecrackers who used explosives to open safes and locks.

From page 2 of the Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Oct. 21, 1926

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