$1,000 Stolen From Co-Op Safe - Money, Checks Taken During Lunch Hour

$1,000 Stolen From Co-Op Safe

Money, Checks Taken During Lunch Hour

Noon-hour theft of more than $1,000 In bills, coins and endorsed checks from an open safe in the Ann Arbor Co-Operative Society Store offices at 637 S. Main St. was reported to police Monday afternoon.

The theft represent the third in a series of closely similar riflings of open store safes reported in Ann Arbor within a three-month period and totaling about $15,000.

The two previous lunch-hour larcenies took place at the Calkins-Fletcher Drug Co. and the McLean grocery store.

William R. Wright, manager of the Ann Arbor Co-Operative, told officers the funds stolen were receipts from food sales that had been prepared for banking an placed temporarily in the safe.

Checks for about $948, endorsed for deposit, and cash amounting to $146; were put into the safe about 11 o'clock Monday morning by Donald Lane, an employe of the food store, who discovered the theft shortly after 2 o'clock.

Police said the building was so arranged that the thief could have entered unseen so long as no employe was within the office itself, which opens both onto a storeroom and the front of the store.