Safe, Recovered From Brook, Owned By N. J. Food Co.

Austin Walsh, district manager of the New Jersey Food Company stores, identified the Hall safe recovered from the Lawrence Brook at the Ryder’s Lane bridge yesterday as the type of safe stolen from the company’s store in Milltown recently and similar to one stolen from the Red Bank store of the company Saturday night of last week.

The manager of the Red Bank store will be called upon to identify the safe some time today. This type of safe is similar to that used in all New Jersey Food Company stores. Chief of the County Detectives, Ferd David, this morning stated that there was little doubt in his mind but that the same gang that stole the Milltown safe is responsible for the Red Bank robbery.

So far as can be learned, the thieves entered the Broad street store in Red Bank about midnight Saturday night. More than $500 is reported to have been in the safe. It is quite possible that the Milltown safe also has been deposited in the brook at Milltown.

Two Milltown men saw the safe thrown into the water and reported to the authorities.

The Red Bank police are working on the case from that end. Detective David is pushing the investigation and hopes to break up a gang that he believes to be responsible for a number of safe robberies in this vicinity.