This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wm. J. and Henry Streight Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/34.3.1.1 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, July 14, 1918 STREIGHT STORE BURGLARIZED Evidently Robbers Gain Admission Through Rear Entrance of Store >From Monday’s Daily. Since last Saturday and evidently last evening burglars entered the furniture store of Streight and Streight, and finding the safe open took a chisel and pried out the steel door of the till and a small reward below it, which they went through. There was only five dollars in the safe, but that was not for circulation, but was a five dollar gold piece which was coined in 1863, and was given to Henry J. STREIGHT by his mother when in that year he was promoted to the position of the first Lieutenant, and was for the purchase of shoulder straps. Mr. Streight did not use the money but made the purchase from money he had himself and kept the gold piece all his life, and at the time of his death a few years ago, the coin was given to Will J. STREIGHT, and he had it in an envelope and was just keeping it. Mr. Streight said that he would gladly give ten dollars for the coin on account of its association. He says also he could use the little steel door which was pried off from the safe. The papers which were in the safe were found piled up in the back room, nothing else was taken.