From the Cortland Standard of Cortland, NY
Sunday, June 17, 1877

Burglary

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   As Mr. W.H. Babcock, the station agent, entered the depot of the U.I.&E. Railroad in this village Saturday morning last, he was surprised to find the door leading from the ladies' waiting-room into his office wide open and his money-drawer rifled of its contents, lying by an open window on the north side of the waiting room, while another window on the opposite side was also up.

   His visitors had evidently effected their entrance by the north window, for the marks of a chisel which they had attempted to force between the two sashes in order to move the window-catch are plainly distinguishable. Failing in this, they succeeded in reaching the catch by cutting out a pane of glass.

   Having entered the window and secured their escape by raising the one on the south side, they proceeded to the dsoor of the ticket office and with the chisel tried to force their way to the bolt through the casing. This they could not do, and they then cut through one of the panels of the door a hole large enough for the insertion of a hand and arm.

   From the inside the boat is easily turned by the fingers. The money drawer was pried open without difficulty. The ticket case was torn from the wall and carried to the shelter of a heap of stones east of the station, where its lid was forced off and a board taken off the back by means of the all-efficient chisel. Nothing of value to the thieves was found in the case, and out of pure spite they "pied" its contents, consisting of about 2,000 tickets - much to the disgust of the railroad men, as they had all to be sorted and replaced, ticket by ticket, in their original order.

   The larger case of Western tickets, however, was not disturbed, and nothing else seems to have been touched excepting Mr. Babcock's overcoat, which they left upon the floor. The money-drawer contained one dollar and sixty cents in nickels, which was the sole reward the marauders obtained for their trouble. No clue to the indentity of the guilty parties has been obtained. The injured door has been sent to Breesport for repairs.