News: Abbotsford (Burglaries - 1958)

Transcriber: Robert Lipprandt
bob@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Gainoli, McNeight, Pieper, Sebold, Zunker

----Source: The Tribune - Phonograph (Abbotsford, WI) 12/14/2016

Originally published in the Abbotsford Tribune, December 25, 1958

Two Local Garages Entered By Burglars Monday Night

Marathon county authorities are investigating a series of burglaries in the county two places were entered in Abbotsford some time Monday night last week.

The Sebold Chevrolet garage was entered by breaking a window in the front door. Two U.S. Royal tires, a Delco 6-volt battery and a car radio from a 1959 Chevrolet car were taken.

At the Motor Inn Garage, the cars stored there were ransacked and an apron was taken from the glove department of a car belonging to Mrs. Sophie Pieper. The invoice machine in the garage was pried with a screw driver and a price list book was taken.

The burglars were almost nabbed at Zunker’s Garage at the junction of Highways 92 and 97 after they broke a pane of glass. The intercom system between the garage and the home of its owner, Arnold Zunker, was on but before Zunker could get out to the garage, he saw a car speeding toward Wausau.

Three silver dollars were taken from a cash register in the Verner McNeight implement store located near this junction.

Nothing was apparently taken from two cars which were ransacked at the Highway Auto Service at the same intersection, according to Undersheriff Louis Gainoli.