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ID JOLT HE CONFESSES INVESTIAIJSE TD ROBBING OF IImSteward Tells ek as He Ex-39 STORESWRIt.SENSATIONHarry Sampson Has Operated in Joplin on Amazingly Large Scale.Committee of Making Inqi Causes of thPOLICE RECOVER LOOT ISMAY TELLSs Passengers, * Find Box Full of Sundry Captain RostWent to His m.\al Naiva Joi'Tlc*,]il 19.—The following oday by Alfred Tes-ass steward on theStolen Articles in Youth’s Home.After being sweated in the private office at the police station following his arrest, Harry Sampson, 19 yearstells graphically of o\d, confessed to Chief of Police Joints hitherto unpub-one of the survivors life raft. For 21 lowed the sea. He m the Lapland with nembers of the crew lis last trip on theGraphic Rec by the CarpTitanic a fortnight jeenstown,” said Tcs-etailed to C deck and on this trip over I staterooms occupied nost noted people on eluded Mr. and Mrs. mjamin Guggenheim, i, H. F. Julian, Dr. rs. Taussig and Miss leir daughter. I can horror of last Sun-fse people—and theseph Myers and Sergt. John Holmes that he had burglarized thirty-nine, stores and dwellings in Joplin during the past four or five months. Harry j stated that there might be a few more places that he had forgotten.A big dry goods box was setting upon a table in the office and it was filled with the loot taken from the stores and residences. There was a little of everything from a diamond ring to a package of cigarette papers. As the chief of police displayed each article the lad would state where he got it.Sampson has long been under thesurveillance of the officers who suspected him of being implicated in severs—all sitting help-;eral of the robberies. A young man t vessel. So few of answering to his description was no-1, too.ant Voyage, ight here that it was vessel that brought ction. She was superb But no vessel could nr of the ice on herticed in the vicinity of where several houses were robbed. Nearly all of the houses were entered during the daytime, and the stores were robbed at night. Sampson worked alone and took nobody into his confidence. In all he secured about £125 in cash and1 By Internattoni New York, Apr officer Lightoller Grade, U. S. A., ir death in the Titan most interesting d out today before ' mittee which is wreck. Both men . the last and went be raved from dea of the boilers wh: to the surface who abled them to floi cafety on an over While further do ing heroism that di of those who went Titanic were bei Bruce Ismay, prei national Mercanti tifying before the committee, which United States go' blame for the dii Whether the T ing to establish a en voyage, which was steaming at qt 26 miles an gerous ice fields, ported to the Titi vicinity of her co The first scssio* intr committee w
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Joplin Morning Tribune
Joplin, Missouri, US
Sat, Apr 20, 1912
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