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jrili licll n VVllUL, ****!»» VIIpolice station. Later Sam Drieo idem-tilled the man as the one that had robbed him of $100. ■ Jacobs, in frisking Drico, failed to elip him ror $290 he jia'd in a pocket of his trousers,K1 emu hist is- said to have received today $700 from the Chicago fall money reserve the two mobs.had hidden away for emergencies.Find Paste Diamonds,The police claim 'that the imitation diamonds found in the. room occupied' by John Dawson, Charles Stein and George Coombs, at the Hotel Edwin, bad been intended to be substituted for real stones in jewelry store sneak thief jobs. Dawson is said to have thrown the diamonds into a waste basket during- a - seuffie with Officer Kintz, when he and Detective Pappert and Officer By nek raided the room.Went to Warn Friends.Dawson is believed to have hurriedfrom the transfer corner to the Hotel Edwin immediately after he saw Police Chief- Abbott arrest. A1 Cole and another fellow, who later escaped from Detective Jmmel. Chief Abbott had followed the three-'fellows into the Hamilton bank and excited their.suspicions when they saw him eyeing a tatoo mark like u seal ring on the finger of Joe Dawson, The outside man tipped his two friends and the trio left | the bank. Chief Abbott followed them j across the street, where Cole stopped | in front of Riegel’s store, and Dawson j stood near the, curb, while the third] fellow walked toward' the bar room at i the rear. Grabbing cole, Abbott | hnstied him into the bar and locked j the pair in while he searched for Daw- j son. who, however, had made his cs- ;cape.No More Serious Charge.Pulling anything more serious than loitering against members of a well-organized mob of thieves is a difficult matter. Jacobs, in the tear off here Saturday, might have been successfully charged with larceny, but none of the remainder ever con Id have been convicted, according to the police. The only thing that connected Coombs and Stein with I he mob was tjje fact that Dawson was found in their rooms, but •to have fastened a. single job on any of the men aside from Jacobs would have been impossible, according to Police Chief Abbott, and that was the reason they were released on small bonds.The men all put up strong bluffs about being perfectly honest citizens of Chicago, and made a lot of talk about showing Fort Wayne the danger of-interfering with the liberties of honest men. Before night Sunday, however, every one of them was out of town.
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Fort Wayne News
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Mon, Dec 22, 1913
Page 6
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