The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1873-02-20


The circumstances OF the fremont
. Hotel robbery, which occurred three
. or four weeks ago were so inexplica-
bic, and the amount stolen SO large.
that the detectives have been more
. exercised by the occurrence, perhaps,
tnat by any recent criminal event ii
/ the city. Mr.. Isaac Mills. a travelling
salesman for a New NOIk manufact-
Uring jewelry house, arrived at the
hotel with 4 jewelers. trunk contain
ing chains, lOekets, and other articles
of solid gold, the aggregate value of
which WAS between SI5,001 and so, :
600. He was assigned 10 room No
on the third floor of the hotel. The
room fronts Oh Michigan avenue, and
the only door which il can he entered
IL so situated as to be in full view from
either OF the two passage-Ways on
this floor. Entrance was effected to
the room between Is and : O'lOck in
the evening, while, il was supposed,
Mr.. Mills was at supper. Marks OF a
burglars jimmy were found upon the
door, ana it is supposed to have been
forced from the outside, though one
theory was that the burglar mad Sc
creted himself in the room, and then
forced his way out after effectiag the
robbery. Nearly everything 0f value
in the trunk was taken. Mr.. Mills,
who was on his first trip for the house
he represented, returned to New York
almost heaTtbrOSen at the loss, but af-
ter full explanation, was exOnerated
from blame, and the latter authorized
that they would pay for the return Of
the goods SO per cent. of their value.
No blame was attached to the hotel
proprietor, although, as is usual when
vRluebles that cannot be nut incur
hotel safes, are left in a guests room,
the police in this instance had not
been notified TO furnish a special de-
tective.
No clue whatever had been obtain
ed of the robbers until yesterday af-
ternOOn. Suspicion attached itself to
one or two old offenders at the time OF
the robbery, but the detective force,
after ransacking the city, could not
learn that they had been in Chicago
of late. Yesterday, Mr.. PhilO W.ScO-
field, a travelling agent for a New
York jewelry house, overheard in q
jewelry store in this city, where he
called on business, a proposition made
to a member of the house to dispose
Of large amount of chains at a very
low price. The firm declined the Of
fer, but Scofeld, being interested,
asked to see samples Of the goods, and
or sight immediately recognized the
manufacturers patterns. His suspi-
ciOns being aroused, he put himself IN
communication with -,- rg-tir- a.
arranged to paw the Inievte : E} if.
currency for Il qLauLIIs Oi bracelets
and chains he valued at about Sl0,0 900.
This done, he informed the Superin-
tendent of Police, who detailed Detec-
tive TyrFell, and employed q third
party 10 assist in the c5pture. BY AZ
rangement, ScO1eId drove 0Ut i'm "a
buggy yesterday afternoon, aceomDa-
MED by the man with whom he nad
negotiated, to the corner of Adams
and Peoria streets. Here the man
with SeOfield, was met by his partner.
One of the men remained with the
buggy. SeOGeld and the other crossed
over into a lot on the corner of these
streets, used for parking teams and
'cOralling" horses. ScOfield's COM
paniOn had the jewelry wrapped up in
a bundle. The two climbed up into 4
wagon, and while the thief displayed
his jewelry Scofield made q show Of
counting out the money. Ithad been
arranged that TyTrell should appear
at this juncture, and though ScOfield
saw him on looking out from the wag-
on, the detective for some reason
passed by without noticing the wagon
or its occupants. Scofield began to
grow nervous, and finally took up the
money, saying he was afraid to make
the transaction in the wagon. He
proposed that they jump back into
the buggy and drive to hotel. Act
ing on the suggestion, the thief threw
the package Of jewslTy into the buggy
and jumped in. Just at this instant
Tyrrelps companion, driving from an
opposite direction, saw the situation,
and, driving in front of the thief's
buggy, locked wheels with it and cut
off his escape with the horse and bug
gy. The thief in the buggy immedi-
ately jumped out but was seized by
Tyrrell. His companion, however,
rushed in and seized the package of
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sued by ScOfield. The latter immedi-
ately drew his revolver and began fir
ing, whereupOn the thief whirled
around and the two clinched. The
thief attempted to grab the revolver
from ScOfeld's hand, and in the melee
it was discharged, blowing a heavy
glove on one of the thiefs hands into
shreds and burning him somewhat.
This ended the struggle. Both the
robbers were secured, and confined
last night at one of the West side Ire
cincts. The officers decline to give
further particulars this morning, be-
lieving other parties are implicated
who will be secured to-day. The val
ne of the jewelry recovered is at least
$4,000, and it is believed the whole
amount will be in the possession of
the officers within two or three days.
= Chicago Inter. Ocean, Feb. :.