The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-20
A BIG HAUL.
julius Quast's Store ON Pecan Street
Entered and One Thousand and
FOrty Dollars in Cash Stolen.


The STATESMAN notified its readers
the police had suspicious that band
of thieves were in the city, and warn
ed the people to be on the lookout for
them; the bold robbery of yesterday
morning shows that the warning was
a timely one, and if it had been heed
by Julius Quasi, the Pecan street
grocer, he would have been $l040
richer to-day than he is. He, how
ever, is like the most of humanity
careful to lock the stable after the
horse has been stolen. It is a little
singular how careless some men will
be with their money, and that, too,
when they ought to be the most care
full. Certainly no merchant was ever
more careless than Mr.. Quasi was
yesterday morning.
1t appears from his story, as told
the police, as well as that
of the other parties who
were interviewed by STATESMAN re-
preventative yesterday that he and his
son-in law, Harry Baum, and John
Adams, were having a social time.
Wednesday evening, and INDUCED, to
a limited extent. in the nectar of
Gambrlnus. A little after II o'clock
the three went into Mr.. Quast's store,
and Mr.. Quasi left the front door open
while he and his friends went into a
back room to take a social drink. He
had not yet locked his safe, in which
he had 5000. They stayed in this back
room some time and about l o'clock
yesterday morning Mr.. Quasi or some
one of the party proposed they step
into neighboring saloon and get a
night-c ,p before they parted. Strange
| to say he went out Of the store to the
saloon and neither locked the store nor
the safe, but left both open. When he
returned he found that thief had
been in and stolen his money. He first
| discovered he had been robbed by
| going to q box where he kept small
change and found it missing. He
then went to the safe and found that
the thousand dollars had been stolen
also. He was SO excited and cha
grinned at his loss that he flew into a
passion and accused his daughter,
Harry Baums' wife, with the theft
| He was under the influence of his
beverage at the time, or he would not
have done so in all probability. This
made Harry angry and hot words
followed and the old gentleman kick
ed his son-in-law from the store
There Harry undertook to reciprocate
and first-class family quarrel en-
sued resulting in Mr.. Quasi having
Harry arrested for assault.
d STATESMAN representative tool
considerable pains to investigate
the charge against Mrs. Baum
and found that it had
no foundation to rest on what
ever, as the lady was not in the city
at ali, but was visiting in the coun
try several miles from Austin and OF
the further side of the Colorado, and
she could not have gotten across the
swollen river in the darkness and thu
rain that fell in torrents. There ap-
pears to be not the slightest grounds
to lay. such a suspicion upoI
the lady. The robbery was undoubt
edIy committed by one of the grace
less scamps who are in Austin JUS
now, and who had, no doubt, beer
watching the place, and probably en-
tered while the three men were in thu
back room drinking and before they
went to the saloon. Several parties OF
Pecan. in the nelghborhood, repor
having seen stranger prowlins
about that locality, and he is
no doubt, the man who go
the contents of the safe. The case il
in the hands of the detectives ant
every clue will be followed that cal
be had to lead to the guilty parties. l
is exceedingly strange that mar
would keep 5000 in his safe and a
:. o'clock in the morning leave the SAT
unlocked and the front door open ant
go to saloon to get drink-and ye
that IS what Mr.. Quasi says he did
No wonder he was robbed.
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