Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-19

at the time. and there must have been
several doxerI sight-seers in the neighbor-
hood. whe,i all of a sudden crash and
the fall of heavy plate glass was heard.
Everybody turned and looked in the di-
rectiou from which the sound came, and
those nearest the store saw man ram his
arm into the show-window and draw out a
jewelry tray. Quicker than a flash he
swept the contents il to his pocket and dis
appeared. It seems that the fellow de-
lberately walked up to the window, and
with the aid Of geod-sized hammer
knocked it in aud grabbed diamond tray,
which contained about $500 worth of I'M
set diamonds.
1t has lately been sscertained that Harry
Armitege talias Harry Wilshee, alias Jack
Kelly, alias Howard) was the robber, and
he is now being sought for by the detectives.
He affected ministerial makeup and has
an expression of piety. During the war he
was at the front as a journalist, and he is
credited with getting the first report of the
battle of Gettysburg to the Chicago papers.
He had good record, but after the war he
found himself penniless and went to Kan
sas City, where he married. He soon got
into trouble, left Kansas City and wife
and turned up in Salt Lake City, where,
ignoring the fact that be had no divorce
Again getting into a scrape he left for
New Orleans, where he stayed during the
Exposition and made some money. Here
he met lady of some wealth, formed a
partnership with her and purchased the
panorama of the Battle of Gettysburg. He
made considerable money, and finally he
and his wife came TO this city, where he
landed during the boom. The panorama
| was unfolded and pat up on Main street,
and again he was prosperous. Business at
last became slow, and if it had not been for
| what happened later on, Armitage would
| have dropped from the public gaze.
| He was without money, and with the aid
of confederate committed the diamond
robbery. The meager description of the
| thief was all the officers had 10 work on,
| but his former landlady told the officers
she thought he was crooked, and they
| learned that he left Los Angeles soon after
the robbery and went to San Francisco.
But here the officers lost their clew. They
/ had no evidence to arrest him on. Later
it was ascertained that he had married
again and was engaged to two other women.
| One woman is wealthy widow, and he
won her confidence to such an extent that
she intrusted TO his safe-keeping several
| thousand dollars worth of certified checks
Just before the Hollingsworth robbery
the widows name was forged on these
checks by Armitage. The officers found
that his third wife, few days after her
| husband had gone north went 10 Pasadena
! and then to San Francisco and then back
| to this city. By means of a female de.
| tective it was learned from the woman that
an hour or so after the robbery Armitage
came to her with the diamonds, acknowl.
edged that be had stolen them, and, with
the money he had obtained from the forged
drafts, put them in his wife's trunk and
made her bring the plumber to him in San
Francisco, and then Tilted her. Since then
no trace has been found of the fellow
though the officers fear he has sought
refuge in Canada