Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-12-03
DARING ROBBERY.
Thieves Do Their Work in Broad
Daylight.
CHICAGO THE SCENE OF TIE DEED,

And the Aiierton Packing Company the
victim--The Bold hascais Walk Into
the Office, Fasten t.,e Door. Hold Up
the Cashier. Gather IN About $4,000.
and Get safely on--A weIi-Pianned
aud Well Executed s.rece Of vi,iainy,
CHICAGO. Dec. IA daylight robbery
which TOR cool daring has few parallels
was committed by three masked men ia
the stock yards office OF the ) W Ailerton
Packing company. between and o'clock
yesterday afternoon The Trio marched
into the office viii, drawn reyolvers, emp
tied the contents OF half score of paper
boxes filled with envelopes containing the
wages OF the employees into bags. pried
open the interior compartment OF the big
safe. and after appropriating everything OF
value it contained, beat a hasty retreat
and made their escape They were off be-
fore a hand could he lifted against them.
and though yhe police were hot on their
trail within five minutes after their des.
perats exploit, they are still at large
Not Very Big Haul
The Allerton company lost just 81. 400 by
the raid, while j. w Osier. the young
cashier of the packing house. lost $50 in
money aud valuables worth about 500
That the robbery was carefully planned
by men who were fully acquainted with
the methods of the packing company the
successful execution of the crime proves
The company pays its employees every
Tuesday, and it has been the custom of
Treasurer John d. Robertson to prepare
the pay envelopes down town and then
send them to the packing house in charge
OF his i7-year-old son, Gordon Robertson
The Thieves Were on the Trail.
Yesterday Mr. Robertson had an APP
pointment with President Green, of the
Hercules Iron works, TO visit the packing
house and instead of sending his son with
the money he carried il TO the stock yards
himself With Mr.. Green he boarded one
of Swift " Co.'S 'busse. at the railway
station, and they rode together TO Packers
avenue, bread thoroughfare that leads
directly TO the Allerton house MIR. Rob-
ertson noticed a number of strange faces
in the bus, and also noticed that one or
two of the other passengers were cycling
the sachel containing the pay envelopes,
which he carried in his hand but he gave
the matter no thought at lifetime
Chose Their Time Well.
He delivered the money To ]. y. Osier.
the cashier. and he proceeded TO put it in pa
per boxes in proper order 1t has always
been the custom for somebody to stay in
the Office with the cashier on pay day, but
for once--probably the first tieie in twenty
years-he was left alone with the money
While osier was debating with himself as
to the ACCESSIBILITY of sending for man
the three robbers stalked into the office.
Each one wore a black mask from
the borders of which long artificial whis-
kers dangled. The leader placed the muz-
zie of a siS-shooter against 0sier's head,
and warned him to keep quiet. The sec
ond man thrust revolver againt a win.
dow and compelled a teamster in the en-
ploy OF the Fowlers, whose face was glued
against the glass, to remain where he
was.
No Time for Hesitation.
The third coolly placed thick hickory
club, each end of which was armed with
sharp iron head against the door in such
manner as to prevent anybody from the
outside entering the office Then he
sprang behind the desk, opened the yawn-
ing mouth Of a bag and hastily
dumped the contents of the paper
boxes into it. When all the boxes were
0hiEtit-uf OsicA OfueItu To open
the door of the safe. The young man hest
tated a moment, but the threatening click
Of the revolver at his head drove away his
scruples. He opened the main door. and
me of the robbers did the rest by prying
out the inner compartment with a jimmy
Escape OF the Robbers.
In it they found 500 in cash belonging
to Osier, go belonging TO employees, and
about 500 worth of yaluables-also Osieris
property. Dumping it all into the bag
rhey opened the door, sprang out into the
street and started ON dead run for
buggy few rods away There were
twenty teamsters and roustabouts
n the streets, but as the robbers kept
their reyolvers moving from side to side,
nobody tried TO intercept their flight
Climbing into the buggy, they dashed the
horse into gallop and started south on
Packers avenue at a dead run That was
The last seen of them.