Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-10
ALLIES AT ALTOONA.
The Erratic Real Estate Agent Held
Awhile for Instructions.
CHIEF BROWN DOESN'T WANT HIM,
sAnd the Refugee Offers $5oto the Man Who
Will Bring HimsHome.
HOW HE SKIPPED, OUT OF GREENsBURG

Jacob G. Allies, the crazy real estate agent,
who attempted to kill off about everybody
he-met in Pittsburg Saturday. is locked up
at Altoona. After leaving this city the
mad career of Allies was followed by Detec.
tives Robinson and Fitzgerald to
Greensburg He registered at the
Stark House, and engaged enter
| tainment for two weeks. Finding that
| the officers were on his track he gave the
entire town the slip by hiring livery rig
! and driving to a station IL miles away.
| There he took an early train for Altoona,
the officers returning home empty handed.
The first heard from the methodical
lunatic was yesterday afternoon, when a
telegram from Chief of Police Wier, of
Altoona, to Inspector McAleese, informing
him that Allies had arrived there, and asking
if he was wanted. Later in the day another
telegram was received containing the in
formation that the loon had been captured,
and asking what disposition should be made
of him.
WILL NOT SEND FOR HIM.
The Inspector said to a DISPATCH re-
porter that he would not send for Allies, and
stayed away from Pittsburg, though he
would be arrested if he returned voluntarily.
The following special was received from
Altoona last night:
j. C.. Allies, the Pittsburg real estate
agent who attempted to kill his business
partner, Bailey, Saturday, was arrested in
this city last evening on the arrival of the
fast train, by Officer Frantz, of the city
police force. The conductor of the train
notified the officer that there was an
insane man on the train, who was
dangerous to appr ach. The officer
boarded the car and took Allies in
custody, who assented peaceably. In fact
he seemed anxious to go with the officer,
and did not appear at the time to be labor
ing under any mental aff1iction. Allies gave
brief history of his adventures during the
past few days, stating that he had
been adjudged insane by the court.
He also related his startling exper-
ience with Greensburg officers, stating
that he was too sharp to be caught by them.
After eluding the Greensburg officers he
went to Latrobe, and while there he gave
the citizens and officers some diversion,
nearby station and boarded train for the
East While on the train he became bois-
ferrous and was going to make away with
the passengers, who were terribly fright
ened.
PLENTY OF PAWN TICKETS.
When placed in the city prison officers
searched Allies and found on his person a
sum of money and number of pawn tickets
for articles ranging in value from $40 to $40,
several of them being for diamond rings.
This afternoon he offered the officers $50 if
they would take him back to Pittsburg. The
city officers telegraphed the authorities at
Pittsburg that Allies was here, and asked.
what disposition was to be made of him.
A reply was received tonight from J. o.
Brown, Chief of the Department of Public
Safety, which stated that Allies was not
wanted and to turn him out. Notwithstand-
ing the message, Allies will be held until to-
morrow morning, when he will be liberated
if word is not received from his friends
He is quiet tonight, but in a dangerous
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