The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-08-10
POLLOCK'S ROBBER CAUGHT.
HE IS JOSEPH BURKE, wow ~ JAIL
ar LEzDTILLE
On Nov. 4. leo1. He shot the JeweIry Sales
man Several Ttmes = Sioux city Trasn
SD Robbed Htu OF $4,000 worth Of
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SD Robbed Htu OF $4,000 Worth OF
DIanonds-He IL n Notoriou. Thief
The highvsymAn who. on Nov. !. 1892. held
I'd Mr.w. J. Pollock Of this city on a Sioux City
and Pacific train and robbed him Of $1,000
worth OF diam onds in the presence Of a cat.ul
Of passengers after shooting him several times
through the arms and chest. has teea captured.
Pinker detectives, in the employ Of the
Jewellers Protective Union found him in Jail
at LeAdvile
Mr.. Pollock is a salesman for ". l. Pollock
4 Co OF John street. ami his business re-
ouires him to travel through the West one
o year. On Nov. 4. 1882. while on his way
from Omaha TO Sioux City man. who had dis
Guised himself ~ quitting on a false heard.
confronted him with a revolver and ask ed him
for his diamonds Mr.. Pollock was 20 sur
pr!sed that he did not reply. and the highway
man opened ere. wounding the salesman in
four places Then the rotber struck him on
the head with a slunGshot and thrust his hand
into Tollock's inside vest pocket. whence he
took a case eon;ainG the diamonds Then the
roSber pulled the bell cord and jumped from
the train while !. was going at the rate 81 about
thirty-fve miles per hour. and was seen 10 roll
down an enbankment.
Mr.. Pollock was taken to the nearest hospi-
tal and vls treated there for several months.
His firm was notified. and they called upon
their 4asf; S,' 70 ook into he case
ellers' Protective Union. telegrAphed Finket-
tons Agency at Kansas City. and detectives
was traced from where he rolled down the en- :
ssnkmert BY his footprints, through corn
Sea he vas .hot at by ,ss 10
He was traced rom there on foot TO the vi
entity Of Council Bluffs. Ia where al! trace
for Omaha which lie reached 10 safety.
Nj. Pollock had come from Denver u Omaha
toners, showing his diamonds and making
sales Ia the store Of one OF his customers
some strangers bad asked the salesman how
gong Mr.. Pollock said he carried his lose
diamonds in large poeketeook in his inside
going to Sioux City on the afternoon tran,
The detectives concluded that the robbery
had see n p EAp b. The people who ques;;
who. they tel!eve7. had followed him from
Denver. About, this time joseph Burke. 3
from the tAh penitent!sry. made It's appear:
snce in Omaha From Information obtain ed
concluded that Burke might have been con:
ce-ped IL the diamond robbery. They located
Burke in ,aii al LeLtviile. where he had teen
placed after being arrested III Gilman. fag 3
county. Co orhdo with q stick 4 dynamite and
some burglars tools in his possession. twas
lock roohe-.
Ar Pollock went TO Lea6ville and positively
identified the man as his asssilslt and &. so
recognized him SIS one Of the men who was IN
his customers store at On aha when the H.
cCiries were made -! him C ucerr!ns where lie
carried his diAno-cs ard where he was going
from omaha.
Information IN the possession q the deter-
tives shows that the diamonds stolen from Mr.
Pollock are in The hands o. second party.
who has a3va Nej OF them mt a sLr Al. 7 OF &
10 Burke The Jewellers Protective Union
wi! row turn their attention 10 the recovery
o. the diamon5s and the conviction Of tie
outside thieves who tlEuned the robbery. and
who row control the I-op@rty
Mr.. Pollock is still il the West tu. letters
have been received tom him by his firm fully
confirming the reports o. BuGks's arrest ard Of
the robters Identity.