The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-12
PAWNSHOP ROBBED
Bad Men Bound and Gagged q Chi
cago Pawnbr0ker's Clerk and
Robbed the Safe.
They Are Said to Have Secured Plum
der to the Value of Nearly Ten q
Thousand Dollars,
Including Gold Watches and Dia-
mOnds-The Story Told by
the Clerk.

CHICAGO, Jan. 1O.-Three desperadoes
captured between $1,000 and $4,000
worth Of plunder in the Star loan Office,
IS Randolph street, during business
hours. The men escaped, though police
officers quickly began securing the city
for the robbers.
Samuel Green owns the pawnshop. 1t
was in charge of Lionel Greenburg, a
clerk. He was bound and gagged be-
fore the men began operations on the
stock. They were interrupted as they
were pocketing the plunder by 1O-year-
old Mary Clements, neighbor's child.
The robbers secured the girl and bound
and gagged her. Her absence led to the
discovery of the robbery. She and
young Greenburg were found helpless in
the rear of the building.
Lionel Greenburg was alone in the
Office when the robbers appeared. He
had previously opened the shop, un-
locked the safe and was busying himself
about his usual duties when stranger
called and asked to be shown fur cap.
Greenburg led the man to the rear of
the store and began showing him an
assortment Of caps. Suddenly the man
seized him and threw him to the floor.
At this moment two others entered the
Office and joined in the attack on the
clerk. He is 90 years old, of slight build
and was soon overpowered. The thieves
bound his hands, gagged him with red
handkerchief and laid his helpless body
in a corner of the Office. Clothing and
loose articles in the store were piled over
him until he was almost hidden from
view. One man stood guard over the
corner and his confederates started for
the safe. The outer door was closed,
but not locked, Greenburg having
opened the combination soon after his
arrival. The valuable property con-
tained in the safe was protected, how
ever, by an inside compartment locked
with keys.
These keys were in Greenburg's pock.
cts. and the robbers made him give
them up. Opening the small drawer
they found property valued by Samuel
&reenburg, the proprietor, at nearly
$4,000. He says there were number
of diamonds and gold watches, and $500
One diamond, he says, weighed carats,
and was worth $500.
The robbers took small satchel from
the stock and dropped in it the contents
of the tray. Greenburg next occupied
their attention. He wore a diamond
stud and gold watch and chain. These
articles were added to the plunder de
posted in the satchel.
AS the men were preparing to leave
Mary Clements, tine child of the family
occupying apartments above the pawn
shop, ran down stairs to learn the time
Of day. Her entrance created mo-
nentary hesitation. One of the robbers
seized her and binding her hands, marched
her 10 corner near Greenburg. After
few moments. further delay the rob
sers left the Office.
Greenburg succeeded in loosing him
self when the man who had guarded
him with a revolver left, and ran out t.
the street us one of the Clements family
was entering to find the child. Hur
riedly telling his story he started on 9
run for Desplaines street police station
where large number of officers were a,
once put to work upon the case.