Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-11-22
A BOLD ROBBERY.
The c., r. l. & p. Ticket Office
Looted This Morning.
THE THIEVES GET ABOUT ss5.

Done While the Ticket Agent Was Sta
toned ut the Lunch Counter . Few Feet
Away-Carried Out In . Merry and Fear
less Manner.
About 1880 this morning the c., r.
l. & 2. ticket office was entered and
the money box, containing some
thing like $S5 taken. 1t was no
doubt one of the boldest robberies
that has been attempted in many a
day. 1t was while Ticket Agent Sam
McAdams was eating his lunch at the
counter, not Is feet distance, that
the sneaks successfully carried ont
their plans, which were undou btedly
executed in very few seconds. In
securing an entrance the burglars
took advantage of the north window
OF the ticket office, the upper sash of
which had been lowered few inches
to regulate the interior temperature.
Taking baggage truck, wheeling it
across the platform and placing it
underneath the window, the men
found that this would not furnish
sufficient elevation to warrant a COM
Portable entrance, and means of es-
cape, so box was placed on top of
the truck. This one of the men
climbed upon, pulled down the up
per sash, hoisted the lower one. en-
tered and secured the object of the
attempt, which was handed to a pal
stationed on the outside of the en-
trance, and departed.
Proceeded Fearlessly.
The fact that the outside of the
depot, from where the men operated,
having been lighted up and within
view of the employees of the train
masters office and baggage. room,
makes the work of these men all the
more bold aud fearless. And as
yard and trainmen are constantly
passing through the yards, the Job
must have been completed in a very
short time. The superstition is that
three men were implicated in the af-
fair. and from all appearances they
were no novices in this line of bust
ness. A man who was in the depot
at the time of the burglary, said that
three sleek-looking fellows got off
the 1910 train going cast, at this
city, and followed him as far as the
waiting room entrance. But that
was the last he saw of them. Moth
ing to arouse the suspicious of Agent
McAdams presented itself, as no
one, with the exception of this one
fellow. was in the waiting room
after the arrival of the train.
So far, the fellows have made good
their escape.
Three strangers were skulkinr
around the Peal house, Moline. about
l o'clock this morning, and after
questioning the night clerk in sus-
picious manner, started down Third
avenue toward Rock Island, and it is
thought they may have been the bur-
glars.
Police Points.
A Davenport residence was entered
about II O'Clock last night and some
silverware taken.
Lee Pau was tried this morning
before Magistrate Schroeder on a
peace warrant sworn out at the insti-
CATION of John McDarrah, and ac-
quilted.
John Welsh, stranger, was ar
rested by Officer Etzel at the ferry
boat landing this morning, having
some clothes in his possession sup
posed to have been stolen at Daven-
port.
Edward Henry was given a pre-
liminary hearing before Magistrate
Schroeder yesterday afternoon. He
waived examination and was bound
over to the circuit court in the sum
of $500 for each of the three charges
of forgery. Bail was furnished by
Fred Appelquist and George w.
Henry