Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-08

The hold robbery of $1,000 to $1,000
worth of watches and jewelry from
,TcNamee's store, No. 1907 Market
streat was quite an interesting topic
YESTERDAY for large number OF citi-
zens. .,oo,,r
tho only account of the bold stroke
D~blished Yesterday, having all the de.
iteiIs ohtainable and correct Ist VI
rba stolen property, except thaC q
T-atcbes were stolen instead Oh ~, DIS
he he neonle at the store figured II FIJI
day night. Their error was emu a, ety
nardonable. however, in the eAei'e
ment incident to the loss.
The police have prepared cOll 60
lisls Of the stolen property. ana the
officers in all the large cities ana
towns within several hundred miles
NJ Wheeling have been Aouned 10
loot ont for the stolen property anu
the thieves as well. -.
Within half an hour after the as
coverv Of the robbery a Register re-
Dorfer was informed that the opera
lions Of the thieves had been VII
neseea nv AZ least one man from the
street but he made no alarm De
cause he naturally supposed that Tue
goods were being removed from me
window by a member Of the hrm OF
an employe. and this natural thoughI
was confirmed by the fact that the
fellow Was in his shirt sleeves and
without his hat and had a jewelers.
tray in his hand, upon which the
goods were being piled. This lntor-
nation was at once communicated 10
L~~,-ee-ycscc" - m = genera manner, ana
Yesterday further investigator Cyl tho
frmed the report. 1t also nAeu s 80
time as between eight minutes ss IS1.
civ o'clock and quarter AFTER TINS
taGl,,Sng very closely with the slsss !t5,
- 80 of Mr.. Varin, who .sated, as
nnhiisbed in the Register yesterday,
ibat men he passed the south show
- ~ at about a quarter after SIX
,EtSock. he saw that the great major
ity of the display had been removed.
rir. WEIGH, an employee of the store,
said Friday night he went away IN
the neighborhoOd Of ten minutes after
six. and all this narrows the time
down to about fifteen minutes after
six when the thieves got IN tielr
work. They must have been on Mar
ket street, across from the store, wnen
Mr.. Welch left, ana as soon as he
started up street the thieves must
have gone around in the alley, bro
ken the rear door open, removed the
goods and escaped within the next five
minutes.
About a quarter after six, as ascer-
tanned ty a Register reporter, two
men. residents Of a neighbOrlng town,
stopped on the sidewalk in front OF
the store. and while talking there
they saw a man walk up to the south
show window. inside the store, and
proceed to remove the goods. He
was bare-headed and in his shirt
sleeves. had a tray in his hand, and
began to rapidly take the watches and
other goods out Of the window and
place them on the tray. One of the
two men who were watching this pro-
ceeding thought it very strange that
the display should be removed at such
an hour, and said so TO his cOmpan-
ion, but the other laughed at am,
and remarked that he knew nothing
about Wheeling business methods.
The suspicious gentleman, neverthe-
less, walked up to the window and
began to take an increasing interest
in the operation Of the man inside,
but the fellow went right on with his
work, looking up a couple of times at
the man outside. Finally the inside
worker desisted from his labors and
disappeared toward the rear of the
store, and thinking that probably the
thing was all right after all, the men
on the outside walked away and ;J--
got all about the incident until the
fact of the robbery was made known,
an hour and a quarter later. The
man inside, as well as the men out
side, were seen by two or three little
boys who were nearby, and after The
robbery became known they told Of
the incident, and thus gave the first
real information.
The police are working hard on he
case and expect tangible results In a
few days, or as soon as word can be
received from other cities for no one