The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-18
STRANGER BEAR PLUCKED
RELIEVED OF FIVE HUNDRED
DOLLARS BY HIGHWAYMEN
Pool Game in a Saloon Led to
Hack Ride With New Found
Friends and n HoId-Up in Which
He Was Stripped of Money and
Police.

He Was Stripped of Money and
Police. ,4 !, i.es.
E. ]. Bear, a strfanger in the city,
was the victim of bold highway rob-
berry, Saturday night, by which he lost
SEGO in money and jewelry. He was
decoyeG to a lonely spot by several
rev acquaintance, whom he met dur
ing the evening, and stripped of every
article of value about his person.
The robbery took place shortly after
IL o'clock. Bear is unable to locate
tbs place where he was attacked, but
from his story it would appear that
he was held up in West st. Paul near
the High bridge.
Bear is circus performer and
reached the city at 7:15 Saturday even
ing from Seattle, Wash, en- route to
Galveston, Tex, where he is to join
show with which he has contract. He
knew no one here and started out after
supper for a quiet tour of the city by
himself.
He drifted into a saloon on Wabasna
street, near Seventh, where he Watcn-
ed several strangers playing pool and
finally took a hand in the game.
During the progress OF half dozen
games of pool Bear grew confidential
with his new acquaintance and DIS
played a roll of bills containing $29O.
The strangers suddenly lost interest in
the pool game and suggested hack
ride Bear agreed and left the saloon
in a hack with two of the men, One OF
the strangers rode on the seat with
the driver, While the other was inside
of the carriage with Bear.
The carriage had process ded some dis
lance when it stopped and Bears &C
uuaintances aske him if he would OBJ
ject to the presence of another good
fellow" Bear said the more the mer-
rier, and a third stranger, doubtless
sent out to select a favorable spot Tor
the robbery, got into the hack. All that
Bear can distinctly recall OF his ride,
after the advent of the third stranger,
is that the carriage seemed to travel
quite a distance and crossed long
bridge.
At the end of the bridge the carriage
stopped and the man who had occupied
the seat with the driver opened the
door with an invitation for the others
to alight. Bear got out first, and as
he remarked upon the loneliness of the
place, one of the men suddenly seized
him about the throat. In moment the
other two men were upon him, and in
spite of a stubborn fight, Bear was
soon PROSTATE on the ground. One Of
his asSailantS saVagely gripped his
throat to prevent his calling for help,
while the others hurr.ediy searched his
pockets. When they had secured the
$3.50, the highwaymen took Bears dia-
mond ring, a diamond stud his cuff
buttons and a lady's diamond breast
pin set with rubies, which he had
pinned inside of his vest, the jewelry
aggregating fully 5000 in value.
The highWaymen seemed DESTROYS of
l,,;,, DC
as they made no attempt to use any
kind of weapons or to strike him, but
by the time the man at his throat re-
leased his grasp the circus performer
was unconscious. When he regained his
senses Bear found himself lying in
clump of bushes fifty feet from the
roadside. He was utterly bewildered
ard spent several hours wandering
about endeavoring to find his way back
to the city. He reached his hotel at
o'clock, still dazed from the effects
of the attack, and did not report the
robbery to the police until yesterday.
Patrick Hill and Billy" Hoban,
young men with unenviable police
records, were locked up at the Rondo
street station last evening, on the
charge Of robbing Bear. The prisoners
We're captured at Lake VaGDais yes err
day afternoon by Detectives Sweeney,
Jack Daily, Calvin and Werrick. Bear
who choked him, and Hoban as the
man who searched his pockets. James
Igo, the hackdriver, alleged to'Nave
conveyed the party to the scene of the
hold-up, is also under arrest, charged
with ccmpli city in the robbery.
The capture of the alleged highway
men so soon after the robbery was
clever piece Of work, for which Mr.. Bear
highly complimented Chief SchweitZer
and his officers. Chief Schweit-
ger "pegged' Hill and Hoban as the
thieves when the robbery was first re-
ptrted as he had personally seen them
about the saloon where they picked up
Bear. While he was on one of his tours
OF inspection.
When Detectives Sweeney and DAILY
were called into the case they reported
that they had been tipped that Ho-
ban and Hill were seen going out Rice
street in a hack with two women at
o'clock yesterday morning. This
seemed to make a clear case and the
four detectives We're at once ordered
to Lake Vadnais. Here they found Hill
and HCban asleep. Hoban made dash
for a shotgun, While DOMINIC his
clothes, but was 'irduced" by Detect We
Calvin not to use the weapon Hoban
wanted to shoot so badly, however,
that the officer was compelled to choke
him almost into insensibility to make
him let go of the gun.
None of Bears jewelry or money was
found in the prisoners possession, but
the police hope to recover the property
Hill and Hoban, together with Put
ney' Smith, were only relieved of a
charge of larceny in the police court
last Friday. They were under arrest
on the charge of stealing shoes from
Esch's shoe store, Third street and
Bates avenue The county attorney
dismissed the case on the alleged
lively identify the prisoners.