Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-07
RANGGETS ROBBED
Just Over From Sweden, He
Finds the Pace Pretty
Fast.
TRIMMED AT Bos' SALOON
Proprietor and Freddy" Lowe and
Wife Placed Under
Arrest.

from Sweden, coming here to take a
job in the bindery of the Augustana
Book concern. thought he would cell
citrate before settling down to work.
He started in yesterday afternoon,
and at 1 o'clock he was drunk and
out SIS, the money having been sep
9rated from him at the saloon of
Dick Bos, on Fifth avenue between
Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth
streets.
Rang showed himself good fellow
| by buying drinks for the house. He
took fancy to brand of port wine
that Bos was dealing. He has not the
| slightest knowledge of the English
language, but his roll of the soft that
he flashed in the saloon did all the
! talking that was necessary. When
Rang had gotten about nine of Bos'
| port wines under his suspenders he
was ready for the count. He threw
a $40 and a $50 over the bar and got
back about 81 in change.
| Then he was taken for a heart to
heart talk with Minnie Lowe. the wife
| OF George Freddy" Lowe, both of
whom were members of Rang's party.
The conversation Immediately turned
to money matters. and when Rang
pulled out his bunch of greenba cks
the woman grabbed at it. Rang held
on. and the woman threw him to the
floor and took the money away from
him, after which she disappeared
through rear door. This operation
was witnessed by Mrs. Jennie McKin-
| non, a canvasser. who states that she
who visited the saloon for the Dur-
| pose of finding Fred Brewster, a rail
road man whom she was told was at
| Bos' place. Brewster was there, and
also saw Rang get trimmed. Mrs
Mckinney and Brewster left and call
ed the police, and Detective Richard
Carnes and Officer Henry Thode re-
spOnded, taking Lowe and his wife
and Rang to the station. Today war
rants charging the Loves and Bus
with larceny were sworn out before
Police Magistrate johnson.
Lowe has for years borne a shady
reputation. OF late he had been max
| ing his home in Muscatine He and
his wife just struck town a few days
ago and they say had rented rooms
above Bos' saloon, intending to live
there. BOs' saloon license was revok-
ed today.
None of the money stolen from
Rang has been recovered.
Robbed and Nearly Drowned.
David Edwards, an aged resident of
| Coal Valley. took a roll down the rail
road embankment near the approach
to the Sylvan bridge in the Rock Isl
and railroad yards yesterday after
noon and brought up in the river.
Two switchmen noticed the old
mans plight and FASTENED to his res
cue. He was helpless and would have
persisted but fer assistance reaching
him when it did.
He was conveyed to the police sta
ton in the patrol wagon and Il physi-
elan summoned to administer to him.
| He was bruised in the limbs and on
the back by contact with rocks that
he struck in his descent of the en-
banllment. He had swallowed about
a gallon of water.
Mr.. Edwards was today removed to
the home of William Edwards. a
friend, on Seventh avenue He does
not know how he happened to get in
the river, claiming that be became in
sensible while in saloon on Fifth
avenue yesterday afternoon. He
thinks he was "doped' for the purpose
of robbery, SO having been taken
| from him. Whether he was pushed
down the embankment or fell he is
unable to state positively. Mr.. Ed
wards is under the care of Dr. &. G..
| Craig, Sr., today.
| Other Police Court Cases.
Charles Gordon, the coIored bow.
who was let go a week ago on his
promise to behave in future after
| hitting a man in the head with a rock,
was arrested again yesterday after
noon, charged with assaulting Minnie
Cohn. He will have hearing this aft
| ternoon.
Louis Cohn, aged 10. was arrested
for theft Of coal from e. b. McKown.
, He said he would never do it again,
and was discharged.
Frank Trowton is a prisoner at the
county Jail because of refusal to obey
the rule of the Tri-City Railway COM
pany against splitting in cars. Trow-
ton was a passenger on Bridge line
car and when the conductor called
his attention to the rule he became
abusive and spat some more. He was
| placed under arrest and Magistrate
Johnson imposed fine of SO. Trow-
ton could not pay, and was ticketed
! for the county bastile zM