The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-08-29
KILLED BY HIGHWAVNAN
Robber Shoots Down Mrs. Mize ii
Chicago Street.
REVOLVER IS FIRED IN TUSsLE

Victim Tackled Tootpad when He Tried
TO Seize Her .Purss-Thisf Escapes
with His Booty--Crowd Pursues Him
Down an Aneyway-F riond of mrs.
Mize Gave Alarm.
Chicago, Iil.-Struggiing with q foot
pad at Fifty eighth street and Wash
ington avenue, Mrs. S. e. AEize, a we'll
to-do New York woman. was fatally
shot She died ssoon after her reno
val to the Del Prado Hotel. a block
away. where she was a guest. The
robber. whom the police regard as an
amateur. escaped.
Mrs. Mize and Mrs. r. A. Wilson,
near friend. from Los Cruces. Mexico.
who also is stopping at the hotel, left
the Del Prado early in the evening to
do some shopping in Fifty-seYenth
street. They were halted at Fifty
eighth street by TALL slender young
man. well dressed in a light gray suit
of clothes
81 want that purse" he exclaimed,
grabbing Mrs. Miles, well-filled peck
etbook. Mrs. Wilson did not wait to
see what happened. She ran down the
street to the hotel, crying loudly for
help.
Mrs. Mize resisted the robber, at
tempting to retain hold on her purse,
and with her right hand tried to grab
the thief's revolver. The next instant
there was shot. and Mrs. Mize sank
to the sidewalk wounded in the right
hand and in the breast
Mrs Wilson and a maid, Hannah
Canlin, who was a witness to the rob-
berry and shooting from the opposite
side Of the street, alarmed The hotel
people and the neighborhood. The rob-
berry occurred almost directly in front
of the residence of Alderman II. L.
Bennett.
The thief ran west in the alley open
ing in Fifty-eighth street, with crowd
behind him. He easily distanced them.
He retained the purse, which it is sup
posed contained several hundred dol
lars
Mrs. Mize was carried back to the
hotel where she died soon afterWard.
The body was removed to Jordan's
Morgue.
1T all happened so quickly" said
MIS-. WIlSOu, 7ludJ 4 cOulu uOL ECttltA6
it until heard the shot and saw Mrs.
Mize lying on the sidewalk. with the
thief running up the alley The man
had followed us two blocks, and we
both noticed him. but did not think he
was robber."
Mrs Wilson would not tell the police
anything about Mrs. Mize, and it re-
CURED urging to get her to say any
thing about the robbery. This silence
on her part led the police to believe at
first that there was some other expla-
nation than robbery for the shooting.
The Hyde Park police were at the
scene few minutes after the shooting,
and Inspector Hunt drove up in his
buggy. A description of the thief was
sent to all police stations. Detectives
went to look for the man at the White
City and other amusement parks and
especially in Washington Park. where
the Inspector believed he might have
hidden himself. Other detectives were
sent to watch all elevated stations.
ut looks to me as though the man
was an amateur from the kind of
work." said Inspector Hunt. 1T is
possible that Mrs. Mize in reaching
for the revolver caused the weapon to
explode"
Mrs. Mize was forty-two years old.
and came to the hotel with Mrs. Will
son on July %. She was widow, her
husband having died a year ago.