Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-02-18
DEMANDED $1,000
pEsPERATE ATTEMPT TO Ex-
TORT MONEY FROM KAN
sAs CRY MERCHANT.
1WITH DYNAMITE AND PISTOL
Lawrence N. Jones and Family Have
Thrilling Experience With q
Desperate In Their
Home.


ATTEMPT was made Tuesday morning
% extort $1,000 from Lawrence M.
ZONES. president Of the Jones Bros.
Dry Goods company Of this city, at
his home by a man giving the name
81 g. H. Garnet and who said he
came here from Omaha, Neb. Gar
nett was armed with revolver ana
carried q valise filled with dynamite.
Alter negotiating with Garrett for
three hours, the party started down
town to get the money. Once out OF
the house Mr.. Jones, aided by his son
and chauffeur, overpowered the
wculdbe hold-up and turned him over
to the pollce.a
Garrett carrying q small Vailse
called at the Jones residence on
Troost avenue while the family were
At breakfast and insisted on seeing
Mr.. Jones.
Mr.. Jones invited the man W TO the
library on the second floor and Of
fered him a chair. The man sat down,
still retaining his hold on the bag.
Mr. Jones sat opposite and leaned
over to begin the conversation, wnen
the stranger drew an automatic PTS
tol and pointed 1t at him.
l"IIl kill you II you make noise or
attempt to summon help" he said in
4 tense voice. II am desperate
man and l want money. must have
II. Now listen: This grip is full OF
dynamite. See this cord around my
wrist? 1t connects with matches
which are held between files. The
matches are lying in powder and the
dynamite is all around 1t. II ! drop
this bag eight inches 1t will ignite
the matches and blow you and me to
kingdom come. This house will be
blown into q million pieces"
what do you want?" said Mr..
Jones.
Il want $1,000, and I've got to have
II or we both must die"
"All right, let's talk 1t over There
Il no use in getting excited. II you
need money, I'll try to get It for you.
When Mrs. Jones and her son,
Chester, q years old, entered the II.
brary they we're Immediately covered
By the desperado's revolver.
"Now sit down." commanded the
man, "and we'll talk business. Don't
anyone try to leave or cry out or III
drop this bag Of dynamite"
A facetious thought struck him. He
would show his victims that he was
not "blufiing."
So he opened the bag and showed
them the interior. They saw the pow
der, the dynamite chopped in small
pieces and the matches between the
files with the cord attached to them,
Mrs. Jones offered the man some
coffee, asking him II he had had
breakfast. II have neither eaten nor
slept for four days. he said.
Time went on. No one in the room
knew what to do. Mr.. Jones had re-
vised his opinion that he was dealing
with a madman. He believed, now,
that the man was sane and Just what
he had announced himself to be--a
desperate man.
After more than two hours spent IN
the library 1t was at last arranged
that the party should go down town
IN Mr.. Jones' motor eacr.
Then the party started down the
staircase, tie nan with the bag Ct
dynamic and tire ris oil bringing IN
the rear. In TIE lower Nallway MI.
Jones and his son > OPP d to pat on
their oyercoats. I.ey I'D rot wart
10 DO this, having determined to pre-
cipitate struggle On the walk oli,
side, but they fealztd that II & ey
did not put on their coats the az
would be more guarded. Mis-. Jones
went out first, followed by her SON
then came the stranger, and Mr. Jones
was last. Chester, hurIying past III
mother reached the motor car befori
the others were in earshot and In 8
low voice spoke to the chauffeur
Henry Winters:
'I'm going to jump this man, He'll
me-"
There was no time for furtAel
explanation. Mr.. Jones began tie
struggle. Throwing himself upon the
man from behind he seized hin
around the chest in such fashion as
to pinlon his arms. With the aid o.
his son and the chauffeur the des
perate man was soon overpoweret
and turned over to the police.
When the police examined the va
Use carried by Garrett they found al
internal machine composed Of dyns
mite and gunpowder Eith match ar
ranged between two files so that !
would ignite when a wire to which |
wa attached was pulled
Fatal Illinois Central Wreck.