The San Francisco call., 1909-12-12
RECOGNIZED INSTANTLY
BY VICTIM OF WEEK AGO
Desperate Leisurely Makes Es-
cape in Market Street
Crowds After Crime
GOOD DESCRIPTION OF
HIGHWAYMAN OBTAINED

THE same desperado who caused
a reign o fterror a week ago by
the commission of two desperate
ho1dups and amurder duplicated the
first OF that series of crimes last
night
Within a week almost to an hour
OF the time he held up Edward II.
Gleason in the Gleason-Courneen
drug store at 1882 Market street, the
thug entered the store again at FIVE
minutes past o'clock last night, COW
cred another employe of the store
with arevolver, robbed the cash reg
lister of 500. and again made his es-
cape through the early evening
crowds in Market street.
Gleason Recognizes Thug
Edward H. Gleason, the first Of the
victims of aweek ago. was in the rear
of the store at the time of the holdup,
had agood look at the thug and iden-
tilted him beyond question as the
same man for whom the police have
been fruitlessly ransacking the city
for seven days
The desperate who perpetrated the
outrage last night has mysti6ed and
baffed the police department as no
other criminal fhis kind has done
since the days of Siemsen and Dab
ner. A week ago last night he Sc
cured $40 from Gleason out of the
same cash register that he robbed last
night, and within 80 minutes after the
commission of that crime held up
David B. Greene in a pharmacy at
Turk and Franklin streets, murdered
William H. Schneider in the Burns
hammam baths in Eddy street, and
finally escaped after a hand to hand
fight with William H. Hawkins in
Van Ness aYenue betweeen Eddy and
Ellis streets.
RObber Keeps Promise Z
Last night the rober made good his
threat shouted at Gleason a week be-
fore to return. AS he left the store
on that occasion, with $40 of booty
in his pocket, he cried out to Gleason:
I'll come back again, and next time
I'll kill you if you squeaL"
That was not all He has made the
first threat good and replaced it with
another Two hours after the holdup
last night man supposed to be the
desperado himself, called up the drug
store on the telephone and was an
swered by H. J. Courneen, one Of the
proprietors lie wasted no time in
preliminaries nor declaring his own
identity When Courneen responded
at the telephone he heard these
words:f
III come back again want you
to have more money next time, or III
raise hellP'
: The telephone receiver was
slammed on the hoo kat the distant
end without another word from the
mysterious caller Though the pos
sibility was suggested that the mes
lieve so. and asserted that the voice
was similar to that of the holdup man
whom he had seen and heard two hours
before and that he. believed it to be
the same.
Six Men Watch HOldup
It was not Gleason. but DR.. III. f.
holland. clerk in the store. who was
the victim last night. He was alone in
the front of the store at the time. but
six men, including both proprietors of
the store. were behind the prescription
coulter at the rear. Witnessed the hold
up through a glass opening and a cur
tanned doorway and obtained perfect
mental picture of the thug. Gleason
recognized him as the former robber
the moment he saw him. and cried out
that it was the same man before the
second holdup was actually committed.
This time there is no doubt as to the