The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-02
Masked ROBBER
BATTLES POLICE
Fashionable Residence District in
Pittsburg on Verge of Panic
n Man or Womanl

n Man or Woman1
PITTSBURG. March The fash
iCnaDle Oakland residence district or
flttsDurg Is on the verge OF panic
over the operations Cf masked high.
Wayman-or possibly highway
: Al the same time the depredator. who
Is described as young and pc
the face has never yet been - ~
appears 10 have the detectives ami
police badly fright,ne they refuse
TO search save IN pairs.
: For week IN. rObber has been
busy in Pittsburg, ccnfning his opera.
tions 10 a radius OF a mile The DIS
,trict has been alive with uniformed
Police, detectives ana plain clothes
men, but the result each morning has
simply been reports of further depre-
cations during the night right under
the nose Of the officers. who have
been told To get that highwayman
OF get OF the joo."
The entire day and night zee were
turned loose in the Oakl. district
! Friday morning. Chief OF Police Me
| N(NdlN dI'i NdBi, VI iJtNtA AlNtS lslulbi'
took charge of the central police sta
ton in the evening Even the office
help We're armed with badges and
guns and sent out 10 get the bandit.
{ The detectives reported each hour b.
phone.
Detectives Escaped
Up 10 10 O'Clock all went well. Then
lCame a call by phone. Capt. Elmore
took up che receiver, and presently
hung it up and said excitedly TO CHIEF
/ McQuaid. My God, chief. he's done
II again. Melwood Pharmacy this
time
He didn't hold up any Of the de-
ltectiyes. did he" asked McQualG.
Maybe we'd better SEMI out a gen.
eral order for the boys to play safe.
/ It's no sure thinc tiat be won't hold
them up ior their guns"
4 The scene of Friday nights holdup
was in the heart of the district which
al the same time was being patrollcd
+ by the police and detectives, and
when the man entered the Melwood
Pharmacy, gun in hand, there were
within one square at least four OF
Chief MCQuaid's finest Detectives
Ted Dillon, Jack Dillon, Frank Nor.
gan and former Police Inspector
Henry Whitehouse were within call.
but so quietly was the affair conduct
ed by the highYayman that II was
not until one of the quartet called mp
Headquarters ha'f an hour later tna'
they were informed tina, the bandit
they had been looking for had once
more made holdup and getaway
"Put Up Your Hands"
r. l.. Guthrie. proprietor of the
pharmacy. had just taken up a pre-
scription laid down by a woman Gus
toner at 10 O'Clock at night. \ half
grown Negro boy, Willie Jackson.
was half-asleep on a stool. The door
opened and the boy. looking up. iet
out a yell and rolled under the coun-
ter. Guthrie turned TO find himself
looking into the muzzle OF a revolver.
The woman customer almost
swooned
stand away from that cash regis
ter and put your hands up said the
masked one Keep quiet and you
won't be hurt"
Keeping his man covered with the
to his left hand and with the right
band opened a small cash register on
the counter and poured the contents
into his overcoat pocket. He then
approached the main cash register
near which Guthrie stood with ele-
waited hands, AMI opened 1t.
There was $50 III the drawer all OF
which he took out with one hand ana
placed on a pair Of scales on toe
counter, shook out the bills and
crammed them iuto an overcodt
pocket. Then. shifting the gun to
the other hand. he put the silver into
the other pocket lie then took GuLh
RES watch
As the man started 10 back out OF
the store he noticed 81 bill lying On
the counter near the woman.
Is that your money! he asker
her. but she was too terrified TO speak.
BETTER pick it mp before | get it, ne
added with a laugh as he backed sat
of the store.
Before closing the door he warned
Guthrie. still holding his hands up,
that if he lowered his hands within
Eve minutes after he had left he would
5n0Oi MN lnIOuEn iiit NiuhNN'
Guthrie. as soon as he deemed 1t
safe. tried TO send the boy out 10 give
an alarm. but Willie collapsed at the
hare suggestion. SO Guthrie got the
Lolice department on the phone Forty
minutes later the billions Whitehousc
and Morgan from the detective bureau
rushed i'm TO get the details Of the
.hold-up. which had taken place within
a square Of them.
Menaced by Bulldog.
The hold-up OF Thursday evening
was i'm The drug store OF DR.. j. +.
Brown. Or. f. +. Syphax, who was In
charge was waiting on two women
customers when the bandit came in
hv a side door aud covered them
with his gun and commanded the doc
tor 10 throw MP his hands and the wo.
men to be- seated and keep still. DR.
Syphax had q large bulldog in the
store vita him that evening and the
animal growled and started for the in
trudcr
call that dog back! Call him off or
I'll blow your brains OUT said the
man
The doctor obediently chrruped 10
his dog and kept him by his side
while the robbcr went through the
register and took sS0-all il con
tanned. The man then approached the
doctor 20 get his watch and chain
but was deferred by the threatening
manner of the dog. Then he backed
,,H NJ nf thR door