The Detroit times., 1910-03-02
MASKED ROBBER
BATTLES POLICE
Fashionable Residence District in
Pittsburg on Verge of Panic
Man or Woman 80 -.


lcnable Oakland residence district OF
Pittsburg is on the verge OF panic
over the operations of a masked high.
possibly highwaywoman.
AT the same time the depredator. who
is described as young and active
the face has never yet been seen
appears 10 have the detectives and
police badly frightened: they refuse
10 search save ~ pairs.
For a week thu robber has been
busy in Pittsburg. ccntining his opera.
tions 10 radius OF mile. The dis.
trict has been alive with uniformed
police. detectives ond 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 havc
been told 10 get that highwayman
or get of the ioo
The entire day and night force were
turned loose in the Oakland district
Friday morning Chief OF Police Nc
QUAD ani Capt. Of Detectives Elmore
took charge OF the central police sta.
tlon in the evening Even the Office
help were armed with badges and
guns and sent out 20 get the bandit.
The detectives reported each hour by
phone.
Detectives Escaped.
Up 10 10 o'clock all went well Then
came a call by phone. Capt Elmore
took up the receiver. and presently
hung II up and said excltedly 10 Chief
McQuaid. My God. chief he's done
II again! Melwood Pharmacy this
time
He didn't hold up any OF the de-
tectives, did he? asked McQuaic.
Maybe we'd better send out gen
eral order for the boys 10 play safe
It's no sure thinS q al he won't hoId
them up for their guns
The scene OF Friday nights holdup
was In the heart n the district which
at the same time was being patrolled
by the police and detectives, and
when the man entered the Melwood
Pharmacy, gun in hand, there were
within one square al least four OF
Chief McOuaidS 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 highvayman that II was
not until one OF the quartet called up
headquarters. half an hour later. tha,
they were informed thas the bandit
they had been looking for had once
more made a hoidup and getaway.
"put Up Your Hands"
~ /. Guthrie. proprietor OF the
pharmacy, had Just taken up pre-
scription laid down by woman Gus
toner at 10 o'clock az night half
grown Negro boy, Willie Jackson,
was half-asleep On a stool. The door
opened and the boy, looking up. let
out a yell and rolled under the couh-
ter. Guthrie turned 10 find himself
looking into the muzzle OF a revolver
The woman customer almos'
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 T"
Keeping his man covered with the
revolver. the bandit shifted the gua
10 his left hand and with the right
hand opened a small cash register On
the counter and poured the contents
into his oyercoat pocket. He then
approached the main cash register
near VIII ch Guthrie stood with eie
yated hands, and opened IT,
There was s3j III the drawer, all OF
which he took out with one hand ana
placed On a pair of scales on the
counter. shook out the bills AMI
crammed them into an oyercoa'
nocket. Then. shifting the gun &c
the other hand. he put the silver int
the other pocket He then TOOK GuIh
rie's watch
AS the man started 10 back out 81
The store he noticed a s. bill lying q
tho counter near the woman
..Is that your money" he aske1
bar but ghe was too terrified 10 speak
"petter pick II up before | get II, ht
added with a laugh as he backed 'a'
Of the store. o4
Guthrie. still holding his hands up
that n he lowered his hands ~itnlI
ave minutes after he had left he wouIc
shoot him through the window.
Guthrie. as soon as he deemed
safe tried 10 send the boy out 70 glv'
an alarm but Willie collapsed at th'
bare suggestion. So Guthrie got th'
nolice department on the phone Fort
minutes later the billions WhitehouS
and Morgan from the detective ourea
rushed in 20 get the details OF IN
hold-up. which had taken place "''A'
square Of them.
Menaced by Bulldog.
The hold-up Of Thursday evenin
vas in he drug store OF Dr. D.
| Grown Dr +. r. SyphaX, VINO was
charge. vas waiting on two Woine
customers when the bandit came
nv A side door aud covered then
With his Gun and commanded the doC
tor TO throw up his hands and the We
men 10 be seated and keep still. III
syphax had Q large bulldog IN IN
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