The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-01-03
COLLEGE MAN Z.
STEALS DIAMONDS
Delaware Youtht Attempts
Bold Robbery.
DRIVEN TO DESPERATION
Debts Falling Due Jan. l,
The Cause.
TO DESPERATION
Robert r. Crist Holds up Miss Krause
In Bowers Store--Sf, 900 Worth Of
Diamonds Takcn--Fast Life at Col
lego.
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As bold hold-up and robbery as
was eyer perpctrated In the wild west
i'm its palmiest day was pulled off in
c. w. Bowers jewelry store, just be-
fore the noon hour today, when Rob
ert p. Crst, freshman at Ohio Wes-
leyan university, single handed, forced
Miss Ethel Krause, at the point of a
revolver to hand over to him the tray
of diamonds which was in the show
window The fellow was later cap
tured in the rear of Kaler's confec-
tionery store on west Center street.
by a posse of citizens who went in
pursuit of the fellow.
1t was about 1880 o'clock when Mr.
and Mrs. Bowers went to dining hall
for lunch. They had been gone pro-
badly ten or fifteen minutes when a
stranger, young lNln apparently not
more than twenty-one years of age,
dressed in a gray overcoat and hat OF
the same color, entered the store and
addressing Miss Krause, who was
alone at the time. stating that he had
received some Christmas money and
Miss Krause informed him that she
never shows the diamonds and that
Mr. Bowers would return in a few
minutes. The fellow left the store and
was gone but few minutes when he
returned. Miss Krause walked up to
the show case to wait upon him and
was confronted with a revolver showed
into her face. The fellow said to her:
Don't you scream, or I'll Kill you.
You go to that window and get me
that tray of diamonds"
Miss Krause was so taken by sur
prise that she hardly realized what
she was doing and replied to his de-
mand:
"Why. man, what are you doing?'
The fellow still keeping the revolver
pointing directly in Miss Krause's face
came around the show case and forced
her to go to the window and get the
tray of diamonds and had them over
to him. Then he darted out of the
store and ran south to the alley be-
tween Charles Bausinger's place OF
business and the Light house He
ran east in this alley to the intersec-
ton of the alley running north and
south just west OF Strayer's drug
store.
By this time Miss Krause had got
ten to the door and given the alarm.
There were a number of men in the
alley near the Fogleson repair shop
and when the thief saw that he was
deaded off in that direction. he drew
his gun from his pocket and informed
them they had best let him alone.
The men were dazed by the sudden
action and did not care to jump righ'
into "A fellow with a loaded revolver
| The fellow then turned and ran wes'
in the alley In which he had come
crossed Main street and continued
west across Prospect street with quite
a number OF men In pursuit The
posse had divided, one bunch of mer
| going to Center street and then west
| another TO Church street and west II
order to apprehend the fellow shoulo
he endeavor to dodge out anw of the
| intersecting streets or alleys whllt
| the main part of the crowd followed
down the alley When the fellow
| came TO the blind alley in the rear o
| Kaler's confectionery store, he ran vi
| a few steps In one stairway and saw
that he had been cornered. He tire"
up his hands and gave himself up
| Samuel Smith, was the first man t'
| the fellow and he was taken to police
HEADQUARTERS and was turned over u
the police.
When captured the fellow did no
have the tray of diamonds and state'
that he had fallen in the alley AM
supposed he had dropped them then
| Further searching revealed the dia