Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-12-12
A BOLD ROBBERY
Jewelry Store Window Of Mr..
Robert L. Chance Broken into
and Robbed.
TEN GOLD WATCHES STOLEN.
Robbery Committed in Daring Manner
Under Electric Light on Main
Street a Public Highway.

Somebody not very far away needs
to have "time" called on them. In
deed, somebody has more time on their
hands than they know what to do
with, and if they attempt to get rid
of time they will probably do time in
the county Jail, until they walk out
some time like Hockey" Green did
one time.
Time and tide waits for no man, and
the man who robbed Chances iewelry
store last night or early this morning,
took time by the forelock and Incl
dentally eight or ten watches that
keep good time.
The jewelry store window plate
glass one-quarter of an inch thick,
was broken into this morning between
2 and 230 O'Clock, and robbed of eight
or ten watches and lot of jewelry, of
which a complete inventory has not
yet been taken. There were no dia-
monds in the window, these precious
stones being locked in the safe.
Mr.. Chances jewelry store is To-
Gated at the corner of Main street and
Hyde alley, and is at the very centre
of the most public highway in town.
Directly above the show window is
an electric light that burns all night,
and the light in the store also burns
all night.
That anyone could commit rob-
berry so bold and daring with bright
electric light shining down on them at
publit corner is what mystifies most
people. Then, too, the electric cars
of the W., B. & A. run down Main
street and pass this jewelry store.
The last car, however, passed a few
minutes before l O'Clock, and the rob-
berry must have been committed short
ly after 2 o'clock this morning as the
police officer on this beat passed the
store at a. m. and discovered moth
ing amiss.
At 2.30 o'clock the alarm was
given at Mr.. Chances home on Con-
duit street that his store had been
robbed, the police having made the
discovery in the second round after 2
O'Clock, and between that hour and
$50 the robbery was committed.
The window was broken from the
side on Hyde Alley. A brick was
taken from a pile on the sidewalk
under the window used in repairs.
The brick was evidently muffled
and a large nail was used. The
force of the blow of the brick on
the nail broke the quarter inch plate
glass and smashed it. The robber
lifted piece of glass from the side,
that part of the window measuring 12
or IA inches in width.
So quietly was it all done that the
noise did not disturb the persons Sleep
ing in the room over the store nor did
the bakers in Smiths bakery in the
alley nearby, who were making bread
for today, hear any unusual sound.
The police, however, officers Jackson
and Freeman, heard a noise like the
slamming of door, and began an in
vestigation and discovered the broken
window. What puzzles Mr.. Chance,
the proprietor of the jewelry store, is
that the thief reached over a tray on
which was jewelry value at $500 and
stole the watches.
Time seemed to bear upon his mind,
and it may take some time to catch
the thief, but not if the detectives of
the Jewelry Association, the best in
the country, get on his trail. The
robbery is the boldest and most daring
committed here for some time but is
the third time Mr.. Chance has been
robbed, and once an attempt was made
to rob him, but was unsuccessful.
This time last year the window of
the pawn shop of Louis Stern, on
Market Space was robbed, and not
long since an entrance was effected in
the rear of Isaac Benesch & Sons, but
nothing of value was stolen. A de-
scription of the stolen articles is fur
nished the detective department.
Mr.. Chance values the stolen arti-
ces at about 500. There were in
all eight watches stolen, two solid
gold and six silver watches, four
mems and four ladies' watches. EMr.
Chance is insured in the Burglar
and Security Company, of New York.
Mr.. Chance thinks he made a lucky
escape, as there was jewelry in the
| window to the amount of over $500,
and why the thief should have allowed
| diamond lockets and beautiful rings
to escape, is a mystery. A strange
/ white man, suspected of the robbery,
ate luncheon last night in a Mair