The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-10-09
THIEVES VISIT
DOCTORS HOME
Every Room il Searched, Bureau
Drawers Entered and Beds Torn
Up While Physician and His
Mother are out Visiting Search
For Money Was Fruitless.

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man who broke into and robbed the
store of w. +. Taylor, the druggist
at 1913 Washington avenue early
Sunday morning The name of the
man is Frank Southall,, and he re-
sided upstairs in the Bourgeois block.
After placed in Jail he confessed to
the robbery
Entrance was gained at the rear
of the store by cutting out screen
and forcing open door A number
of articles were taken, tooth brushes.
tooth powder morphine tablets and
ten cent bank in which was $3.50 in
dimes. The bank was taken, into
the closet and broken open and the
money abstracted The poison case
was opened and Judging from its ap-
pearance Mr.. Taylor decided that
the robber had been through 1t for
certain kind of drug which he took
to be cocaine. The stock OF cocaine
had been depleted.
On the cash register platform a.
small quantity of red mercury had
been accidentally spilled. On In
vestigation Sunday morning druggist
Taylor suspected that the robbery
had been committed by a man who
had been in the store several times
during the day and evening trying
TO induce Taylor to give him some
cocaine, which the druggist says he
refused to do, without an order from
q physician. This man was Frank
Southall. who lived upstairs in the
eame building in which the drug
store is located The police were
called and officers Egan and Hawley
responded They and the proprietor
of the store went to Southall's
room where they found him asleep.
In the room Taylor noticed on the
floor a small quantity of red mercury
also some Of the drug on the bed
clothes,
Southall was aroused from his
stupor having taken some of the
drug or morphine. The officers took
him to jail, He later confessed to
the burglary stating that he was so
wild with the desire for cocaine that
he just could not help it. He ad-
mitted having been in the drug store
three different times during the
night trying to find the drug. He
strenuously denies having taken the
money bank or anything else but the
drug.
Physicians Home Robbed.
burglar entered the residence of
DR.. d. A. Stevens, 217 Seventh street
Mrs. Williamson's cottage) some
time during last night between the
hours of 7 and 10:30 o'clock while
the physician and his mother were
out visiting friends. When they re-
turned home they found everything
in the house had been ransacked, the
contents of all the drawers had been
dumped out upon the floor and the
mattresses and bed clothing had all
been turned back by the burglar, who
had evidently been searching only
for money or jewelry; as the doctor
and his mother had with them their
money and valuables the burglar
W.
went away empty handed. Nothing
in the house was missed. N@
The burglar gained entrance
through resf window against
which was bed which she had to
climb over. lie made his exit by
opening rear door
Broken Glass Causes Arrest.
A crash Of glass attracted the at
i tention of men who w&b passing
near the New Ykrk StQr}k kkl903 cox1e
mercial avenuex yestsfday afternoon.
and he saw twt negroes apparently
b trying to get i8to th4t front door Of
( the dry goods tepartim8ht. He mo-
%Itined the polic{ but before they. arr
rived one of tfe negroSs ran away
The other giving his name ~ Leon
sard Daudermah was captured anff
placed in Jail, 4 II =
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