The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-01-18
HEAD Of CHICAGO
AUTOBUCCANEERS
IS ONLY A YOUTH
James A. Perry, Is Years Old, Cap.
tured and Makes Full Con.
fession Of Crimes.
ADMITS TWENTY oFTENsEs
Chicago Police Astounded At Con.
fession-Police Round Up to
Check Crime Wave.
ADMITS TWENTY oFTENsEs

Yesterday that he and three COM
pan.ons were the auto bandits who
have been terrorizins the city for
the last month. He said he sh1t
Fred ". Stocken, the policeman, IN
Ia battle following the daring North
Clark street iewelry robbery.
His story is replete with grim
humor.
Perry confessed to twenty hold
nps and robberies
My first holdup was Martin
Earnhart. assistant states attorney.
at North Clark street and Diversey
boulevard" Perry said. HE WAS
roing into his house | stuck a gun
under his nose and took away some
money and a meal ticket. tore up
The ticket
~ was the fellow who fired four
bullets at Policeman Sticken. lie
was half down. half up. didn't
take any advantage Of him. He WAS
blazing away at me all the time.
Ito is pretty game guy. take It
from me.
I'VE made our getaway and !
went down to 43 Grand boulevard to
Mrs Glassers place. ! stuck up
that place,
Il put mp my gun to her when
she screamed aud she quit,
n pulled off about twenty rob
berries and purglarles didn't start
lin this business until November
II am not going to tell YOU how T
cot into this game ] am not going
t. tell you who was with me And
| / went tell why I got into the
eare But can tell you 1t was not
al honey
SIN the fellow that held up
John Shean at Thlrty-eighth street
and Grand boulevard. l took away
gold watch. s64. stickpin and his
Ioverccat. found chicken sand
wiches in his pocket gave them
| back to him. I'm not such bad
guy.
II held up Stems jewe1ry store.
That was just before ! shot the
copper, Myself and the rest of the
gang held up the San Francisco res
tanrant aud we went to Charles
Bensons place and held that up.
Then we went to Sherman's del
icatessen store and held that up
"There were hundreds of people
in Sixty-first street that night we
threw the brick in Mellish's store.
| II didn't take long.
we went by the "Haipln's Rifles"
Itight after that Job.
II said Go It, old birds, you'll
never get u.s.
Ioked Halpin BY Phone.
Il kidded the life out OF Halpin
BY phone. Maybe you think we
didn't laugh at his dope, He ought
to be a Handicapped for a race track.
He's good.
81 held up place cut in Rogers
Park and woman hit me In the
face with mop. Just for fun /
shot out the lights.
Il won't tell who my folks are
I'm only eighteen and I'm not going
to bring nv family into this
The nonchalant manner in which
the Young bandit told of these series
of amazing crimes amazing in the
boldness of their conception and in
the boldness with which they were
carried out-staggered even the
police
Hunt Paroled Convict.
A man known as Robert Webb, on
parole from the Pontiac reformatory,
was being sought today. He is
thought to have been another mem
Der of the bandit band and is said to
have been implicated in the confess
sion,
The police before they obtained
the confession tried hard to fasten
two particular automobile hoidups
| on Scott and Bartzen. These were
the robberies of the Sherman del
icatessen store at 312 East Garfield
boulevard and the robbery of the
Benson store at 3OS East Fifty
leighth street.
H. Benson and hia wife. Mrs.
Esther Benson, who were in the
fstore on the night Of December 5.
when the bandits entered and
robbed them, called at the police
station to look at the prisoners
The roliee would not tell what Ben.
son said and when the latter wa
seen today he refused TO ten whether
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