South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-08-07

been down grade, but this was not known
70 their associates. The fact that a sales
man who carried, as they knew. this large
stock in diamonds could so easily become
their victim. the thought OF so much
wealth almost within their hands. had
somehow brought out in all of them the
violet dark spot of criminality and had
brought them together for the plotting of
the deed as quickly and surely as II they
had all been members of a professional
gang of thieves
After close detective work the three
men concerned in the robbery were
traced. One was n medical student. an
other was an idler posing as medical
student and the third man had boz
assistant clerk in a hotel at which the
salesman had stopped on previous trips TO
Atlanta. The clerk had a passion for
diamonds and had bought one or two o.
them of the salesman on other occasions.
The $4,000 worth of diamonds was
planted in different places. The medical
student Immediately got married on the
strength of his share Of the loot and was
arrested in New Orleans while on his
honeymoon. One of the other men was
followed to Mount Vernon. y. 7. lie was
arranging to go TO Europe. The third man
was taken at Birmingham, Ala.
After the capture q peculiar situation
arose, for it was discovered that in
Georgia the penalty for committing rob
berry even of this magnitude is only enc
years Imprisonment The penalty for
stealing a horse is SO much greater that
the Union tried to have the men tried for
stealing the transfer company's horse As
the horse had been taken only a few
blocks and then recovered by the company
this was impossible. and the Union had 10
be content with the short term sentence
and the recovery of the jewels.
Work of the Alliance.
Tie jewelers. Security Alliance has re-
Gently run to earth the thieves who in
February last broke into the establish
ment of Philip Preston, on the second
floor of the twelve story Chamber of
Commerce Building at Rochester, y. Y.
The men escaped with $4,000 worth Of
jewels from salesmen's trunks, but bad
their plans carried they would have got
ten away with much more valuable prop
erty, for they had taken steps TO blow
open the safe, which was prevented by an
accident to one of the band
Five masked bandits swooped down
upon the building in the dead of night.
They first smashed a lock on the massive
iron gate which guarded the entrance.
They then placed lock on the inside Of
the protecting gate to secure themselves
from interruption. After they had thus
protected themselves from intrusion from
without the robbers stole upon the en-
gineer and fireman in the engine room
and surprised and overpowered them
Leaving one of their band on guard, the
where they placed a charge of dynamite
around one of the largest safes, which
contained thousands of dollars worth Of
jewelry. Using heavy blankets 70 muffle
the explosion, they proceeded 20 blow
open the outer doors. At this point one
of the burglars was so badly injured pre-
sumably by the explosion, that the others
lost heart, and without waiting TO force
open the inner doors Of the strong box
they departed in haste, taking with them
what they could gather from the exposed
Jewels and salesmen's trunks.
A grip containing a wOman's photo
graph, which one Of the burglars had left
in the station in his haste TO set ont OF
town, was the slender clev on which the
detectives worked in this case. The chase
led to Youngstown, Ohio. where the pict
ure was identified as that Of the wife Of
Bert" Donaldson. Through watching
the wOman's mail the route taken by the
burglars was discovered, and after chase
of nearly five months the Alliance has
now another triumph 10 its credit