Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-04
Most Daring of Chicago
RObberies is Commit
ted in Daylight.
$1,000 JEWELRY HAUL
Escape Is Made in Speeding Car
After a Revolver Battle
With the Police.

Chicago, Jan. FIFTY detectives
searched today for four automobile
bandits who invaded tie downtown dis
tTict last night after robbing a North
side jewelry store of $1,000 worth of
diamonds, fought two revolver battles
with police and caused terror to pc
destrians by firing on crowds OF shop
pers on one of the principal streets.
Patrolman Stricken, who attempted to
arrest the robbers because they had
no taillight on their automobile. and
was shot and beaten, was reported in
serious condition today Thomas
Brady, S3, and Frank O'Brien. 81, were
arrested in East Chicago on suspi-
cion.
A roundup of suspicious characters
resulted in the arrest OF 80 men.
WOMAN AIDS ESCAPE.
The four automobile bandits smash
ed in a jewelers. window and escaped
with a tray of diamonds, after run
hing revolver fight with police, pune
tuated by spectacular features. Their
escape was aided by a fashionably
dressed woman, who tainted in the
arms of a uniformed policeman as he
was drawing his revolver. AS soon as
the thieves were out of sight the wo-
man recovered herself and disap-
peared.
A few minutes later the bandits
car was boarded by a policeman, who
ordered thsm-to drive to police sta
ton for speeding They wheeled into
quiet street with the policeman and
there shot, stabbed and slugged him
and threw him off the car.
The men abandoned their machine
and disappeared in crowded section
of the west side. The raid and run.
ming fight was one of the most thrill
/ ing of the automobile bandit outrages
| in the recent prevalence of this type
/ Of crime in this city.
| HAD STOLEN CAR.
The thieves stole the var in front
/ oe a downtown business building late
| in the afternoon A short time later
passers in front of a Clark street
| jewelry store were startled by the fall
OF glass. Two men were beating in
the window with brick. They seized
a tray of rings and leaped to the run
ming board of an automobile that was
moving slowly by the curb.
Policeman Charles Hansen ran up
reaching for his revolver, but at that
moment woman with a large feather
ell hat gave shrek and threw her
self into his arms. Hanson could not
draw his weapon, but two policemen
in plain clothes WS~O were passing,
opened fire on the robbers. The ban
dts returned the fire az they clam
bered into the car and one of the
thieves was seen to fall into a seat aHd
is thought to have been wounded.
A REVOLVER BATTLE.
Twenty shots were exchanged IS
the machine gathered speed. The
chauffeur opened his exhaust so that
1t poured out cloud o. smoke which
aided in the escape. The pain
clothes men ran after the car end at
the next corner commanded a pass
ing high powered automobile to stop
and ordered it's chauffeur to pursue
the thieves, who, however, had 80
good a start that they escaped. The
bandits car was stopped by Police
man Charles Sticken in traffic jam
few blocks from the scene of the
robbery.
sticken arrested the chauffeur fot
speeding.
Jump in old man and wen take
you to he station" said one of the
. men to Stfcken
POLICEMAN BEATEN UP.
The policeman stood on the run
/ mig board ard told the chauffeur
; which way to go The chauffeur took
, wrong turn into LaSalle avenue.
StIcken turned to prCtest and received
stab with a knife over the left eye.
blow in the back of the head and
shot in the leg, and was hurled from
the car. The thieves free several
more shots at Sticken as he lay in III"
street. He raised himself on his ell
bow and fired several times at tho
feeing car. The thieves fired several
II orc shots and alco turned their re-
vclverg on citizens they pagsed in their
fight. None OF these was struck by
bullets.