The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-12-25
Negro Will Taylor Lays Foundation
for Scenario in Attempt to
Throw Blame for Theft.
BURGLED WINDOW OF HOME
HART, SHAFFNER AND MARX
Hurled Big Concrete Biscuit Through
Glass-Chief Fuller Applies
the Screws.

Willie Taylor, ncSro, tho hurlef
of concrete biscuit" through the
show window of Flack and May, tho
"IIome of Hart, Shaffner aud Marx,
yesterday laid the foundation for a
story which would make modern
crook" play or the $ enario for a
very fascinating and sensational
canned" drama IN three reels OF
Universal "hlum'' at five and ten
cents admlsh.
1t was the black art--thc cccul
science, or "hoodoo" tha. was
hung on him that caused Willie
hurt tho concreta chunk through
the window and steal the ovcrcoat-
which he had his eye on fer whole
week.
The hypnotic influence was cXer
cised by two white men. said Tay
lor to Chief Fuller following the ap
plication of the .aeenth spasm 10
the~old gloom room, "Dey made me
TUX It. said VIII. s.s--~s.- q.
And here follows the remarkable
grotesGue, mystic part Of the ma
riners yam. "Quick with tn
needle, Watson
Two well-dressed white men me
Taylor Tuesday afternoon ant
placed him under the dooeTte G.
the hypnotic eye. BY suggestion h
was forced to tho Ohio levee an
there he picked out a biz hunk
concrete lying on the outer slope
the leYee. Then tho two men too
him to The halliday ho cl. On
with a gun pointed at his head re
maincd outside while the 9th,
went into the hotel with a note fo
a third party. Following the de'iy
cry of the note, the two placed hir
under a powerful spell and left hin
Earl. Yesterday morning fail
again met the men and tocothe'
they went up to the levcC. force
him to pick up the rock, take it {
the corner of Flaek and May an
there standing back about ten fee
raise 1t over mis- head and hurl
against the big north plate windos
with such force as to pass throus
the heavy glass to The other sids
where it struck the wind w, it
force having been broken by tn
display of clothing NJ the window
with a big opening Willie dragget
over to the side a lay figure upoi
which was displayed handsom
Hart, Shaftncr and Max b;own ker
sey, English overcoat With shaw
collar and fined with a handsome
brown serge, valued at S30. 90 Care
fully taking the coat from the forf
Taylor evidently straighway took
to Marablc's 0.d stand on Washing
ton avenue and there hid it betwee
the fence on the north side of th
building and the building itsel
where it was found at s 30 in th
morning by ore OF LaEIue Il Others
workmen and returned 10 Flack an,
May.
The robbery was discovered abou
8 o'clock a. m. by several Tllinoi
Central negro porters who had jus
arrived in the city on their runs. A.
they were passing by the store the,
saw the broken window and notifie,
the police. The dogs were calif
into requisition and they took
trail from the concrete chunk whic'
led them down finally to Cairo point
Taylor was arrested about
O'Clock yesterday afternoon by Chic
Fuller who also took the trail an
II was but few minutes after TIL
chief put tic screws to Willie tha
he squealed giving out the story de
tailed above as a reason for stealin
the coat. The negro, in addition +
possessing immcd crate nerve has
very vivid imagination superinduce
by his coNaine whiting prepensi
ties.