The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-01-12
ARREST Of BOY
STOP A BANDIT
RAID AT Dance
Youth Of Is Held After Call for
Stolen Robbers Auto
at Garage.
1p|HE SHIELDS HIS COMPANIONS
Scyen-Hour Third Degree Fails
After Young Tailor is
Identified.


returning last night from the
Arabian Nights Ball, wearing thou
sands of dollars worth of jewels,
were saved from robbery by the auto
bandits by the arrest Of eighteen
year-old Nathan Grossman, by the
police of the Fillmore street station.
Grossman was arrested at the gar
age of George Brooks, West Twelfth
and NVhipple streets, yesterday noon,
when he appeared to claim stolen
auto which had been sent to the
garage for repairs.
Captain Baer s1.d after an exam
ination of Grcssnan lasting several
hours that the boy was one Of the
auto bandits, and that raids on the
Arabian Nights Dali patrons had
undoubtedly been planned.
The police believe that Grossman
planned to get the machine from tho
Brooks garage and, with companions,
follow some unprotected party of be-
jeweled women from the ball at the
First Regiment Armory.
Gives Third Degree
Grossman told 50 many conflicting
stories when taken to the Thirteenth
street station that Capain Bernard
Baer had him transferred to the Fill
more street station and personally
put him through the "third degree. !"
The story to which the prisoner
finally adhered after seven hours
questioning was that. he saw two
strange men abandon the machine
and that he then jumped in to take
a ride. He said, however, that he
had. ridden only short distance
when che machine broke down. He
said he then called the Brooks garage
and called them to have the machine
towed in and repaired. When
asked why he returned to the garage
for the machine, he said that he
wanted TO return it to the place
where he found It, He became hazy
when asked why he had shown a
willingness, amounting almost to a
demand, to pay S. for the repairs
Brooks had made.
"The boy has told pack of lies
Captain Baer after questioning him,
"He says he is only eighteen years
odl, but | will bet hat he is over
twenty-one. He has a small savings
account at the Central Trust &
Savings Bank and this morning
drew from it the S. he wanted to
use to pay for the machine repairs.
Youth is Identified.
Then too, Ray Manning identi-
fed Grossman as the man he saw
running from the machine, on
Mozart avenue, when it was aban-
doned by three men early Friday
morning. Manning's identification
lis positive and is combative to
Grossman's story that he was alone
when he abandoned the machine.
II am certain that he intended to
get the machine, meet his two COM
panions and make wild night of 1t,
with Arabian Nights ball patrons as
victims. In his pockets we found q
sparkling device which is attachable
to any make of automobile. He is
an accomplished chauffeur, though
working for q tailor firm. His en-
| ployers moreover, tell me that he
has not been at work since December
I2f. He has told so many tales and
proved so stubborn In his refusal to
name the two men with whom he
was to go that he will be given
second grilling in the morning.
One statement of his--that he
would have made a real touch II
he had not been arrested--seems Il
me to be pretty good proof that We
have stopped one of the auto bandit
gangs for time at least. Wher
the name of his companions is wrune
from Grossman We will have some
thing definite to work with.
I'VE have found that the car il
question belonged to Milton S
Lamereaux and was stolen from n
front of the Otis Building a weel
ago. ! believe that the car Is tn,
same one used by the bandits II
holding up the Lannes jewelry stor,