The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-18
OECOYS KEEP CLERK AT WORK
Whole Tray of Diamonds With 48 Rings
Taken and Loss Is Not Discovered
Until More Than Five Hours After
the Robbery Had Taken Place.

The boldest daylight robbery in the
history Of Kenosha took place on Sat
urday afternoon when a band of
thieves invaded the jewelry store Of
I. j. Dale on Main street, just north
of Market Square, and they managed
to get away with forty-eight rings set
with diamonds, the cream Of the Dale
stock and valued at between $4,000
and $4,000. The robbery was not dis
covered until more than five hours af
ter the thieves had escaped with their
loot and when the discovery was made
none Of the people connected with the
Dale store could give the police any
clew to the identity of the robbers
1t seems certain that the robbery had
been carefully planned, probably weeks
before it was carried out and it seems
just as certain that the work was
the work of experts.
The only clew that the police have
to work on is a search for q Mr. and
Mrs. H. Morgan who are thought to
have been in the store when the rob
berry was committed. Morgan and his
wife are alleged to have been in close
touch with the thief who got the
jewels and it is thought that they de-
coyed the matchmaker, Raymond
Stark to the back end of the store and
kept him there for a few minutes that
was necessary for their confederate to
slip into the front door of the store,
secure the tray of valuable rings and
escape. Nothing else was touched in
the store. The men who planned the
robbery had evidently determined with
great care the exact location of the
tray they desired and the securing
of it could have been accomplished in
few seconds.
The robbery is thought TO have TAX
en- place about quarter after twelve
0 clock Saturday afternoon, but the
first notification of it reached the po-
lice after six O'Clock Saturday night.
it was after five o'clock in the after
noon that Jeweler Dale discovered that
he had been robbed. There had been
no diamond customers in the store on
Saturday afternoon. Toward night
fail when William Rather, another
clerk in the store, began to re-
arrange the stock for the night trade
he noticed that the tray of diamonds
was missing from the case. Even
then there was no alarm as it was
thought possible that the diamonds
were in the safe. Mr.. Dale had plac-
cd the tray in the case during the day
hut before any report was made to the
police a search Of the safe was made.
This revealed the fact that the dia-
monds were missing. In half an
hour detectives in Chicago and New
York had been notified and the local
police was called in to aid in solving
the mystery.
Raymond Stark, the matchmaker,
who was in the store at the time the
robbery is thought to have taken place,
told his story of his dealings with
the mysterious +" Mr.. Morgan and the
handsomely dressed woman that had
represented herself as his wife.
Proprietor Dale had left the store
to 90 to his dinner at just 1910
O'Clock and in less than a minute af-
ter he had driven away in an automo-
bile tall man, fully six feet tall, en-
tered the place accompanied by an I'M
usually attractive and well dressed
woman. ''I want to see some cut glass
that Mr.. Dale was showing me-" the
man remarked. He spoke excellent
English but it appeared to have a
slight foreign accent. Stark led the
way to the rear of the store where the
cut glass was arranged in wall cases
and the man and woman examined sew
eral pieces. Morgan seemed to be great
" interested. You are not showing
me the same pieces as Mr.. Dale did, -
he remarked and with this he walked
behind the counter standing between
Stark and the front of the store He
reached into the case and pulled down
several articles Of cut glass. All the
time the young woman kept up rapid
fire conversation with Stark and the
customer who was now completely
hiding the front portion of the store.
Morgan kept one hand in his overcoat
pocket all the time he was talking
with Stark and this act appealed to
Stark very strongly later.
After considerable dickering the
man and the woman picked out vase
which was priced $3.50. Now I am
going to make deposit Of dollar
on this vase and / will come and paw
the rest some time between now aud
Christmas the woman said and with
that the man laid dollar on the show
case. "Just mark it H. Morgan the
woman said as she left the store on
the arm of her tall companion. They
did not seem to hurry away and Stark