The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11
masked MAN SHOWS Nerve
John Gable, Arthur McCaffrey ana
Warren McAllister Give Bold Robber
Small Change But Save Roll by
Dropping 1t Into the Automobile.

A bold highwayman riding the
North Shore road between Racine and
Kenosha late last night held up party
of three Kenosha automobiles and
managed to get away from them some
thing like $2.40 after he had scared
them out of several years growth.
The three Kenosha men had driven to
Racine to spend the evening and they
were returning when the robbery took
place just south of Lakeside. 1t had
all the thrills of a border drama and
the friends of the boys are being re-
called with the interesting story of
it today.
Cable, who is an expert in handling
an automobile, was driving the car and
Just as he came to a rather deserted
turn in the road he saw man stand
ing in the road ahead of him waving
his arms. The man appeared to be in
toxicated. He did not turn his face
toward the automobile and his shouts
caused Gable to stop his car to make
an investigation. Just as the automo-
bile came to stop Cable and his
friends looked into the muzzles of two
revolvers. "Throw up your hands, "
commanded the man on the road and
without the least hoW of resistance
the Kenosha men raised their hands.
"Now get out Of that gasoline buggy
and stand up along the road" was the
second command of the highway man.
The three Kenoshans were just as
quick to follow the command, but one
of them in stumbling out of the auto
mobile managed to get his hand into
one pocket and roll of bills which
had been reposing there awaiting the
coming of the bandit IS search was
carelessly dropped into the bottom of
the automobile.
The men took their positions just as
the lone bandit ordered them to do.
81 hate to do this he commented as
he started to frisk the pockets of
Whitley" Cable. Cable only laugh
ed and told the fellow to 90 as far as
he liked. McAllister was the next to
get under the eagle eye of the robber
and Mccartney who was left to the last
yielded the larger amount of the booty.
After the man had finished frisking
the pockets of the three luckless Ke-
nosha men he examined the change
under fashlight. "You are bunch
of cheap ones /" was his comment.
While all this interesting little
comedy was being enacted Herman
Schmidt, milk dealer who lives in
the town of Somers, came along He
made as if to stop, but the warning
revolver Of the road agent was leveled
in his direction and Schmidt Just
rambled right along in his car. He
managed to pick up the details of
the robbery later
The Kenosha men could give no ade-
quate description of the highwayman.
He appeared to have on either light
summer suit or a suit of white overalis.
His face was carefully concealed BY a
mask made out of a white handker-
chief and he was careful to see that
the men did not get as much as a
peek at his face.
Cable and his friends after they
were allowed to lower their arms,
clambored back into the automobile
and hurried on to Kenosha. No re-
port of the holdup was made to the
police in either Racine or Kenosha.
It is thought that the man who held
up the Kenosha men is one of the band
of bandits which has been working the
roads between Milwaukee and Keno
sha for the past three months. They
have pulled off a score of robberies.
Arrests made in Milwaukee recently
were expected to put an end to the
road holdups, but evidently the Mil
waukee police did not get all of tbe
members of the band of robbers.