The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-02-01
BOY ROBBERS
| CAUGHT after
SMOOTH STUNT
TWO YOUTHS WHO ESCAPED
FROM NASHVILLE POLICE BE-
GIN OPERATIONS HERE.
RANSACKED 7. H. GRIzzARD HOME
Police Take Quick Action and Soon
Land Them In Lock-Up--Interest
ing Characters and Evidently Ex-
perienced In Their Work.
RANSACKED 7. H. GRIzzARD HOME

Two boys believed to be exper
housebreakers land robbers, ant
the ones who made a remarkable
escape from the Nashville police &
few days ago, were arrested last nigh
at the Union depot by Patrolmen Will
Lancaster and Whit Hight following a
long chase and search after the resi-
dence of T. H. Grizzard on West
Seventh street had been ransacked
and robbed earlier in the night.
One of the boys appeared to be
about II or Is years old and the other
about IA or Is. They were roughly
dressed and wore caps. At the time
they were arrested they had tickets
for Birmingham in their pockets and
also skeleton keys, knife battered
in such way that the blades would
open only half way, money, pair
of opera glasses, fountain pens, a
ladys watch and other articles taken
from the Grizzard home.
The work of Patrolmen Lancaster
and Hight in quickly running down
| and catching these clever young rob-
bers was highly efficient. They re-
ceived the call shortly before nine
o'clock and by 1890 they had the
boys, after a difficult search, in a
cell at the police station.
The older boy was noncommital, but
the younger one broke down under
the questions of Patrolman Lancaster
and made confessions. He said at
first that his name was Albert BERN
and the other boys name was Lewis
Hellson. Later he said that they were
named Darrow, that they were broth
ers and that their home is at 1888
Sixteenth avenue, Chicago. The
names of the boys who escaped from
the Nashville police were given as
Nathan Hilson and Abe Bein, but
their descriptions fit those of the boys
held here.
The robbery of the Grizzard home
was one of the boldest and cleverest
ever pulled off in Columbia, according
to the police. Mr.. and Mrs. Grizzard
returned at $50 o'clock from the
First Presbyterian church where they
had been attending prayer meeting,
when they found all of the window
shades in the house drawn down and
the rooms from cellar to attic ran
sacked. The robbers had prepared
and eaten meal in the kitchen, but
evidently had been frightened away
before completing their repast, eight
eggs being left boiling on the range in
which they had replenished the fire
that was left from supper cooking
They had also attempted to light
coal-oil stove.
Entrance was gained through a
kitchen window and after drawing the
shades the robbers used candles they
found in the kitchen to search the
house. They ransacked every nook
and corner of each room, scattering
papers, stlverward ornaments and
furniture at random Mrs. Grizzard
missed $22 in money, pair of opera
glasses, her watch, several rings, and
other small pieces of jewelry. None
of the silver was stolen. Some of the
money, the opera glasses and watch
were taken from the boys last night
A mans watch chain belonging to Mr.
Grizzard had been attached to the
watch and the lady's chain removed.
Mrs Grizzard said this morning that
when she read in a Nashville paper
two days ago about the escape of the
boys from the police there she re-
marked that "those boys are headed
for Columbia" But l didn't know
they were headed for my house." she
said.
Patrolmen Lancaster and Hight an
swered a call from the Grizzard home
at about 9 o'clock. They realized i'm
mediately upon entering the house
that it had been robbed by experts
who would lose no time in getting out
of town. so they went at once toward
tho railroad yards in the direction Of
tracks they found near the yard
Crossing over to Ninth street and
down to Galloway by the hospital to
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