Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-04
THREE ARRESTED
. FOR ROBBERY JOB
Gust Dahlcn Held Up and Frisked on
Street and Suspects Are Being
Held at Police Station.

Gust Dahlen. 40 years old. S31 Fiji
teenth street b, Moline, was held up
and robbed at Third avenue and Fit
teenth street, shortly after II o'clock
Saturday evening.
Three men are locked up in the Mo-
line city Jail today charged with hold
ing up and robbing Dahlen. They
were arrested at-Lehman's restaurant,
1912 Fourth avenue, less than two
blocks from the holdup, five minutes
after Dahlen was robbed. The men
are:
c. NJ. Small, 81 years old; no home.
Dan Coonan, 81 years old; Fourth
avenue and Nineteenth street.
Joe Jackson, q years old; Fourth
avenue and Nineteenth street.
Small, Coonan and Jackson were
arraigned in Moline police court this
morning on charges Of robbery. Each
OF them plead not guilty and vehe-
mently denied being implicated in the
robbery of Dahlen.
Magistrate Gustafson continued the
case until 2 o'clock tomorrow after
noon. Bail was fixed at $1,000 each,
which the defendants were unable to
furnish.
Dahlen picked Small from five men
locked up in the city Jail as the man
who held and nearly choked him
while two other men went through
his pockets. Dahlen was unable to
positively identify Coonan and Jack
son.
The men were arrested by Railway
Traffic Officer John George Coburn,
following chase of several blocks
Officer Coburn says he believes Coo
nan. Small and Jackson are the men
who robbed Dahlen. Coburn saw the
three men shortly after Dahlen had
been robbed running from the place
where Dahlen was crying for help.
Those three men, who passed him on
Fifteenth street, 100 feet from Third
avenue, are. said Coburn, the men
locked up In the city Jail ON charges
OF robbery
1t was about 11:10 Saturday even
ing when Dahlen stepped from the
car at Third avenue and Fifteenth
street. The car was the border spe-
cial, the car that leaves Third ave-
nue. and First street shortly after the
saloons at the border close.
Dahlen had been drinking. He had
walked a few feet when a man STEP
ped up to him and without a worl
began choking him. Two others
searched him, taking all the money
he had left. 1t amounted to about
$3.50.
Dahlen cried for help. Coburn, who
had stepped from the same car AMI
, was about 100 feet ahead, heard the
cry. He turned back. Three men
passed him, running.
Il ran back to Third avenue where
Dahlen was standing" said Coburn
He told me three men had held him
up and robbed him. l thought of the
three men who had just passed me.
Il turned back again and followed
the men. They were running about q
! half block ahead of me. One OF them
ran across the railroad tracks, two
turned down Third avenue A and over
/ to Sixteenth street. l went on Fiji.
q teenth street to Fourth avenue anG
over to Sixteenth. Then l saw two
men run past the park and into res
! taurant l went over to the restaur.
ant. In the restaurant l found the
/ three men who are locked up now"
Dahlen's pocketbook, it is alleged
was found lying just outside the res
taurant. The men were eating wher
Coburn and Officer Walline, whom the
traffic officer had called, entered thu
restaurant.
The men deny being together Satur
day evening. The state says, however
that it will produce witness who saw
them together in Hansen's saloon OF
Forty-sixth street, Rock Island. The.
were nearly elected for noisy ant
rough conduct, according to this wit
ness.
The youngest of the men charged
with robbery is Joe Jackson, q year
old He is very youthful in appear
ance, and could pass for IS, years
Jackson has innocent-looking features
is pink checked and smooth faced
Coonan and Small are just the oppo
site in appearance. They are to judg
from their faces, of the type gener
ally classed as Migrants or hoboes.