Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-06-19
IDENTIFY THIEF
TAKEN IN IOWA
Jacob Pollik, Former Rock Island
Crook, is Held By Muscatine
Authorities.

Although Jacob Pollik succeeded
in changing his name enough times
70 battle the police in different
cities in the vicinity, he was I'M
able to change his looks
Pollik was arrested by the police
at Muscatine last Sunday morning
and sentenced to Is days in Jail
on a charge of intoxication. When
he was found he was in a semi
stupor from the effects of dope or
alcohol and was lying in a car con-
tanning articles of clothing which
are believed to be stolen goods.
Sheriff Mccarthy of Washington.
Iowa, was in Rock Island Monday
looking for information concerning
man who committed several rob-
berries in Washington and ether
parts of Iowa. He didn't know the
whereabouts of the thief but had a
good picture OF him in his mind.
The description that the sheriff
gave of the alleged thief was i'm
mediately recognized by Chief of
Police Tom Cox who remembers
the man from several years ago.
Chief Cox said POllik was ar
rested at the Watch Tower in 1916
for picking pockets and that at the
time he gave his name as Col
berg; he seems to have changed his
name in every locality, and il is not
known now whether Pollik is his
real name or not.
At the time he was arrested as a
pickpocket he was also carrying
on robberies in Ainsworth. Iowa,
the loot OF which he brought to
Rock Island and sold to local mer-
chants.
When the sheriff from Washing
ton gave a description of the thief,
Chief OF Police Cox brought out a
photograph of him, which WIS
taken in Rock Island when he was
working under the name of Col
berg 1t was Immediately recog-
ntzed as that of the man who had
been sought in both Iowa and 1IIi-
nOis.
Investigation in Rock Island.
A few days later word was re-
ceived from the authorities at
Muscatine, Iowa, stating t hat
man had been arrested there who
was believed to have been the per
petrator of robberies in Ainsworth
and Orange City The Rock Island
police were notified and an investi-
CATION was Immediately begun here
as to whether or not he was the
man who had stolen goods in Aims
worth and sold them in this city to
the DeEtch second hand store| z22
seventeenth street, last week.
$. Deutch, proprietor Of the
store said that he bought poOdS
from a suspicious person last week
and that he could identify the man
il he were to see him again.
Deutch went to MuscatIne Tues
day and upon seeing the prisoner
who was held there after arrest for
intoxicatio Immediately recOg-
nized him as the man VINO had sold
him goods. believed to have been
stolen in Ainsworth. Deutch said
there is no doubt but that he is the
same person who brought the
goods to Rock island.
Held At Muscatine.
Pollik is being held at Muscatine
and charges are expected to be filed
against him soon accusing him of
the Ainsworth robbery. He also
may be held for robberies commit
ted in Orange City. Sheriff Will
liam Wiersma of Sioux county was
In MusCatfne investigating the case
for the Orange City merchants.
Some of the clothes which were
found on Pollik at the time of the
arrest were carried back by the
sheriff, believed to be a portion of
those stolen from Orange City.