The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-06-13
ARMED men RAID |
STATION At SEW
BLOW SAFE AND ESCAPEI /
WITH ABOUT !
Three Men Make Daring Attaca
Tie Watchman and Two Men
in Telephone Booth.

The safe in the office Of the Cleve-
land, Southwestern ticket Office, at
Seville, was blown about 3:15 A. M.
Sunday by three armed robbers, who
held up the nightwatchman and two
men waiting for an early car and es-
capped with about $1,000 in cash and
liberty bonds. The bonds, which to-
tailed $3.50 were the property Of Will
liam Brumbaugh, the Seville agent,
who was out Of town on a vacation
The two travelers-A. B. Nelson,
1918 East 9th St., Cleveland, and Lazo
Sagzok, home unknown were, to-
gether with the nightwatchman, bound
and gagged and placed in the tele-
phone booth outside the station, the
robbers taking pains to cut all wires.
Nelson was also relieved Of about $50
in cash, while Sagzok's pocket book
contained about $73, which was appro-
priated. .sl
That the yeggs knew the station is
proven by one Of the questions put
to Knecht who was held up at the
door to the station. He was asked
if Barnes was within. Barnes, big
motorman, had been working in the
Office nights recently, and the robbers
seemed to feel that he would give
them fight for their booty. The
men wore masks.
Leaving one man to guard the inn
prisoned men the other two robbers
proceeded to blow the station safe,
doing very neat job, which attests TO
the fact that they were not amateurs
at the game. They obtained $1043
from this safe. The liberty bonds,
which were in filing cabinet, were
removed without an explosion, the
lock being picked. After the robbers
made their departure the three men
succeeded in breaking free from their
confinement in the telephone booth and
a call was sent to the sheriff at Me-
dina, who with his deputy arrived in
Seville shortly after A o'clock.
An inspection Of the premises dis
closed the fact that the robbers had a
heavy touring car waiting for them on
the Leroy road, about 100 rods from
where the street car track crosses it.
4 Tracks Of the three men were plainly
visible going from the car to the sta
ton and back again. Sheriff Bige-
low stated that he was satisfied that
there were five men in the party, two
remaining in the car while the rob
berry was being committed. A Toledo
paper bearing date Of June 8, which
was dropped alongside where the car
stood, leads authorities to believe that
the men were from that city. The
peculiar marks Of the tires were plain
" visible, and lead to Sullivan, where
all trace Of the car was lost.
A call, sent from Seville to the
chief Of police Of Toledo, notifying him
! 10 be on the watch for the robbers,
brought the word that the police had
. fiye men under surveillance which
thew agreed to hold for identification.
Late Wednesday when the sheriff at
tempted to obtain more information
regarding them he was told that no
men had been apprehended, nor was
there any likelihood that any would pc
as police had more than their hands
full with 5000 strikers, in their own
city. z " \.
where he will visit the rogues' gallery
in an attempt to identify the robbers,
while Sagzok, who was detained by
4 Sheriff Bigelow, was to accompany
the latter to Elyria yesterday after
noon, the police Of that city having
(. notified authorities here that they had
4 man answering the description OF
one Of the safe breakers.
Wednesday evening the sheriff re-
\ ceived a tip that three strange men
had been hanging around Chippewa
Lake park during the afternoon. The
n sheriff and deputy left immediately
y but were unable to locate any one up
on their arrival at the grounds.
Greater vigilance will be kept about
the station from this time on, as we'll
4 ais around other places where banking
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