The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-09-18
osacksmen Flee Out the
twenty Fourth st. Road
With Loot; Caught.
UNDER ARREST.
VNDEh AhAEOls
Fred Mills, proprietor Of the
sAEyenal cafe" s117 Fourth
\ evenue.
.Grundy Morehead, Mills bro.
ihsf.In.law, Gernsnis hotel,
DaveapOrt.
Ernest Allen, Eagle taxi line
driver, arrested ut taxi Office.
Glean Hyatt, former Eagle
MI Line employee 2117 Fourth
ogeaue.
Ethel Brown, 2l17 Fourth
osenue.

4 robbery Of most any degree Of
magnitude Is bold, but for out
tight forwardness Of criminal ac-
toa the history Of Rock island gives
N parallel to the spiriting away Of
! too-pound steel safe from the H.
4 Jasper meat market, 2614 Fifth
lSenue. in an automobile early this
norning to a secluded spot on the
laaely Twenty-fourth street road in
eosth Rock Island, where It was
bovn up.
j The yeggmen obtained $500 in
noaey. but this to do them little
ODod Is Police Chief Tom Cox SAYS
n has the entire gang behind the
bass Quick work ON the part OF
Clisf Cox has landed four men and
~ woman in the city Jail, as the
eehplete personnel of the gang,
~ to have confessed to pulling
" Job.
Fred Mills, member OF the motor
bus Mills family of Rock Island, is
slisved to have been the brains Of
hs Job, and the instigator OF the
boldness Of the scheme. which was
carried out to an exactness Of pre-
arranged details. but which went
Tor naught. due to the swiftness
with which Chief Cox analyzed the
clues furnished him.
Grundy Morehead, Mills brother
ta-law, is a second member of the
png. He was arrested few
leurs after the safe-blowing at the
Germania hotel in Davenport.
Two Taxicab Drivers Hep.
Ernest Allen, formerly Of Mon
mouth, and Glenn Hyatt, formerly
u st. Louis, Mo-. both employees OF
ne Eagle Taxi line, 119 Nineteenth
xreet, are the other two men In
Ae limbo of the law. LA
Ethel Brown, thought probably
. have been a lookout for the gang
= also under arrest.
Patrolman Gus Kruger was the
ufst to discover the robbery. Al
ebout $3.50 o'clock this morning he
found the front door of the Jasper
meat market ajar. Entering the
place he found an east side win
eov glass broken. which had been
Knocked out after an iron bar to the
window had been cut away. The
safe In the place was missing and
Arneger sent a hurry up cali to the
cation.
Got Car Number.
krueger had seen a touring cal
" the neighborhood . short time
0e'cre. He knew he could recog.
aise the car, as he had scrutinized
Y closely and had memorized sew
s!A figures Of the license number
ne mad also got a partial view oi
@e occupants. and had suspicioned
uslr activities in the neighborhooi
with these clues to work upon
Sniet Cox, Detective Dennis Bennett
la Patrolman Kruger got busy.
They knew that the safe had
zen carried from the building and
p'sced In the car, as there were nc
sNks on the floor Of the safe be.
@s wheeled over it.
Visit Taxi Headquarters.
Snatches Of information were
rcssd up as the officers proceeded
s,tn their investigation. These
tnem to the headquarters OF the
s!e Taxi line at l19 Nineteenth
eet. A touring car there wa.
s1uned by Kruger as the one
oad seen near the meat market
sAen. one Of the drivers, was ar,
At the police station he held pa
~ considerable time, but finall,
!. s.n'!ted to have been implicated il
deal, the police said. He re
Sed to mention others. but sale
at ne had let two of the gang ou
me car At Seventh avenue an(
ssoty-irst street Some time be
tne police had seen Mills ans
su At the corner Of Fourth ave
and Twtnty-first street, com
ttom the south. They put twt
Two together and started ou
y the men.
n
=, Operates Arsenal CAFE.
-. liis operates the Arsenal cafe
' Fourth avenue, and in tn
ms above the restaurant the DO
toQnd him, Hyatt and Ethe
n Other information impli
Grundy Morehead. Mills
sef-in-law, and running dowl
oef clues the police went to tn