Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-03

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"A. Armed footpad holds up man at
Fifty third street and Baltimore
avenue, escaping with $500 In cash
and jewclry.
Jewel Robberies Frequent
March
l. Motor bandits raid show window Of
Gustave Jaeger, jeweler, 2002 W.
Girard avenue. Escape with $1,000
in diamonds.
2. Robbers blackjacked, bound and
gagged sixty five year -old lock-
smith, at 3403 York road, escaping
with cash and Liberty bond.
3. Motor bandits In daylight raid on
jewlery store Of Owen f. O'Neill,
2454 Kensington avenue, escape
with $4,000 in jewels.
B. Nine masked robbers bind and gag
watchman and patrolman in Belle
vue Worsted Mills. Sixteenth and
Hunting Park avenue. Load $780,
600 Of goods on motortruck but flee
without loot.
II. Two armed bandits bind guest in
Filbert street hotel room, escaping
with $500 in cash.
%. Burglars get $500 in silverware
from home of George X. Reilly,
banker, Chestnut Hill.
20. Three armed men bind and gag
four men and a woman in p. and
Q. clothing shop. second floor of
1895 Chestnut street. at / 80 p.
M, escaping with S306 in cash,
four gold watches and clothing.
Safecrackers Get $4,000
2. Three armed men hold up shoe store
at Eighth and Cherry streets, es-
Gaping with S700 in cash.
4. Six motor bandits hold up bake
shop Mt 4163 North Ninth street.
Are resisted by sixteen wear old
girl clerk. Escape with SO in cash.
4. Footpad breaks womans jaw at
Fifty sixth street near Girard ave.
railroad pass.
"a. Safecrackers get $4,000 in jewels
nue. and escapes with $40 and a
from store at 10 North Tenth
street.
Daylight Raid on Store
4. Armed bandit in daylight raid on
clothing store. 415 Market street,
knocks girl bookkeeper unconscious
with revolver butt and escapes with
$22 in cash.
7. William G. Thomson. wealthy club
man and lawyer, blackjacked by
thief while in his room in Walnut
street hotel.
q. Watchman murdered by burglar III
employers home, Germantown and
Sunset avenues, Chestnut Hill.
10. Man posing as cripple has jewclry
salesman bring display to Broad
street hotel room. Menaces sales
man with revolver. ties him to chair
and escapes with $4,000 in jewels.
10. Motor bandits hold up physician and
nurse at Eighteenth and Wallace
streets, obtaining SS5 In cash and
round trip ticket to Europe.
10. Motor bandits hold up man and
woman at Twenty fifth and Dia-
mond streets. Get $40.
II. Two bandits bind, gag and black
jack woman shopkeeper in her
store, Second and Moore streets,
then ransack place.
20. Thief knocks down wife Of former
Mayor Weaver at her home and es-
capes with $1,000 in jewels.
3. Bandits shoot father and son at
Second and Bainbridge streets as
father was carrying $500 to bank
Robbers fee without money. :.
10. Taxicab bandits rob Chicago bond
salesman on Parkway of $4,000 ring,
500 watch and S125 in cash.
2S. Motor bandits beat and rob man
on Roosevelt boulevard. take Sis
in cash and all his clothing.
20. Motor bandits hold up drug store at
Third and Carpenter streets, and
take $50 from cash register.
30. Bandits, offering to sell bottle of
whisky, rob storekeeper at Nine
teenth and Catharine streets of
$4,000 in cash.
Start or July Well
July
2. Motor bandits rob motorist of S142
at Broad and Curtin streets.
?. Young man fights off motor bandits
at Twelfth and Diamond streets,
saving S4O0 he was carrying.
3. Motor bandit, masked. kills bar
tender in saloon at Broad street
and Hunting Park avenue, wounds
another man, free three shots at
proprietor and escapes. Got no