The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-09-08
HOLDUP DIDN'T
HALT WEDDING
Masked Bandits Stop We'd
ding Car But Not We'd
ding Procession.
BRIDE EROM KENOSHA

Although beset with highwaymen,
who stole their wedding fund = $1,000,
representing the savings Of a young
lifetime - lovers lane turned into
the home-road for Miss Phyllis Olsen
of Kenosha and Edmond Nitsche Of
Waukegan late Saturday afternoon
when they were quietly married at the
Presbyterian Manse in the Illinois city
by the Rev. S. w. Chichester.
The bandits held UP the groom but
not the wedding. In their greed for
solid simoleons they overlooked the
brides wedding ring SO that there was
no interruption Of the ceremony.
81 had been saving that money ever
since | started earning anything"
>Nitsche said Friday evening just after
the highwaymen had gone over the hill
with his wallet. at represented ten
years, work"
"Never mind" Miss Olsen said,
you've still got me and we can earn
more"
After that the wedding occurred ac-
cording to schedule except that the
bridal-trip was considerably abbreviat-
ed as a result of the theft of the
wedding-fund.
Wash-Boiler Hats Wedding Car.
The holdup which failed to hold up
the nuptials occurred in Waukegan
Friday evening. Nitsche and Miss Oh
sen, his BROTHER and the latter's wife
were riding in Edmond Nitsche's Z
passenger Mitchell on jackson street,
at $3.50 o'clock, about 80 feet south of
Dugdale road, when he saw what APP
peared to be wash boiler in the
road; he slowed down. Just then a
bandit rose from the weeds and COW
cred Nitsche with a gun.
Miss Olsen, knowing that Nitsche
had The $1,000 in an envelope in the
inside pocket of his coat, and seeing
that the gun was pointed at his
heart, threw her arms about her
sweetheart, and placed her hands
over his heart.
Another Bandit Appears.
At that moment another bandit
steppe out of the weeds from the
other side of the road and ordered
Miss Olsen to put up her hands. The
other bandit reached into Nitsche' s
pocket, took the envelope and shout
ed: "I've got it," The robbers then
started across the Sunderlia pas
ture.
Nitsehe although unarmed, chased
them. When they saw he was gain
| ing one Of the bandits turned and fired
twice with his automatic, one bullet
missinf him a few inches.
When the shots were fired Miss
Olsen tainted and Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Nitsche believed she had been shot
Scores of persons heard the shots and
rushed to the scene. Policeman John
Railing was on his beat at the corner
of Belvidere street and Powell avenue
and arrived upon the scene within two
minutes after he heard the shots.
No Clue to Highwaymen.
Despite the crowd the bandits es-
capped leaving no clue as to their iden-
tity.
81 can't understand how anyone hap
pened to hold me up at just that time
Not even my mother knew ] had that
money | had boarded it away in the
house and nobody knew it's hiding
place. had just taken it from the
cache yesterday to buy a few things
Up until the time of the holdup the
wedding had been as secret as the cache
for the wedding-fund Now both sec
rets are out; the groom is also out
81, 900 but is happy to have found a
wife who was wise enough to accept
the loss philosophically and marry him
anyway.