The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-07-13

Mrs. AopdpdS is former 6duUeIS 5
girl-the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Ducker.
Daytime bandits and midnight
providers operated in Columbia Tues
day night and yesterday and Chief
Strickland is pushing his force to
cope with the situation. Mrs. Ethel
Harmon, wife of DR.. S. E. Harmon,
1880 Sumter street, was the victim of
a daytime holdup yesterday afternoon
and $1,000 jewelry robbery was re-
ported by P. X. Xepapes og 140S
Bull street. Robbers also entered
three business houses and a negro
residence Tuesday night. The Har-
mon and Xepapas homes are about
six blocks apart.
Mrs. Harmon summoned officers to
her home yesterday afternoon short
ly after o'clock and related the de-
tails of one of the boldest attempts
at robbery ever reported to the Co.
lumbia police She was sitting on
her front porch, she said, and walked
into the house, where she was con-
fronted in the dining room by two
white men who grabbed her and said,
"You got US Sunday night, but we
have got you now" Mrs. Harmon told
officers one man held her and the
second bandit covered her head and
mouth with a cloth. She said the men
commanded her to open safe so
they could get "the Liberty bonds,
and carried her to the place where
the safe was. She was at the mercy
of the two men when negro boy ap-
peared on the porch and frightened
them before Mrs. Harmon had open
ed the safe. The men ran out of the
house and she gave the alarm.
Describes Two Men.
Detectives Shorter and Bob Broom
and Officer McAlister rushed to the
house and got the details of the bold
deed from Mrs. Harmon, who was
nervous from shock. She described
one man as being tall and heavy with
a red face. He wore a blue shirt,
gray coat, overalls and a slouch hat.
The other bandit was described as
short and small and was bareheaded
during the holdup. Mrs. Harmon said
the small man stood behind her dur
ing the scuffle.
Chief Strickland and his force
went to work on the case and every
thing possible is being done to To-
cate the guilty parties. Determined
officers were working energetically
at an early hour this morning.
Last Sunday night city detectives
hurried to the Harmon home to learn
the details of an attempted robbery.
Mrs. Harmon heard noise across
the hall and when she opened her
room door she saw masked robber
peeping through another door. She
fired at the form and the bullet lodg-
ed in the window facing close to the
point where the robber stood. Mrs.
Harmon said the intruder said,
Hand me your pistol, it is woman
and will get rid of her" The blum
failed to alarm Mrs. Harmon, who
held her ground. The robber made
a dash for the staircase and Mrs.
Harmon stepped into the hall and
fired another shot. The bullet passed
through a screen door the robber had
opened in his race for fresh air. Run
ming into a room, Mrs. Harmon look
ed out of a window and saw the form
Of a man moving toward Sumter ST.
and she fired the third shot. City
detectives were working on this case
when they were summoned to the
house yesterday to Investigate the
daylight holdup.
DR.. Harmon said he had no Lib
erty bonds at his residence and that
the small safe in his home never con-
tanned anything that would attract
thieves. DR.. Harmon said he would
keep bonds and other valuables IN
secure places. He said nothing was
missed from the house yesterday.
Robbers Get Jewelry.
The home of P. K. Xepapas, 14OS
Bull street, was the scene of a bold
robbery Tuesday night and early yes
terday morning the police were ad-
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