Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer., 1922-02-03
DARING GEM BANDIT
BREAKS WINDOW TO
ROB LASALLE STORE.
CRASHES BRICK THRU GLASS,
SIEZES JEWELS AND MAKES
G T A W Az WHILE FOUR
YOUTHS LOOK ON IN ASTON.
ISHMENT.

La Sale, H., Feb. 3.--(SpecialD--
The sparkle C. gem-1lled trays lur.
ing him into desperate attempt at
one Of the most daring diamond rob,
berries ever perpetrated in La SalIe
county, lone bandit last night, while
four youths witnessed the crime,
broke the plate glass window of the
G. \. Jensen jeWelry store in the La
Sale theater building and made away
with loot Vailed at $1,000 without
being apprehended.
Today Mr.. Jensen said that he had
fifteen diamond rings and a number
Of watches, ali Of which were taken
in the window when he went to din.
ner last night.
The paddle" brick artist waiting the
time when the sidewalks were prac.
tiCally deserted with the exception of
the quartet of youths standing in
doorway on the other side of the
thoroughfare. could not have found
more pr0pitious moment for carrying
out his crime, the police said.
O'AC"diNo
The witnesses, none of whom real
iZed what was taking place until they
heard the brick hit the window and
saw the man running from the scene
place the hour of the robbery at be-
tween 9 and $3.50 o'clock The street,
they said, was practically emptied of
pedestrians and neither of them paid
at n "a,
dow, with its large display Of valuable
dow with its arge display of valuable
gems
Before they realized what was TAX
ing place there came a resonant crash, |
accompanied by tAe sound of falling
glass, Looking in the direction the
sound came from, they saw man run
ming at highest speed west toward JO |
Het street. At the corner he scurried |
around the building toward the Rock |
Island railway yards. Within half q |
minute from the time the brick struck |
the window the thief had acquired his |
loot and faded into the night, without |
giving the witnesses an opportunity
to even get q fair description of him. |
The four spectators to the crime |
ran over to the theater building az |
the bandit rounded the corner as fast |
rs his legs would carry him to a |
place Of hiding and saw what had oc- |
Cured. They summoned police, who |
threw out d dragnet in hope of appre-
hending the thief, but without sue
cess Up to late this afternoon no
clews had been obtained that would |
lclp in the search
Same Store Robbed Before,
Last nights robbery was the second |
lime in less than year that the Jen-
sen jewelry store has been looted
Floyd MusgrOvc, a former Ottawa
youth, was convicted of entering the
store on July /, 1921, and getting away
With about $500 worth of watches,
'ings and other valuabIes. He was
sentenced to a term Of from one to
,wenty years in Joliet prison, after
a plea of guilty before Judge
Ildredge in the Circuit Court. All
he MusgrOve loot was recovered at
he time OF his arrest,
Seek Man Named "Fenton."
Acting on a tip furnished by a local
lOtel the authorities are on the trail
# "a man giving his name as Fen
on" who disappeared from his usual
launts about the time the theft oc-
'urred Witnesses who saw the crime
committed said the thief was tall
hin man who wore an army over
coat. "Fenton," the police say, an
;wers that description. Today there
vas every indication he has made a