San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-30
BLACK BANDIT
PROVES TERROR
To DRUG STORES
Negro Gunman Robs Third
Establishment With
in Few Days.
RIDES AWAY ON WHEEL
Two Pedestrians Also Held
Up and Robbed Of
Small Sums.
RIDES AWAY ON WHEEL

Three San Antonians were held ur
and robbed between Z 80 Monday night
aid dawn Tuesday.
Ed. Halcomb, proprietor of a meat
MARKET. S23 South blackberry street
was halted at o 20 Tuesday morning by
three gunner and robbed of $t4.
]. &. White, owner of the Denver
Heights Pharmacy, South blackberry
street and Denver boulevard, was held
up by negro at 10 O'Clock Monday
1igGt and his cash register robbed OF
SIS.
.. W. Goldberg, 137 Conroy street
proved disappointment for a negro
gunman. who stuck him up on Goliad
street. The robbers loot amounted to
silver dime.
The same negro robbed the druggist
and Mr., Goldberg, city detectives be-
lieye. He is also thought to be the
bandit who, during the last ten days
held up three other drug stores. in each
instance rifling the cash register while
he held the owner at bay with a gun
Rides Away on Bicycle.
At the Denver Heights Pharmacy. the
negro made a small purchase and after
NhduSt KUN anu
compelled Mr.. White to put up his
hands. He then quiclhs looted the cash
register. stepped from the place and
appropriated a bicycle that stood in
front of the place and rode away. The
bicycle belong to Hubert Hill. 1903
South blackberry street, employed at
the drug store as delivery boy.
The methods pursued by the negro
are the same that marked the recent
hold-up of the San Pedro drug store
and the Goliad pharmacy. In each
instance the victims have described the
robber as a black man, about 20 years
old, wearing a cap, blue shirt and
dark trousers.
The negro who robbed Mr.. Goldberg
fits this DESCRIPTION, except that Mr..
Goldberg expressed the belief he is of
a dark brown color. The negro halted
Mr.. Goldberg, who was driving toward
the city, and asked him for a ride.
The motorist Obliged. When the car
had reached a point near the intersec-
ton of Goliad and Labor streets, the
negro suddenly pressed a pistol against
the automobile driver and searched his
pockets, finding dime. He then
leaped from the car and disappeared.
Three White Men Are Robbed.
Three white men staged the robbery in
which Ed Halcomb was the victim early
Tuesday morning. Halcomb told De-
tective Ruhnke who responded TO the
call that he was en- route TO his market
TO open it for business. He was held
up and robbed near the corner of Hack
berry and Cherry streets.
The trio, he said, occupied an old
touring car. 1t either had no top or
the top was down. The headlights of
the car were flashed on him and then
turned out. Two of the men stepped
from the automobile a short distance
ahead Of him. Halcomb said he gave
little or no heed to the actions Of the
men, until the two suddenly halted him
with drawn pistols. While one kept
him under the muzZle of a gun, the
other, he said, rifled his pockets. They
obtained about S13 or S14 that the
meat market owner was taking to his
shop for change. The robbers. he said,
appeared to be men about % or 30
years old. He was unable to see the
numbers carried on the automobile.