The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-10-09
HOLD-UP GANG IS
CAUGHT BY ROCK
Lieutenant Catches Gang
Who Held Up Alberts
on Saturday.
WAS PIECE OF LUCK
Luck and Police Efficiency
Combined Lead to Arrest on
Meager Description.
WAS PIECE OF LUCK

Depend upon it, there is never any
luck but there is some merit in It,"
That's what Emma said to Mr..
Knightley, oh, hundred years ago
(see Jane Austen's Emma) and that's
what the chief of police today may
we'll say to the lieutenant Charles F.
Rock, in congratulation upon salts
factory arrest.
Saturday night clothing store was
robbed. Two men stole two pairs of
trousers, struck julius Alberts, the
shopkeeper and escaped in an Oldsmo-'
bile car.
Sunday about noon, Lieut.. Rock
caught sight Of the Oldsmobile, fol-
lowed it and succeeded in arresting
the two men at road camp on the
Somers road, and also arrested as ac-
completes the pair who were with them
at the time of the holdup.
One Man Wears "Pants."
AS a finishing touch to the whole
thing, one of the men when arrested,
was wearing a pair of the stolen
trousers. The four "kicked in" ac-
cording to the police and admitted the
robbery. They were: John Hermann
Graham, 20, 515 Ash street, Wauke-
gan; Selma Lee Graham, his wife aged
| 10; Claude Thomas Moan 20 of Mar
engo, ILL.,; Harry Francis Madigan, 26,
of Cumberland, Maryland.
| Moan and Madigan are the two who
went into the store and held up AL
berts the police say. Mrs. Graham
drove the car which took them away
and her husband sat beside her. The
men are working as truck drivers
among the road gang on the Somers
road.
Julius Alberts, corner Prairie and
Balm avenues, was in his store Sunday
evening. His wife and another woman
were there, but no man except him
self.
Two men walked in, and told the
proprietor that they wanted to buy
pair of trousers. The shopkeeper,
thinking they were just ordinary GUS
toners, obliged. He was showing them
one pair, when one of the men seized
two pair near at hand, struck Alberts
in the face with his fist and ran quick
ly out. The other man daudled in the
rear a moment and then followed his
companion. The two men jumped into
car and drove away.
Call for Police Ambulance.
By some mistake, call was sent in
for the police ambulance, or the police
were given to understand there was a
fight on. When the police responded
with the ambulance they heard that
there had been a holdup and that the
gang had gone west on Prairie ave-
4 -. .AItJo
cursed their luck, having the clumsy
ambulance on hand, which could not
chase a Ford, instead of one Of the
! highpowered motor cars.
The description of the two men was
given the officers. The people at the
store had noticed that the pair went
off in an Oldsmobile car with an Illi-
!. nois license. Part of the license num-
Der only had been noted. Someone had
seen that the last three numbers
were 1885,"
Rock Sees These Numbers.
Lieut. Charles Rock was out in one
of the police cars Sunday morning
about IL o'clock, in the vicinity of
Rowland avenue and Division street.
He saw an Oldsmobile going west on
Division street, and while it seemed
for the moment almost too incredible
it carried an Illinois license and three
of the numbers were 1859" There was
one man in the car.
The police lieutenant did not want
to spoil it by getting this man with
out any of the others of the gang who
were with him Saturday night so he
quickly decided to follow the oldsmo-
bile and see to what lair it led.
Fearing that he would awaken sus-
picion, he abandoned the police car
and jumped on the running board OF
another car which came along. Rock
Communicated the car for police bust
ness and the obliging driver followed
the Oldsmobile.
Out through the town upon the
country highway the car in front lead
the way. The car was followed to the
camp of road construction gang on
the Somers road. Finding that the
Oldsmobile turned in here, Lieut. Rock
turned with his assistant and hurried
back to town.
The police believe that the -four
were trying to work different game
and failed to succeed They think that
when the trousers were robbed and one
man ran out with them, that it was
expected that the storekeeper would
follow and give the other man 8
chance to help himself to the till.