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Show JEWELRY STORE IS ROBBED I MOST DARING MAIER I , - A tray of diamonds, valued at lp-t.wppn lp-t.wppn 600 and fluOO, was taken from the front window of the Smalley Jew Iry storo on Twenty-fifth street last jnlcht about 7 10 o'clock, by a robber who made Rood his escape In th passing crowds The robber smashed the plate glass window with a larg' rock and was off with the jewels before be-fore nearby pedestrians could realize wlwt had happened. The crash of the broken glass drew la large crowd and the police were notified. All of the available officers offi-cers were put on the case Detectives Detec-tives Burk and Chambers arriving on the scene within four minutes aftor the robberj' occurred, but no trace of the thug was found According to the officors. no one saw the man break the glass, but several sev-eral saw him take the tray of jewels from the window and run east to Hudson Hud-son avenue. He is said to have then turned north to the end of the Harris barber ship, down a back alley and Into the Vienna cafe, three doors west of Smalley's through a rear door, and out onto the street again, whore he Is believed to have mingled with the crowds that wore gathered In front of the broken window. The affair is considered by the no lice to have been unparalleled In daring, dar-ing, in the history of tho city, and that it had been carefully planned Persons who saw the supposed robber rob-ber running down Hudson aenuo, described de-scribed him as being about 22 years of age. dark coinple xioned and somewhat some-what slender of build He was about feel 9 inches tall and wore a medium medi-um dark suit, with a gray shirt and B light cap. The hole In the window win-dow was about a foot in width and IS inches in height, while the window is virtually cracked all over John Smalley. Sr., head cf the firm, made an examination of his stock and found that six rings, valued at from $125 to $310 each, had been taken. A closer seon h revealed one of the rings, the most valuable one. in the bottom of the window, where it had fallen when the robber moved the tray. All trains leaving the city have been watched bv the police and the officers of towns within a wide radius ra-dius of Ogdn have been notified to keep a lookout for the jewelry and the robber |