Show ho f AMOND ROBBERY IN HEART TOFT OF F TNT THE CiTY Two of or the boldest crimes recorder recorded in the police pollee annals of o this city were wen I committed within the heart of or the busi bust business bustness I Iness ness district early last evening bj by b three of r the gang gaD of desperadoes de that thai now InCe infest et t the city Under the bright glare lare of electric lights lI before the eyes eye of o passing pedestrians and aRd policemen a desperate de robber crushed in the win window windo window dow do of o a Jewelry tore store in the presence pr nce of JC the proprietor stole about 78 worth of and after shooting at hie hi pursuer made m ck good his hill escape with his booty Almost at the same e time and aud but bu three blocks away two highwaymen ir in ira ina it ita a buggy bUgg were W relieving a pedestrian pede oi of o ohis his hiti money Ht itt the point paint of a revolver r They then drove dOve away y and aRd made their thet escape These Th crimes crI so boldly committed prove that a band of highwaymen o othe oi of the most mos desperate stamp p are to Ute the city prepared to reap a harvest harves during the coming stock convention The police department Is te alarmed by bI bythe b bIthe the situation and nd Chief Hilton BUton applied to the police committee lust Jai t night foi tor an additional who wilt wiH likely liken be placed aced In service next nett t week Bold Diamond ond Robbery q ery The diamond robbery which was UK the most moot boldly executed crime of its kind kink ever committed in is the city was perpetrated perpetrated perpetrated at the pawn shop slop of I 1 Waters 31 ii East Kast First South street about S 8 I k while a number of pedestrians pedestrian were ere passing along pavement The proprietor of the store lore was standing near the window lad waiting on a custom customer er t when he beard a erf crash sh and saw MaW a H section of hi JaW his front glass shattered At first he thought tho something IIO had been accidentally thrown through tie the win window how dow but on looking again he saw a rough looking man mau grabbing r bIP diamonds from the tM show window The boldness of if the deed almost paralysed him for fora fora a a moment but In hi an instant he and the customer dashed da tot for t the door to catch patch the thief To their astonishment the door reused re refused refused fused used to yield to their efforts and they the were ere forced to stand and salt call for tor help until a pedestrian came and raised a cleverly leverly contrived wooden latch from the he door dr knob which the robber had bad prepared and placed p there thereIn In the th meantime the tM robber bad had darted eastward towards Broadway avenue closely duely foi tor owed Iwed by a pedestrian trian rian At the corn orn of the alley alkY the thief hief slipped and leI felt but before hia pursuer and several officers who had ru rushed shed t to the scene could get t to him himI he w regained rt his hill feet teft and aado shooting at atthe athe the he pedestrian he M disappeared appeared di in the darkness of I the alley from which place placeit pla t tit it t was impossible to trace him The Theman Thenan man nan who echo wh was shot at it is I said had hada hatli i a close duc call from the tile bullet but he gut grot tf c away before his identity could be as ascertained ascertained A diamond ring which the robber tOb f had dropped and a large iron pin wrap wrapped ped In paper which he had us used d to smash the glass were found The Thela latch t which he put on the door knob w s apiece apiece a apiece piece of o plank with a slot tit eat In It to slip over the knob on the o ou of the double door and make it impossible Impo to open it Mr Waters Vaters saw sa the man and thinks S She he lie would be able to recognize him hl |