| Show POLITE THEIF REFUSES GIRLS CANDY HIGHWAYMAN GRACEFULLY ACCEPTS AC-CEPTS JEWELS BUT SHAKES HEAD AT SWEETMEATS Newark N JOne of the nicest most polite and most successful holdups hold-ups In which a highwayman and a woman ever figured In this part of the commonwealth of Now Jersey took place the other night near the East Orange city line It was like getting monoy from home so far as the highwayman high-wayman was concerned The police who now uro looking for the fellow arc wondering why he didnt appropriate appro-priate his victims false teeth If sho had any and likewise her bag of I candy Tho story qs the police got It Is as follows Charlotte M Hamilton ot R II r l r E rrr r pI Polite Thief Refuses Candy 239 South Eighteenth street went to an East Orange store near her home to buy some candy On the way back she was overtaken by a good lookinq young man who bowed and lna how t tone quietly said + Mako no oiTtcry ittidIr wonf harm I you In any way Hut I must line your money and valuables Miss Hamilton says she followed directions and made no outcry but quietly handed over her valuables first sho transferred to the man a gold watch her grandmother had given her Then she handed out a gold plated plat-ed locket with gold woven chain Next a real gold locket then a crescent cres-cent pin and two amethyst rings and finally a chatelaine pin Anything more asked the robber No thats all Ive got with mo Just nowThe The mean robber took the bag of candy gave one look at the contents and handed It back with u courteous Inclination of the head and walked away Ho walked away quite fast Miss Hamilton told the police All through the performance had such a terrible look In his cyo sho was afraid to yell The lower part of his face she says was covered with a silk handkerchief There was another strange young man not far away at the time she says but she did not attract his attention at-tention because she suspected he might bo a confederate Ho looked she says as If ho might bo a confederate confed-erate He had that sort of an air about him Ho walked away too after sho had given up all her Jewelry On being questioned more particularly particular-ly by the East Orange police Miss Hamilton said the robber was about 25 years old clean shaven with dark complexion and wore a blue sorgo suit negligee shirt and black derby hat Several detectives went tonight to the place where the holdup took place but neither the good looking robber nor his accomplice was there It was hoped they might follow the custom among criminals of revisiting the placo In which they had been successful The trees were full of katydids but + that was all |
