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Show EXPERIENCES OF OTHER WOMEN When Mrs Geo. Culver and Mrs. McLaren Boyle Were Robbed by the Same Men Who Committed the Daring Crime Last Night Both Says the Bristol Holdups Are the Men Who Robbed Them Mr and Mrs Oorge Culver, 2557 Jackson are positive that the two i Who blackmailed Mrs Ralph Bristol j and Mrs. Thomas D Dee are the same two men that robbed them at their home and later secured an additional J $300 bv a ruse Mr Culver has been un?ble to find the letters received b) i blm. but he stated today that parts of' the letters written to Mrs BriBtol and. Mrs. Dee were so much like expres- sions in the letters received bv him J tht he felt positive the were by the same person Mrs Culver visited Mrs Bristol this morning, and after hearing Mrs j Bristol describe the voice heard over' the telephone, declared that it was the same voice that had called her by telephone The oice according to both ladies. is remarkably smooth and shows evidence ot refinement and education Tt was impossible to -ecure the original or-iginal letters sent to Mrs Bristol to be Identified by Mtb Culver, but Mrs Bristol deserlbcd the writing In such a manner that Mrs Culver said the writing was similar to that received re-ceived bv her. Mrs. Bristol noticed only one grammatical mistake. Mr and Mm. Culver having received re-ceived rough usage at the hands of the men who are believed to have been Implicated in the work of last right, are acquainted with their desperate des-perate character. After stating that they would bo able to Identify the nun, Mrs Culver asked that this fact be not published as she fe3rs that the two men will do them harm, if they learn that they can be identified Mrs Mcl-aren Bov le Is alo certain I that the men who took her diamond and later returned It upon being given giv-en the sum of $100 are the same The letters In this case are In the hands of James Pender formes cltv delcctlve. The language is much in the same. It will be remembered that, after :'rs. Boyle had been robbed of her diamond ring, she received a letter pnd also a telephone call stating that if she droxe along Washington avenue lu her buggy with $100, the ring would he delivered to her The methods were similar to thoe eifployed last night As Mrs Bo le drove along, she heird a sharp whistle whis-tle near Fourteenth street, on Washington Wash-ington avenue. She stopped her horse and a tall and a short man, masked, stepped to the road and delivered de-livered the ring, receiving in return the $100 in $20 gold pieces. Mr. Culver did not fare so well. He and Mrs Culver were robbed of several sev-eral hundred dollars worth of jewels ann Mrs. Culver was beaten over the head, after she had objected to having hav-ing rings taken from her fingers 1 Later, Mr Culver received a letter from one of the bandits to the effect that if he carried $300 to a certain point on Wst Twelfth street, he would receive his jewels in return He was on his way down Twelfth street in a buggy when a muzzle of a gun was pointed in his face from a vacant house about two blocks west of Washington avenue and he was fenced to gle up his money without receiving his rlugs in return Mrs. Bristol Rejolcei. Mrs Ralph E Bristol. In talking of the case this afternoon, to a representative repre-sentative of The Standard said When the officers were ready to leave the hoube, Mr Lambert said he thought It would be the best for them to take the gold with them. We l3l'ed the matter over and as both Mrs Dee and I were in favor, from the beginning, of turning the money O'er, we agreed I feel that it was the most satisfactory thing lo do be- c nise, if the officers had not had the gold with them, they would have been killed. It would have been terrible for the officers to have loRt their lives, and neither Mrs Deo nor I have the least bit of regret about the money." Mrs. Bristol said that she was rejoicing re-joicing that the affair was over for she had been under a nervous strain since the receiving of the letters The Bristol home is still guarded Although visitors to the Bristol home hive come and gone during the past j week, three men concealed were on guard at the home night and day. |