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Show HOLDUPS AGfl CAUSE REIGH OF TERRORS Within an hour after the neigH hood in the vicinity of Monroe H and Twenty sixth street had H aroused by a fusillade of shots H i by neighbors at a fleeing buiglarH I had attempted io enter the 4H ment of B W Ballantne. Pvn teboom. Jr. the 17-year-old H the clerk of the Weber stake. I assaulted by a holdup when the H could find no valuables upon young man after he had searched I near the Joseph H Thomas resideiH 2549 Madison avenue, only a H away from the scene of the first H cltenient- The sound of the pistol shots, -H story of the attempted burglar. the reporl of the holdup and assaiH on young Neuteboom caused a an H i panic among the neighbors and H j telephone In the police station H kept ringing, the residents asking H protection from the desptrate i-harnB terfl they believed to be still in H neighborhood. .Inst a short time before the H tempted burglary, Dr Lorin Rich hndW observed a man loitering before ' residence, at 2579 Monroe avenue H Suspicious of the fellow because two I daughters of Lafe Farley had fled to M his house for protection but a short IB time before from a man who the cirls said had followed them to the High school. Dr Rich left his hous and questioned the man. receiving an answer that he was waiting to keep an appointment Soon after, a man believed to be the same fellow, attempted to ellmo into the apartment of B. . Ballan-tyne Ballan-tyne Ballantyne was in the pantrv at the time and w hen he observed the fellow's actions, he secured h!s revolver and returned to the pantry While the man was still peering In the window, which is some feet from the ground. Ballantyne blazed away twice through the screen of the window, win-dow, but both shots apparentlv went wild Ar he sound of the shots. Pr Rich, who lives but two doors to the north, hurried from his residence with a guu and saw the stranger, w ith whom hp I had talked but a few minutes before, fleeing down Monroe avenue toward Twenty-fifth street When the man did not stop as ordered to do so the I physician fired two shots In the alrj but the sound of the gun only added iter speed to the flight. Dr. Rich was afraid to fire dlrectlv at the man' . . jgjt. i i gfsja H fv-V I I mmm , man disappeared down Twenty-fifth street and Ballantyne in the meantime mean-time telephoned to the police Patrolmen Swanson, Hearn and Manzell reuorted In the patrol wagon. At about 11 o'clock, Kvert Neuteboom. Neute-boom. Jr. was returning to his home when, at a point near the Thomas ! residence, a dark clothed man jumped out irom behind a tree and ordered ' M Neuteboom to throw up his hand" A Frightened at the sudden encounter V with the holdup upon the dark street. j the young man did not at once follow j orders and the thug slapped him in the face for his delay and ordered him to remove his coat. When the coat 1 was taken off the robber changed his mind and had him put It on again. aitr which he searched the pockets. Finding only a pair of glasses and 1 some valueless articles, the robber j swore and struck Xeuteboom Then with the order to "beat it," the fellow struck the young man again with his f'?t, causing the blood to flow frep j from his nose As Neuteboom ran to his home, the robber went the other way. la Snxc-ant Layne and Patrolman Rus- '- -gjMfJafjJaJSMMI SjgjgagjpsKpj I 1 I |