Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1912 — BOY HOLDUPS ARE CAUGHT [ARTICLE]

BOY HOLDUPS ARE CAUGHT

They Pinioned a Victim’s Arms With a Lariat and Then Rifled Pockets, New York.—Using a lariat with which, in true western style, they lassoed a victim so that he was powerless to resist three highwaymen, the oldest of whom was but eleven years, robbed Lester Feist, eighteen years old, 69 Cedar street Williams--burg, of a valuable stickpin while he was on his way home from making a call. Feist struggled to free himself, but the boys pulled the lariat tighter. The more he struggled the tighter they drew the rope. Feist was turning into Hamburg avenue from Hart street when three boys stepped from a doorway. One of them began whirling a lariat and suddenly the rope shot toward him. It circled his head and dropped down over his arms. As it did the three boys pulled on the rope and pinioned bls arms. He ran toward the three, but they wound the lariat around his legs and threw him to the gutter. Feist cried for help a* one of the trio took a stickpin from the victim** tie. They were going, through his pockets when Policeman Nicholas Benson, responding to Feist’s cry, appeared After a long chase Benson arrested the three boys. v .. -';S