Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1913 — Alarm Clocks Trap a Robber; Cause Conviction [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Alarm Clocks Trap a Robber; Cause Conviction

CHICAQO. —One alarm clock caused the arrest of Paul Newman the other day and another his conviction and sentence to a year in the Bridewell. The restaurant of A. Covillo, 620 West Madison street, had been robbed, and Detectives Sullivan and O’Brien had been detailed to find the thief. As a clew in their quest, the detectives wrote a list of the articles stolen and they included two alarm clocks. Several hours after they had started on their thief hunt the detectives approached Halsted and West Madison streets. Suddenly they heard a long-drawn-out but muffled sound. "Ding-a-lUtg-arllng,”—lt started and

continued for two minutes. _ Newman, who was standing on the corner, began to run when the alarm went off. The detectives ran, too, right after him. ‘There's our man,” said Sullivan. "Right," said O’Brien a few seconds later when they had overtaken Newman and found the ringing alarm cloek in his pocket. Later in the morning Newman was arraigned before Municipal Judge Caverly. He evidently was considering a plea of “not guilty,” despite the finding of the clock In his pocket, when there was a disturbance in the courtroom “Ding- a-1 i ng-a-1 i ng,” and so on it went It was the second stolen clock. Newman looked perplexed, then downcast. He knew pleas of innocence would avail him nothing, so he stepped up and received his sentence. “One year in the bridewell and a «»y> of $lO and costs," said the judge. Next time when Newman takes clocks he will probably stop to see whether the alarms are wound.