Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1911 — DENTIST SEIZED AS THIEF [ARTICLE]

DENTIST SEIZED AS THIEF

An Hour Later Is Sentenced to Fourteen Years in Prison. Lafayette. Ind., March 31. —Herbert George Lee. aged thirty-eight, feaid to have been a prominent dentist of Des Moines, la., and of a well-to-do family, was captured here after a series of bold daylight robberies and sentenced to state prison for from one to fourteen years, within an hour after his arrest. He came here a week ago, representing himself as a magazine agent and. it is said, committed the robberies while soliciting. Lee called at the home of Mrs. Robert Shaw and finding no one in, entered and was helping himself to the jewelry, when Mrs Shaw returned. He was chased to the street and soon captured by the police, still carrying the booty of several robberies.