Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 205, Hammond, Lake County, 21 February 1922 — Page 1
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Mayor of Pawtucket Reads Riot Act and Gives Order to Fire INTERNATIONAL TiFWS SERVICE! FA WTL'CKCT, E. I.. Feb. CI One ftiaii was killed here today when po-1-cp on the order of Mayor Kenyon of Tawtutkct, fired F.to a gathering of Textile strikers outside the Jenekes otton mil!. MAYOU HKAnS 11IOT ACT. six others wrre wounded so severely that they were pent to hospitals. The triUcrs, accordirs to witnesses were in an orderly gathering when Mayor Kenyon arrived on the scene. He read the riot act and ordered the strikers to disperse and return to their homes. Nobody moved. The irayor repeated b ,s order but it Mas ignored. He then t.irr.ed to the officer in charge of the Pawiucket police ar.d pave 'he order to fire. Joseph Absuncan of Valley Falls feil r.iortnlly wounded. Police and hospital authorities refus2(? to rtiake public the. names of the wounded. police veuion of Arr.vin The police version of the disturbance Is that the strikers and strike sympathizers were seeking to interfere with workers wishing to enter the mill of the Jenckcs Spinning company and that the crowd became unmanagenble when the police and Mayor Robert A. Kenyon attempted to arrest four of the distu-bers. A motor moving van had been commandeered for the ptirro.se cf removing the four when the crowd rushed tho polie-. Mayor Kenyon conferred with Lieut Eailou, who was in charge of a detail ef 25 policement, end told him to sire if necessary. Mayor Kenyon is said to have cautioned the police to be calm. In addlt'oti to one death, many were seriously ind four slightly wounded. Feeling' among' the strikers Is bitter. They contradict the police explanation cf the affair and chrage that the trouble started when a Pawtucket police rergeant struck a young woman striker, Mary Almeida, 19, with his club. 1 nocking her down. Another policeman, they charge, hit jLa? j'oun? woman with a revolver but jutrosa the breast aa the lay on r' H w at this point, according to ipo strikers and their sympathizers, :;8t the major rode up in his automoV;lc. They claim the mayor lost hi head and after taking a revolver from .,s pocket, f red it Into the air. They .Eo tneitt that it was LI j mayor who fa.vc the order to the. police to discharge heir riot guns vl.en the crowd refused to disperse -following reading t the riot act. TRUCK GROWERS TO MEET MARCH FIRST t5FECIAL TO THE TIMES CROW.Y POINT, ind.. Feb. 21. An-t-ounce me.nt is nude today by County ig.t V. .V. I'ince that the next regular meetinc of the truck growers of T.ako county win n" neid in the new Community Hi'i at the Woodrow Wittog School' oh Jfarcli 1. This will he an all-day rne.tlng, beclrming promptly at ! o'clock. The program has n-.t been olnpleted In E fs details, but Dr. Gregory -of Purdue a -id Prof. I.a '-.. also of that institut oa, wiF. be there with new sot of laiitrn slides on c.i:in diseases aii'i ,-nion Insect pests and their treatment. Kor the past two years John Pcvjirs and Andrew Kroosbyk. c f North t-wn-ishlp, have been using the- formaldehyde treatment for the prevention of onion smut. They have had wonderful success with this treatment and Thev will tell of their work at this meeting. iMplemen ts which are used in treating the seed will be on display there. LIVES OF 100 PERILED BY TRAIN WRECK INTERNATIONAL NEWS SffiViCC) rANVIELE. lib. Feb. 2i. '.me irin'ed miners miraculoiu'fv escaped iniry (his morning when a Cincinnati & . ddiiiiiapolis Ira n in which thi-y were i .ding was derailed b-tween Montezuma and Hillsdale. Ind. The engine ver.urned and four coaches left the track. A defective rail '.s believed to have caused the accident.
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yonrOhK, Va.. Feb. The army dirisible Roma, largest whip of ber type m the world, exploded in midair above Hampton Roads th.s afternoon and fell burning into the waters of the Roads. More than a score were killed. There were 50 aboard. The ship had left Lanaley Field, her rwm- station, at 1:30 oclock p m , on a short practice flight, with Captain Mafary, air service, commandinc The bij,- cigar-shaped vessel was sailinc along about 1,000 feet above the Roads when suddenly there was a terrific e:.plosio:i. and the ship dropped like a plummet into the waters of the Roads. Motor beats immediate':-" put out from shore to the spot where the bie vessel lay a mass of wreckage in the v atcr. From the shore, it was apparent that the hhip was almost a complete wreck. Wrecking' crew a from the naval air station and four planes from the same station were hastily summoned. Five ambulances were rushed from the Naval hospital to the shore line to wait for the rescue boats to bring in the members of the crew. The Roma is of the semirigid usuclli type and u-i believed to be the largest semi-riid airship in the world. Its capacity was 3,100,000 cubic feet. it was 4 10 feet long:. S2 feet wide, and Si 1-2 feet hisjli. It had uix 12 cylinder engines, of 450 horse power each, or a total of 2.70rt horse power, and an estimated sp.--(; ,,f SO miles pr hour. Its cruisinjr radius at ful speed was Z,Z'0 miles arid was designed for eommereia! us", it was built by the Italian gov. Tn merit for war purposes and made several trips ocr the Alps. The airship was sold to the United States for approximately $200,000 and it is -sti-m.-Ued that it would cost $ 1 ,230,Cu''i to duplicate it. The airship was broutrht fr.im Itfily to the United PLit'S in a dismantled condition on board a United States r oilier and rag taken to the I.angley field where it was set up. IS MAX 57 OR WHAT IS HE? How Old Is Ann? Is a Question That Has Nothing On This. r rSTEHNATIONAt NEWS SERVICE 1 CHICAGO, Feb. 21 How old is Max be-ame something of a burning I'l's- j r.ion today as a controversy arose evrr the age of Max Oser, the Swiss riding . master who is encaged to wed Miss Mathilde MCormick. grand-daughter j of John D. Rockefeller.
According to Harold F. McCormick, p. RTirENON management rnado f. v ho claims personal acquaintance with rn)fitake in putting such low railings Vr, future son-in-law. Oser is 40 years arounJ the boxes. How do they expect old and "still full of pep." j a fellow tll enj0y the show when he According to several Chlcagoans who to arm crookef, around hls claim relationship with the Swiss rompanion for fear she 11! fall out: horseman. Oser Is et least o7 yars old. j Miss McCormick, who rioub'Iess is! TODAY'S -ahisper: Will or will not the only one who really knows, con-a renam city olTVial swear out a wartinues to maintain a moM successful ) raRt foP tb,. arrest of a :ity councilman
:-,lence. Conflicting stories told by the 1 ;ion of Oser relatives that has sprung up ,-inee th roman -e of Miss McCormieW I be-ame kiua n, lm ve added to thd j confusi'-m that has hampered all at- j tempts to obtain a-virate information l eonc-ming Oser's person and arte- ! cedent jr. The 'arious "cousins" that
have 'laimed relationship have Wn j rreshments are billed on the program repudiated by the M.-CormiokM. ; given bv Edward II l.arsen Post, VetFmil Rurgy. a painter, who claimed j cran(( of porelgn Wars. kinship, called st the MtCormick home j to pres'-nt bis compliments, extend j COUNTT F-ECORt'ER IJILLT ROSE .-ongratulatioris and get acquainted, i nas a new auto love to share honors "fli vvr rt-d'- back to his humble eote With the vivid Ford he used in clecufter an unsu.-cessf ul attempt t--. rtorm t;0ncering. He has just .purchased the the M.-Cormi.'k citadel. i i'u.-kard which Ed. Rerwanger utcd in All information retarding the rlans .:tl:lt.i!, boore runners. oh sure, he's
or cue urn, o-,t i.-imuy was Lemg eicsely (.a.viii'ti ti-day and no an vouticemeut of when the wedding may be expected to take place was forthcoming. COSSaCkS BOOtS Arrive in Hammond Will thev V-c carry ing gur.s next? That's what a popular young Ilam-r-ii.d fellow said when he spied the new '.'! sack Root.-; for won. en di.-nla j ed in the window of the M-B Bootshop. j While these new boots are extrerrielv t masculine In appearance and more r J n.ira po..eo. yet tney are pre- . diced to become even a more ropu'.ar j novelty than the goolosh.es. No laces to bother with simply jerk them oi roll them down or up, as you !;!;. up ir cold weather and dovln in i v:rm weather , The Cossack is a comlunation of the Russian boot top. the Spanish he--! and the Gypsy pattern. It w as the sensation of tbe recent nal1 mil nhoetii'-ns' convention and is proving very popular with the smart set. The;.- are extremely comfortable to the feet and certainly audacious in arreararee.
Did You Hear That ; ATT V ' entirely J. F. SAWYER ways: "I've recovered front both of my o:ls thank you.' MRS. CHARLES SEE. punt Charles Sec. is til wife of Ser- j at her homo : with a light attach, of grippe. "PABE'' RI""HTF.R if- curious to know 1 whatever becarno of the moving pictures ; that were taken of Hammond. This is 'natural, as he was in them11. P. VOOICHEIS who was forced to miss the Father and Hon banquet lat week on account of siokness has cuffcrcd a relapse and is once more conllned to his bed. POSTMASTER JOITX L. ROIinE exreets an unusually largre demand this week for the certiileates bearing- the portrait of George Washington whieii sell for JS0. DFST off your dancing pumps, Mabel, and step out to the Washington prom at K .of I'. hall tomorrow night. Proceeds go to building fund of Jewish Community Center. THE KRERTS, the heaviest brothers Lasketball tr-am in captivity, composed of five brothers, whose as-pregate weight is 1150 pounds, arc looking for new worlds to conquer. BUS LINES aro still extending. One is row operating between Howell ard : Valparaiso by way of Hebron, and it Is reported that one may operate between 1 these parts and Lowell. GUST PELL has a horse. Also a wagon. Rut no harness. This because the harness and other trappings valued at $40 were stolen from his barn, rea.r of 1S9 Gostlin street. TWELVE cars of an eastbound Michigan Central freight train were derailed near New Buffalo on Sunday morning. A broken wheel of one of the cars Is said to have been responsible. FORTY-FIVE hundred pennies. That is part of loot comprising also cigars and cigarettes stolen tfrotn store cf Steve Evans, 1042 Columbia avenue. Thieves jimmied rear window. THE Northern Indiana Gas & Electric Co. take LsFUe with W. J. Me.Meer that ek-ctric light and gas rates are above peak prices and say tiat f'T domestic use the prices arc as they were in 101!!. A WRECK on the southern division of the Monon yesterday morning deiRyed the northbound passenger ttiln v. hteh passes through here at 6:.10. The train was detoured by -way of Seymour, Indiana. "HOW rio-s it happen," aks Chief Joe Mtz of ?Wst Hammond. "that drunks, arrested Hammond, say they got their stuff in West Hammond, whil? the cries we pinch say they got t'tewed in Hammond or Gary?" "RUBE" ZIMMERMAN, well known as center on the West Hammond Maroons, keeps himself physically fit th'se days by skating regularly on the nubile ice rink adjoining the West llar.-imond poNie station. j AS he sat in the barber chair his had 'revealed only a few straggling and j'-arelully nurtured stranris of hair. As j the barber started gently to massage the top nf bis head he cried the warn- ' ing: "Look out for Xo. ".' J05FFH H. IKJlvOV, the Mrd man ,vn made sueh a hit In Hammond last w.m eflal. BOOn )n whiting and Chicago. Already many bird rl.ist Chicago. Already many houses are tinder onstruction in Hammond beeause of his visit. on a charge of assault and battery? -p lie e.ttv offleir.l was arta-kd In his of.ir(5 vesterdav. He's Mill rubbing his -w tv,ay wou(lerJns vhat to do. "I) you REMEMF.ER." A lot of overseas veterans will when they meet tonight at Odd Fellows Hail, 17? State street. Entertainment, smok'S and re- , ir)C jt plintoll the satr. color as .aving it pointed i the ftiv vcr. j AGAIN the do thing's differently in west Hammond. Tax Collector Peter j Anker was there yesterday on the first lot five visits during the collecting ! rriod- The huik btm ,,he TcrUy's ta"p as paiu neiorc nc icu. Ji.a iciuaiiilng lour tr;ib will be quiet. In other cities .the big rush is on the last day. H. G. AFSTGEN. 553 Sibley street, thinks O. K". ThomaH is some flivver driver since the episode at Oak Glen the other day when Messrs. Thomas. Austgen. Kaelln and O'Rrien were re- , from a funeral at Kankakee. Aftr bumplnK another car. the flivver took to the fields, uprooted some stumps and got back on the road unscatched. HOW popular is a movie? George McIIie. some critic of the rieture game himself, registered genuine surprise : when he saw the owner of Earabtc's j I.oop theater. Chicago, plunk dow n : St 1.000 for Harold Lloyd's latest J comedy. The price paid is for a two weeks showing and is the highest price ! ever paid for any picture in Chicago, s-"- Cure.-
LITTLE GIRL III PRECARIOUS Eveleyn Gregory Fund W. O. Paxtou $50.00 Girls Junior Club 2.00 Edward J. Bohling 10.00 J. Harvey Reid . 10. 00 -Mrs. Eva. Kiteheil 5.00 John J'asca.lly 5.00 J. W. Savery 5.f)Q Jacob and William Schloer.. S.00 E. C Minas Co. Employes 21.60 Friend 1.00 Times Office Employes 8.00 O. V- Duckworth 2.00 Mrs. F. C. 1. 25.00 Mrs. K. B. Powley 2.00 Sugar Handy . 3.00 Louis Toboda j.oo Leo Cook l.OO Charles Walters 1.00 A. Dorscho 1.00 W. .Hottell , 1.00 John Patterson 100 F. Tounkers 1.00 X. E. Stonebreaker . .. 100 Friend 1.00 Hammond Candy Co. 5.00 Total to Tuesday noon J16S.S0 i While Hammond people wait with up- ; lifted hand, undecided whether to aid; i ( j their valentine-girl, that pftlful crea- ! lure lies in a shrouded room at St. j Margaret's hcepital, her body blacken- ) ed with the fearful burns she received J ' a month ago when her dresses caught 1 lire, and repeats In her lucid moments that she is dying dying. At 4 o'clock this morning her family I was summoned to her bedslie. Physic ians then thought her end Imminent. Strychnine and other heart, stimulants were administered and tho little val-cntlne-glrl revived, f-he passed the tem porary crisis and again lapsed into that j coma wherein she re-lives that tyrri- j lying scene in the kitchen of her home j when tongues of flame stripped her of j her clothing and all but burned out or J the frail body the spark of life. j At 3 o'clock this afternoon her con- i dltion was unchanged. j Through efforts of The Times a trained nurse was located yesterday in Chi- j cago. Eveleyn'a -brother, 1 51 men C, j Gregory, who has done everything in his power to aid his sister, brought the ; j nurse to Hammond. She Is Ml; j Florence Donnelly, of T'rexel Boulevard f hospital and Is espeeially trained in the i r"j fy9 -.tA-.a Til-- t - ! t Ir. George M. Cook, tho attending i physician, yesterday called into con- j sultatlon, Tr. O. . 'Ielton. Roth are battling with all tho resources at their command to save Eveleyn's life. Other complications have entered into the condition cf the little girl to make her fight for existence problematical of success. Because her organs refuse to function properly and because the poisons incurred with the burns cannot escape, physicians fear that her life is being gradually stifled by the noxious toxins that remain In her body. Today's contributions to tbe Evcleyn Gregory Fund included Jll from those not too busy to think about the misfortunes of their fellow creatures and ?5 from the Hammond Candy Company, ever ready to aid worthy projects. It Is better, one Imagines, to sacrifice $1 toward the reeovery of little Kveleyn than $5 toward a beautiful Moral spray for her grave. The Times will be glad to hear from these interested In saving the life of Hammond's vale ntlne-girl. FOR CAPITAL CONFAB Fifty Hammondites and Their Wives Go on Special Train to Capital. The Rotary Club. fifty members j strong, and their wive.- left today in j three special ears for Indianapolis t- i iitend the district conference of Rotary Clubs. 1 This conffrenee is for the purpose V" J bringing together the members of all J the Rotary Cl'ihn of the stale for the purpose rf further developing the com- ; mjnity feeling as related to the state ; as a whole. There are many striking ; features on the program, among then1 ; addresses by leaicrs in business ani ; education of international fame. Among the vents -,r. which Ham-: mond club will participct is the bowl- i ir.g tournament in which Pert Steel- ! man. caotain of the Rotary Club bowl- ; ing team, has entered two five-men s teams. The club has leased one entire floor j r f the Severn Hotel and will keep open j house for its members and friends. The club will teturn in special cars, j leaving Indianapolis after the banquet'' Wednesday evening CROWN rOINT. Ind., Feb. 51. The county commissioners met for their weekly meeting on Monday. Tile tnalj ter of aTine.va ilon of Hobnrt townsMip J was discused at length, delegations bei ing present In favor of the project and I those opposed to it presenting their objection The matter was taken under advisement for one week, the matter btinr decided next Monday.
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NA L03ED f INTERNATIONAL f-CWS SERVICE IXKIAN.M'OUS, Ind.. Feb. 21. -State Fank ''oimnihaioner ;!lfi!"i-s Camp wtrt to Corydon, Ind., today to investigate t.ie serious tltuation created by the closir.f;' 'he Corydon National bank and Farmers' Savings and Trust company of that place. The closing fol'owed examiner's repents that charged officers of the two ! inst i t u t ions with speculating !n oil
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(BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERViCt ROCHESTER. Mich.. Feb. 21. Two sacks of registered mail from Detroit were stolen from the depot here today. Sheriff James Butler and half a dozen deputies are on the trail of the robbers. The mail was thrown from the Detroit train shortly after 8 o'clock last night. It was taken into the depot and the depot locked for the night. The loss was discovered when the station was opened this morning. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 WICHITA. Kans.. Feb. 21. One man was killed and seven persons were injured, two seriously when a Rock Island railroad passenger train demolished a motor bus at a street crossing here today. (BULLETIN) 'INTERNATIONAL NFWS SERVICE! DESDEMONA. Tex., Feb. 2!. W. H. Kelly, his wife and their four-year-old daughter. Pearl, were dead tolay from burns sustained in a most unusual explosion. The automobile in which they were riding in the oil fields passed over an accumulation of gas which was sweeping from the ground. The exhaust from the motor ignited the gas and a terrific explosion occurred which wrecked the car. Two other children were badly burned but will probabJyjcover BOY, PAGE CHIEF 8UNDERIGHT AWAY! Here Are a Couple of Plain Clothes Dicks Who Seem to Have Nothing to Do. Reporters sometimes turn deteetives merely for reereation. Times' repeaters don't like to anpe.ir iti the role of sienth but here's a couple; of bnrgiarv-scat'os that Chief Fund" might like to know u'uout. At the r esidn'-e of Ever ett V'oi : , 12110 Garfield avenue, a thief discovered by Mrs. Dorsey in the hall outside her bedroom door, was chased by Mrs. Forsey's son, leaped through a back door arid f.cd afteH the young man had fired
BANKS BY EXAMINERS stocks and 'being- "nearly hunted." The examiners charged that U. C Applegate. G. W. App'-egat and W. E. C-ok. the officers involved, had signed other person's names to obtain loans and had borrowed excessively. Tlic bank and trust company, allied institutions, i.ad deposits of $1,650,000. Federal authorities had participated in the probe which resulted in the closing of the banks. , '5 t '5 i.lii' (BULLETIN) BLOOMINGTON. Ind., Feb. 21. Lake county high schools will join with more than 250 other commissioned high schools of Indiana in the annual state discussion contest conducted under the auspices of Indiana Lniversity luring March and April. (BULLETIN) I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! SAN FRANCISCO. Calif.. Feb. 21. Undaunted by failure to secure a vise to her passport from the Japanese consul-general here, and undismayed by cabled statements that though permitted to land in Japan, she could not talk on her mission, Margaret Sanger, militant advocate of birth control, sailed for the Orient on the laiyo Maru today. (BULLETIN) 'INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! DUBLIN. Feb. 2 1, -The De Valera party in the Ard Fheis won the first victorxy in the Sinn Fein general assembly today when that body voted in favor of open balloting, which had been advocated by the former president. (BULLETIN) I iNT(c NATIONAL N t W S SERVICE BOSTON. Feb. 21. -Joseph C. Pelletier was rrniovel today by the Massachusetts supreme court from the office of district attorney of Suffolk county. He was tried on charges of gross misconduct in office, brought in by Attorney General J. Weston Allen. two shots at Mm. At 12i2 Garfield. Mrs. T. J. Rtose te'.hs about encountering a tough character who appeared fit the kitchen door at 1 .1 . m . demanding "bread ard butte-. ' 5-he. and her little daughfr were aloiM in the room. They had just returned with Ml. Re.se, completing his day's labor as a jitneur. He wis puttinr tis ear away in o garage about one block distant. When Mrs. Rese declined to admit the hard supplbant he became sassy and was about to force entrance when Mr. Reese entering the front door appeared on the scene. The man fled. Well, as the man at rext desk says, if The Times reporters claim to be detectives in thir moments of leisure, iet them surprise the pi "-lice department atici bring in. a coup!'- rial erooks. Few Irish Illegitimates. DUBLIN. Ireland has the lowest number of illegitimate children in the world. The total of children born out of wedlock is only 2 S per thousar-.d.
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Sensational Pistol Battle With Police, Leader of Trio Escapes With Loot The S20.000 pay roll of the Grassel'.l Chemical company is be'ie'-'ed to have been the aim of three daring bandits yesterday afternoon, who held up ard robbed the soft drirk parlor of Charic F.orburj, .044 Kennedy avenue. East Chicago, obtaining nearly St, 000 In checks and currency. P. Yarutis, a baker at 4i'.1S M-i-viile avenue, was also robbed by thsame gang of 140 earlier in the afternoon. . One robber, described as six feet tall, slender built, about 2ft years old, wearing a brown overcoat and brown wooly cap, escape with the money. Hiu two companions, Edward Peters. Chicago, and Win. Woo'.om, 3233 Union avenue, Chicago, the taxi driver, were captured by the East Chicago police, assisted by Deputy Consia.oe Ben Gould and Mike Retro after a running pistol battle of several blocks. SEXSATrOAl. ESCAPE. Leaping into a waiting taL t.ie bandits attempted to make their escape, driving north on Kennedy avenue. They had no sooner left their victims behind than a volley of shots were fired st them and the car brought to a stop. Both robbers Jumped front the machine and ran in an adjoining alley from where they were tetnporararlly lost sight of. Their trail was again picked up by Gould ar.d Petio. who were leading the running- fight with pistols, gettingr in return a constant barrage of shots from the fleeln bandits. One robber was corralled IS the rear of a house near the Garfiel high school. The other was found to have separated fro-m him, making his escape with the money. Peter Napier had taken charge of the taxi driver, which had- run north on Kennedy and south on Melville avenue where they were met by the East Chicago police patrol, commanded by Officers Kerr and Edmunds. The taxi driver and f ho captured robber was brought to the East Chicago police station. CHEMICAL. PLANT PAY U. Customary on pay day at tho Chemical plant, an aggregation of tiear'y twenty or thirty men had gathered Fa the corner soft drink parlor at 151st and Kennedy avenue to pay their monthly drink biils and treat themselves to a glass of "suds" before meandering home. WhtTe assembled along the bar in the usual fashion sipping their drinks and springing a line of "gags," two men sprung from their midst, flashed beany artillery and called the house to oder. No second invitation was necessary an hands flew- up automatically. Jesse James or the younger brothers couldn't have pulled a neater surprise on the bunch. The soft drink gang thought they were being played with. One said "Jmt a Joke. I suppose." The other replied "I'm not taking any chances." Rut it soon dawned upon the party that it was the real thing. HAVDITS MAKE HAH. Having aligned their victims against the railing of tho bar, as If for army inspection, the method cf relie-ving each of his individual possessions-, w: adopted. This accomplished, the t'i bandit, who had sr far posed as chief "Continued on Paire"FIve "" Bandits Also Pajr Call In Whiting (5FECIAL TO THr TIMES WinTING, Ind.. Feb. 21 It was easing time at the Fink & Winsberg store, 1'Jltt s. and ScUrungu ae., Whlthifc. last night. Only a short time before, P. Fstik had suggetted that his parfr. r, M :-. Winsbcrg. lay aside his business r.-.res and start for his home In Cbb-ago. Mr. Wmtd-t-rg demurred. "I'll stay till elosinf time," he sa'e "You never c;m tell what will hnppep " Bo he get in on what happened a fe-v minutes later. Wlnsbeig started to clean out the cash drawer. It was jay day at the Standard Oil plant and colloctiona . I been good. First he took out $r.O in change for starting business tod.ij This he hid in a showcase. Then be counted up tho remainder. There was i SS3.6o ail tol-J. Ihis he split wttu Mr. Finli. Fiaik walked toward tho front dour while Winsberg continued to fuss around the cash register. A stranger entered tho door. An oid blue handkerchief Iconccaicd part of his face, lie ordered Mr. FinJ; to, h.-K; up his hards. Tli'-u he noticed Wi-.i--berg ar.d included him in the o -eh rI'oth men obeyed w'.-,en they saw tho nickel plated revolve- in the hands of the. bandit. The visitor quickly "frisked ' both of them, removing the money from their pockety. Ho paid r.o attention to their watches and other valuables. He also passed up the merchandise which was within easy reach. His failure to le..around saved the $50 which was hltblt t in the show case. Packing out of the door the man fiashod down J21.st street. FntU sayi he disappeared in the direction of the Standard Oil Co. gate. Wrinsbc.rg meanwhile was calling- trie poHco who arrived promptly. They have not beta able to find trace of. the bar.dit.