People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1894 — BOLD THIEVES. [ARTICLE]

BOLD THIEVES.

They Rob * Chicago Jeweler of Cash and Good* Amounting to SG.OOO. Chicago, Oct. 81.—Two robbers made a bold play Tuesday afternoon in a down-town jewelry store which netted them about $6,000 worth of watches and jewels, and the police have not caught them yet Soon after 2 o’clock G. W. Brethauer, the senior member of the wholesale jewelry firm of Brethauer & Co., 71 Washington street, ' left the office to go to Marshall Field’s ' retail store around the corner and left ■ his son in charge. The office is on the first floor of the building in plain sight of the occupants of the big office buildings. Young Brethauer was bending over a showcase when the robbers entered. One carried a revolver and the other brandished a murderous-looking piece of lead pipe. : The jeweler was ordered to hold up his hands, which he did. and then he was told to enter the vault, the door of which stood open. He hesitated and he was thrown in by a robber gripping his throat. The door was , closed and the desperate thieves buu- ; died the contents of show cases and the cash box into a large sack. The work occupied only a few minutes and when the father of the imprisoned jeweler returned he suspected nothing. A commercial traveler soon came in and hearing the noise of pounding on the vault* door, the discovery of the exhausted prisoner and the robbery was made, but there was no trace of the robbers.