Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1902 — LOBES $7,000 WORTH OF GEMS [ARTICLE]

LOBES $7,000 WORTH OF GEMS

Woman Leaves Valuables on Bank Counter at Duluth, Minn. Duluth, Minn., dispatch: Seven thousand dollars’ worth of diamonds and other precious stones were stolen from the counter in the First National bank building. The victim was Mrs. T. D. Merrill, a prominent society woman and wife of the senior member of the firm of Merrill & Bing, timber men. Mrs. Merrill had Just come from the safety deposit vaults, where she drew out the jewels and laid them down, then leaving the building. Upon discovering her loss she hastened back, but the jewels had disappeared. The police say there is no clew to the thief.