Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1898 — After nothing At Their Own Price. [ARTICLE]

After nothing At Their Own Price.

Three Thieves Raid Leopold’s Store. About midnight Saturday night, or shortly after that Sunday morning some parties who took a somewhat too literal view of A. Leopold's offer to sell clothing at the buyer’s own price, effected on entrance into his store by prying up a rear window. There was an electric light in the store but so many articles were in the front show windows, that the interior of the store can not be seen from the» street, and the thieves thus seemingly had a clear field for their operations. It happened however that Bert Goff, son of G. W, Golf, went to the outbuilding in the rear of Goff’s restaurant, nud heard the parties in the store, and saw them through the window. He went into the restaurant and told his father, G. W. Goff, and taking revolvers they went out to capture the burglars. When they went around to the rear of the Leopold room, a confederate of the ones inside, who stood back near the fence, saw the Goffs and gave the alarm by whistling, and then ran away. The two men in the store then came to tiip open window to make their escape but Mr. Goff told them to stay inside or he would shoot them. At the same time he sent Bert around to the front to cutoff their escape in that direction. But before he could get to the front one of the thieves got there before him, and breaking the plate glass in one of the double doors, with the handle of a floor brush, he jumped through and ran down the walk towards the bridge. Young Goff fired at the man threr times, but he did not slacken his paoe. The man still inside the store did not attempt to get out, and was kept inside until the arrival of Policeman Childers, who took him to the jail. An examination of the interior of the store showed that the men were busily engaged in selecting each of'them a suit of the best clothes in the store. One had his all ready to take away, and the other, not so easy to suit, had evidently not fully selected his. After landing this fellow in jail Policeman Childers went after the strange hoboes around town with a drag net, and ran six of them in, on suspicion. These were all released Sunday morning, with an injunction to get out of town for fear of the rockpile. They got. The prisoner was examined Sunday morning by Squire Burnham, ami held to the circuit court, under SSOO bail. He gives the name of Geo. Clurk, and states his age at 84 years. He put up the old story that he met the other two men at Monon, and they got him drunk and persuaded him to into the store. He showed no indications of having been drunk when he was arrested, however. There is no question but thnt he needed a new suit of clothes and Uncle Abe Leopold says he will soon have one. The stripes will not run in the fashionable way however, nor will the fit bo like unto that of the paper on the wall, ns would have been the case with the one he had picked on, at Uncle % Abe's place.