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Hall County Newspaper Tidbits, 1910 - 1919
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Grand Island Daily Independent
Friday, February 27, 1914
THREE ROBBERIES
Organized Gang Thought to Have
Worked City Last Night.
After a quiet two weeks in police circles, there was excitement enough last night to partially make up for any dullness. It would seem that a gang of robbers are working east along the Union Pacific, as three robberies occurred in this city last evening, following a similar event which took place at Lexington on Thursday evening. The police yesterday received word of the Lexington robberies, in which two houses were broken into and a diamond ring, a ruby cluster ring and a lady's watch were taken.
Last evening between the hours of 7 and 11 o'clock the residence of Frank Alden, at 422 North Pine street; Clyde Johnson at 412 West Fourth street and the Dolan Fruit company's building were entered and ransacked. At the Alden home a sum of $8 in money, an open face watch with small gold lettering on the face, an Elgin watch, 17 jewel, with fob, chain and charm with initials "F. E. A." on the latter; fifty pennies, several quarters of 1853 date and one dollar dated 1844. At the Johnson residence a lady's diamond ring valued at $45 was taken, together with a watch and $10 worth of "Buffalo" nickles. At the Dolan Fruit company's store nothing has been found missing as yet, but whether or not anything has been taken will take time to determine.
The method of the robbers was simplicity itself, they effecting an entrance through the front doors, either by a jimmy or a skeleton key, locking the door after them and going out the back way after ransacking the house. The police drag net was thrown out and some thirteen vags and hobos occupied the bull pen this morning and were given a "going over" by the chief, but nothing was discovered which would throw any light upon the occurrences of last night. The officials are rather insistent in their belief that it is the work of an organized gang, and that the perpetrators of the robberies "beat it" out of the city during the night with their loot. A call was also received from a home on West Koenig street, but proved to be a false alarm.
Grand Island Daily Independent
Friday, February 27, 1914
IS MISSING
R. E. Plummer, a Traveling Man, Drops from Sight.
Due to inquiries made by L. A. Koolman, of Hastings, his father-in-law, the police of this city are looking for R. E. Plummer, a commercial traveler for an auto supply house, who seemingly has mysteriously disappeared. The missing man is described as 25 years of age, smooth-faced, weight between 140 and 150 pounds, height, 5 feet, 10 inches, and wore a blue serge suit, gray overcoat and tan shoes. Mr. Koolman stated over the phone to Chief Arbogast that he had received a letter yesterday purporting to be from his son-in-law, but while the letter was postmarked Kansas City, the missive itself bore no date line. From its contents he was inclined to believe the the young man had suffered an injury or was sick in a hospital at some place and asked that an investigation be made. He described the grip carried by Mr. Plummer and the police located the same last evening in the ticket office at the Union Pacific depot, where it was placed nearly two weeks age, or coincident with the time that the missing man dropped from sight. The grip was sent to the Hastings relatives this morning and the police are doing all in their power to fathom the mystery surrounding the man's disappearance.
Late this afternoon the following message was received through the Associated Press:
Hastings, Neb., Feb. 27. Roy E. Plummer, who travels for a Chicago auto supply house, and who has been missing for the past ten days, is held the unwilling prisoner of two women in a Kansas City hotel, according to a letter received by his wife. He declares in this that he was engaged in conversation by these women at the depot at Grand Island and remembered nothing thereafter until he regained consciousness in the Kansas City hotel.
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