'GOOD MORNING!
HAVE YOU BEEN HELD UP?"
Hardware Dealers Report an
Increase in the Sale of
Firearms.
QUIET LAST NIGHT
Four Attempted Robberies
Reported Friday Night
--No Arrests Made.
Hardware Dealers Report an
Increase in the Sale of
Firearms.
QUIET LAST NIGHT
Four Attempted Robberies
Reported Friday Night
--No Arrests Made.
Exchanges of the season's greetings intermingled with the inquiry "Have you been held up today." is tending to make the robberies which have occurred in Colombia during the last few weeks a rival to Christmas cheer as a subject of conversation.
Hardware dealers report an enormous increase in the sale of firearms to citizens who say they wish to protect themselves; late workers going home at night find the middle of the street the best walking and shadows of all sizes and shapes are under suspicion by the lone pedestrian.
Last night was exceedingly quiet according to the police, only one attempted robbery being reported and that turned out to be a fiasco. D.B. Gladwell, a motorcycle rider for the Harley service, was stopped about 10 o'clock last night by two rough looking men on West Broadway, who asked for a ride. Mr. Gladwell drove his machine to town and reported to the police that an attempt had been made to hold him up. The police went to West Broadway and found that the supposed highwaymen were two men, under the influence of liquor, who had been sent home earlier in the night. They had decided to return to town and had asked for a ride....
Hardware dealers report an enormous increase in the sale of firearms to citizens who say they wish to protect themselves; late workers going home at night find the middle of the street the best walking and shadows of all sizes and shapes are under suspicion by the lone pedestrian.
Last night was exceedingly quiet according to the police, only one attempted robbery being reported and that turned out to be a fiasco. D.B. Gladwell, a motorcycle rider for the Harley service, was stopped about 10 o'clock last night by two rough looking men on West Broadway, who asked for a ride. Mr. Gladwell drove his machine to town and reported to the police that an attempt had been made to hold him up. The police went to West Broadway and found that the supposed highwaymen were two men, under the influence of liquor, who had been sent home earlier in the night. They had decided to return to town and had asked for a ride....
[The Daily Missourian, Columbia, Missouri, Sunday Morning, December 24, 1916. Ninth Year Number 97 Pg. 1]
Apparently the "attempted robbery" on the "Harley service" gent didn't work out so well....
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