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Highway Robber

"Tonight, madam, it's your money *and* your life."

Artist: Kev Walker

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"MAIL IS STOLEN AT GUN'S POINT ON LONELY ROAD," Toronto Star. September 22, 1933. Page 1. ---- Robber Makes Trenton Carrier Hand Over Registered Letters ---- EARLY IN MORNING ---- Man Asked Messenger Carrying Bags From Junction to Give Him Lift ---- Trenton, Sept. 22. - At the point of a gun Harold Clarke, Trenton mail- carrier, was held up on the deserted Wooler highway, north of Trenton, at 4 o'clock this morning and forced to hand the Montreal to Trenton registered mail to an unidentified robber. who, gathering up the loot, escaped across the fields. The value of the stolen mail has not yet been learned.

Every morning about four o'clock Clarke meets the Montreal to Toronto C.N.R. train No. 19 at Trenton Junction, two miles north of Trenton.

This morning he got the mail as usual, and drove away.

About 500 yards from the station he was hailed by a man who asked him for a ride. When Clarke stopped the man attempted to climb into the back of the truck, but Clarke objected and invited him to sit beside him. The man agreed and Clarke drove on.

Half a mile farther on, where the Wooler road turns north and west from the road leading into Trenton, the man produced a gun and ordered Clarke to drive up the side road. The latter, being unarmed, did as ordered.

"Do as I say and you won't get hurt," said the gunman.

A little farther along the lonely road, the robber ordered Clarke to stop and turn out the lights of the car.

He obeyed and was then ordered to point out the registered mail. "I don't know one bag from the other," Clarke replied.

Slit Bags With Knife Climbing into the rear of the truck, the man started to rip open all the bags with a knife. In the Hillier and the Wellington bags, he found nothing but the third bag he opened was the Montreal-to-Trenton bag containing registered mail numbered 441, 6,258, 10,594, 10,589 and 459.

Gathering up his booty, the man jumped from the truck and ran across the fields to where he had a car waiting, Clarke said. Immediately Clarke drove back to the station and notified the police by telephone. Within five minutes, police were on the scene, but despite an all-night search of the countryside they failed to find any trace of the robber.

The man is described as being young and about five feet eight inches tall. He wore a brown overcoat with a fedora hat pulled down over his eyes.

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"MAGISTRATE GIVES A TWO YEARS' TERM TO HIGHWAY ROBBER," Vancouver Sun. November 18, 1912. Page 5. ---- Characterized by both police authorities and magistrate as one of the most desperate men ever operating in Vancouver, Charles Howard, alias Charles Hewitt, well-known as "Strong Arm Hill," received a sentence of two years' hard labor in police court Saturday morning, when found guilty of robbery with violence.

This sentence will run concurrently with the six months' sentence meted out by Magistrate Shaw on Friday morning, when the accused was found guilty of stealing small sums of money from the Vancouver rooms on Hastings street. Considerable credit for the tracing of these two crimes is due to Detectives Lewis and Tisdale, who, with but a meagre description, brought both the theft and robbery home to him.

According to the evidence, Howard had dragged John Kennedy, a middle- aged laborer, into an alley off Cordova street last Wednesday night, and, after hitting him repeatedly over the head until the unfortunate man was in a dazed condition, robbed him of over $170 in money and cheques.

SOUTH VANCOUVER, Nov. 17. - "I knew I was doing wrong, but the road was impassable," said Bougat McGehebry of Twenty-seventh avenue, Hastings townsite, on Saturday, when charged with riding a bicycle on the sidewalk at Collingwood east. Defendant added that it was early in the morning and there was nobody about. Magistrate Thomas imposed a fine of $5 and costs.

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"CURTIS WAS ACQUITTED," Montreal Gazette. November 7, 1913. Page 3. --- No Evidence Connecting Him With Auto Hold-Up ---- There was no evidence produced in the Court of Special Sessions yesterday morning at the trial Aubrey Curtis, charged with highway robbery, on which the accused could be held, so Judge Bazin discharged him.

Curtis is the young man who was arrested four weeks ago on a charge of having been implicated in holding up of an automobile the on Queen Mary road, Cote des Nelges, containing Castor Laisne, two other men and three women. Laisne said he was robbed of $150 by four masked men.

Curtis was arrested the day following the robbery, when he went to Laisne and promised for a consideration to tell him who had robbed him. He was turned over the police and is alleged to to have told a story to Deputy Chief Carpentier, in which he implicated himself and four others, but when he was locked up, he is alleged to have denied that he know anything about the robbery and said he was simply trying to get a little money.

When the case was called yesterday morning. It was learned Gaston Laisne had gone to that Paris. and that Deputy Chief Charpentier was out of the city.

Judge Bazin remarked that Deputy Chief Charpentier should be in court when a case in which the accused is alleged to have made confession to him was to come up.

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"HIGHWAY MAN GOES TO "PEN"," St. Catharines Standard. October 31, 1913. Page 1. ---- Victor Griener Sentenced to Serve Three and a Half Years ---- He Admitted Holding up a Man, With a Revolver at Fort Erie ---- Welland, Oct. 31 - Victor Grenler of Buffalo, aged 23 year, was sentenced by his Honor Judge Livingstone yesterday to three and a half years in Kingston penitentiary for holding up a man at Fort Erie in August and robbing him. The prisoner pleaded guilty of the charge.

Grenier was recognized at the time of the hold-up, and County Crown Attorney Cowper instituted extradition proceedings, through which the prisoner was turned over to the Canadian authorities at Fort Erie on Monday. Magistrate Clarke committed him for trial. A signed statement made by Grenier, admitting his guilt, was presented his Honor.

The Crown Attorney said that the prisoner had served terms at Blackwell's Island and Elmira State prison. This was a serious crime and too much leniency was an invitation to the thugs of Buffalo to come over to this side and commit deeds of violence.

Grenier admitted that he, had served time at Elmira, but denied having been committed to Blackwell's Island. He denied, too, that he lived by a life of crime. He had a trade and worked most of the time. It was seldom that he committed theft, but whenever he did he had the misfortune to get caught. He pleaded for a light sentence at the prison farm and promised to be honest after he was returned. It was for larceny that he served three years at Elmira, and he had been out of jail for eight months when he got into this trouble. He had hymn working In Erie until a week before he committed this robbery and was thrown out of work there by a strike.

"I could sentence you to penitentiary for life for this crime," said His Honor, but you are a young man. I believe that the sentence I am going to pass is far more lenient that you deserve. Your crime was one of the most serious that could be committed. I will sentence you to serve three yours and six months, in Kingston penitentiary."

[Grenier was 23, from Buffalo, a machinist by trade, and two previous terms, at Elmira as established at the trial and a term at the Auburn Prison, both in New York. He was convict #F-683 at Kingston Penitentiary and worked in the machine shop. He was reported twice in 1914 for minor offences - losing 10 days remission, and was reported three times in June 1915 for insolence and fighting, spending a week in solitary. He was released and then deported in mid-1916.]

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"JAIL BIRD GOES BACK," Ottawa Journal. October 17, 1913. Page 10. ---- A Week out of Penitentiary Jim Evans is Caught Robbing Stranger. ---- Montreal, Oct. 17.-Jim Evans, alías John Dote, an ex-convict with a particularly bad record, pleaded guilty in the arraignment court to a charge of highway robbery preferred against him by John Brothers.

Evans was arrested on Tuesday by Constable Robitaille, of the Chenneville Street Police Station, who, while patrolling his beat saw two men engaged in a scuffle in Craig street, near Victoria Square. Hurrying to the scene the officer was just in time to assist Brothers, who was getting the worst of the encounter, and who was yelling for help as Evans, who had attempted to steal his watch and chain, after jumping on him, was in the act of breaking away. Evans was brought to the station, where it was learned that he had just been released from the penitentiary last week.

With two jail terms and two spaces of three years each in the penitentiary to his credit he lost no time when liberated, but got right back to his old trade. He had met Brothers in a saloon, told him a hard luck story, and Brothers bought him a few drinks. When they left the saloon Evans showed his gratitude by his attack on his new friend and would have relieved him of his watch and chain but for the timely arrival of the constable.

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“Customs Officer Victim of Bandit,” Bertie Township Herald (Fort Erie). July 30, 1931. Page 1. --- Hold-up man, however, get exactly nothing for his trouble ---- A hold-up that produced no results for the bandit apparently an amateur was staged Saturday night on the lonely road from Shipyard to Stevenson used as a detour while a new bridge is being built on the Bowen Road.

Oscar Climenhage, a customs officer at the Peace Bridge, was proceeding home Saturday night along the detour, when his car developed motor trouble, and he was forced to stop. A minute later, another car came along the road, passed Climenhage, and stopped a short distance up the road. Presently, a man who had apparently walked back through the bush along the road stepped out beside the car, and pointing a gun, ordered him to put up his hands.

Climenhage was ordered to hand over his money and replied that he had none. He was ordered out of the car but managed to conceal his watch in the seat, an unnecessary precaution since the bandit apparently lost his nerves and without searching Climenhage departed. The latter immediately went to the nearest phone and notified the police.

A sequel to the story occurred later in the evening when Traffic Officer Verne Detenbeck, proceeding along the Garrison road, saw a car come out of a side-road, and proceed across the highway without stopping. The officer followed for a shirt distance and before giving up the chase, secured what he thought was the license number of the car. Later, when Detenbeck was notified of the attempted robbery, he thought it possible that the car he had seen was the bandits, and notified the officials at the Peace Bridge. However, when the car with the designated license appeared at the border, it was found to be driven by a respectable businessman accompanied by his family and he was allowed to proceed.

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Man involved in snatchings in NCR held after gunfight in Noida

Man involved in snatchings in NCR held after gunfight in Noida

A man suspected behind several cases of phone and jewellery snatchings in the National Capital Region was arrested in Noida on Monday after a gunfight with the police in which he suffered injuries, officials said. The accused, who hails from Khoda colony in adjoining Ghaziabad, and his aide were intercepted by a team of Sector 24 police station around 8 a.m., following a tip-off, Additional…

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