A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > District of Columbia http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=323 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=31323 Submitted by: barbara-dave Article Title: Washington Post Article Date: April 8 1912 Article Description: Robbery Page 12 Article Text: Washington Post April 8, 1912 Robbery Page 12 PRESSMAN ROBBED OF WATCH. Negro Asks the Time, Snatches the Timepiece, and Escapes. Because he imprudently displayed his watch when a well-dressed negro asked him the time at 2 o'clock yesterday morning, while in an alley between L and M and North Capitol and First streets northwest. Robert M. DAY, a pressman of 35 K street northwest, was robbed of a timepiece worth $80. DAY told the police that he was taking a short cut through the alley on his way home from the printing office where he is employed. He said the negro stopped him with a polite request to know the time, and as DAY drew the watch from his pocket the negro snatched it, breaking the chain, and made good his escape. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com