January 31, 2012

SandBox Comments: Pueblo Chieftain "Jewel thief pulls off 'most daring and sensational robbery' "

Peter Strescino:

"The "most daring and sensational robbery ever committed in Pueblo" occurred at the home of John A. Thatcher, 419 W. 14th St., on Saturday, Feb. 3.

The Thatchers, hosting a glittering party for their relatives and friends, suffered the loss of "$10,000 worth of diamonds and jewels," taken by a "porch climber on the Greenwood side of the house" who brazenly entered what is now the Rosemount Museum and took several pieces of Mrs. Thatcher's jewels (a pair of diamond earrings, a solitaire diamond ring and a $10 bill, among many other pieces).

Crime news filled that week's (Jan. 29-Feb. 4) papers.

August Fink, an apparently lively 10-year-old, escaped the County Poor Farm and was on the loose. The Bessemer boy needed "discipline and correction," the paper said...."

"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."

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