LEAVE HIM BLEEDING IN STORE
Item
- Title
- LEAVE HIM BLEEDING IN STORE
- Source
- The Seattle Star [WA]
- Date
- 1/31/20
- page
- 1
- Identifier
- https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wa/batch_wa_bainbridge_ver01/data/sn87093407/00200290823/1920013101/0769.pdf
- Crime
- Assault
- Subject
- bludgeoned; robbery; young man
- Gender of alleged offender
- male alleged offender (2)
- Gender of alleged victim
- male alleged victim
- Law enforcement involved
- police
- Stage of the Legal System
- crime
- Location
- in state; Seattle
- Length of story
- 266
- Description
- Two Young Holdups Stage Daring Robbery in Pine Street District - Two daylight thugs brutally assaulted A. ("Dad") Fillman, 85-year-old grocery store proprietor, at 1531 Seventh ave., beat him over the head with the butt of a heavy revolver, dragged him into a back room, rifled the cash register of $15, and escaped at 10:30 a.m. Saturday. The robbery was committed within 100 feet of Pine st. downtown traffic, an artery where dozens of autos and pedestrians pass. The thugs were youths about 20 years old, weighed about 130 pounds and wore dark suits. according to the broken story told by the old man, who stumbled out on Seventh ave., crying for help, after regaining consciousness. ASKED FOR MILK, THEN SLUGGED HIM. "Two young men came into the store and asked for some canned milk and syrup," Fillman told members of the crowd that assembled when he cried for help. "I turned around to get the articles for them, and I woke up in the back room. When I came out into the store again, they were gone." "If I had known that they had come to rob me, I would have licked them," the aged storekeeper told police who hurried to the scene of the robbery when summoned by nearby storekeepers. No trace was found of the bandits by motorcycle officers who searched the neighborhood. Fillman was painfully cut up on top of the head by the blow of the revolver butt, and was removed to the city hospital. He lives alone in a back room of the store. He has relatives living in Pittsburg.
