Talk Talks With Gun and Burglars Make Fleet Exit — The News, 9 March 1933
A crime brief about burglars at the H&H plant on Delaware Street; nightwatchman Langley Talk confronted them and drove them off.
Transcription
| a } e Talk Talks With Gun and Burglars th Make Fleet Exit. Two burglars were routed ae ithe H. & H. Coffee Company plant | lat 601 Delaware street last night | | by Nightwatchman Langley Talk jafter they had apparently lain in | wait for the watchman on separ- late sides of the building. Talk, making his rounds, spotted |’ one of the men near a window on/| lthe railroad track side of the build-| | ing. When the watchman ap- | | proached the prowler fled and Talk | fired one shot after him. |; <As the watchman fired, another | l stupa broke from the front of the | | building and ran, joining his ac- |: . complice near an automobile which | .|had been parked with the motor |. j running on the Walnut street side }of the building. } | The burglars leaped into the | automobile and departed at high speed, escaping as, Talk fired at them again. | Radio Patrolmen Leichman and King conducted a search for the | prowlers when they were nn to the scene but failed to find them. Talk believed that the men had! gone to separate sides of the build- r ing to wait and overpower him | ; when he appeared. | A eee es ||
Source
- Newspaper: The News (San Antonio, Texas) — 9 March 1933 — page 7
- Newspapers.com: https://www.newspapers.com/image/1266664509/ (accessed 2026-05-06)
- PDF: 1933-03-09-the-news-talk-talks-with-gun-and-burglars-make-fleet-exit.pdf
