People v. Sicks

On January 26, 1918, Frank Rose, an officer of the Heller-Rose Company, a corporation operating a retail jewelry store at 901 Marshall Field Annex, in Chicago, was robbed of jewelry belonging to the company worth over $150,000. About five o’clock in the evening two men entered the store and represented themselves to be detectives from headquarters looking for jewelry thieves. They had with them copies of Detective, a bulletin carrying pictures and descriptions of persons wanted for crime. They called the employees of the store together to show them the published pictures and asked them if…