Las Vegas Age

Watchman
Is
Believed
Pawn
Shop
Thief
Young
Man Befriended
By
Max
Goldberg
Sought In
California: Stole Gun, Ammunition, Valuables.

Befriended and given employment by Max Goldberg, of the Las Vegas Pawnshop, and then allowed to sleep in the pawnshop as watchman, partially to avoid his having to rent a room, John R. Cable is alleged by Goldberg to have skipped out night before last with $350 in cash and a suitcase and watches and diamond rings and other jewelry held for pledges in the shop.

Cable, while he was given some responsibilities had no authority to go to the safe according to Goldberg, but is thought to have taken the money and jewelry at a time when Goldberg was out of the shop for a time, and at a time when Miss Myers and Mrs. Abrams were in the room.

Goldberg had been checking up on his stock, with Cable helping him. Goldberg found three stock watches missing, he stated yesterday, and then he had remarked to Cable that they would "re-check tomorrow."

Out to Lunch

They had then carried the jewelry and watches to the safe, and Goldberg had gone out for dinner, leaving Cable, Miss Myers and Mrs. Abrams in the shop.

"It seems to me, since small things had previously come up missing, and since my statement of a recheck came when I had found some shortages in his presence, that he not only got away with the things taken that night, but had taken other things previously," said Goldberg.

"He had been known to offer to sell a diamond ring in Las Vegas, and he had left a suit, taken from the shop, at the rooming house where he had stayed previously.

A pistol and box of shells were also taken by Cable, it is believed.

Goldberg expressed a belief that Cable had gone on the 11:15 p. m. bus toward Los Angeles, judging from the handwriting on one of the ticket stubs at the stage station.

Goldberg who has been a student of this method of identification for years, recognized the man's handwriting, immediately, he stated.

Saved His Life

Goldberg had saved Cable from burning to death while the latter was living in Goldberg's home, the pawnshop man said yesterday. He smelled smoke one night, and, rushing to Cable's bed, found one corner of it in flames and Cable breathing the smoke. He wakened the sleeping man and pulled him from the bed, and then put out the fire with a pan of water.

Cable has a brother, A. L. Cable, who is auditor of the Barnsdall Oil Company of California, his mother conducts a girls' school on Flower street in Los Angeles, and he has an uncle by the name of Lovejoy in Elko.

The young man is 24, five feet seven inches in height, weighs 150 pounds and was smooth shaven. He had thick lips and suffers some sort of throat or mouth affliction, possibly asthma, which compels him to keep his mouth open most of the time.

Officers in Los Angeles and San Francisco now have warrants for Cable's arrest.