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[[File:EdelbergAdJournalofOutdoorJan1925.jpg||thumb||Edelberg Furs ad<br>[[Journal of the Outdoor Life]] January 1925]] | |||
'''Edelberg's Furs''' was a fur emporium at [[45 Main Street|45 Main Street]]. It was started as a tailor shop by [[Lincoln Jones|Lincoln Jones]] in 1904. Jones, who had moved to Saranac Lake for his health, died in 1906, leaving the shop to [[Sam Edelberg]], who bought fur from local trappers. In time, the fur business became the shop's primary focus. | |||
By 1928 they had moved to the [[Pontiac Theatre]] building at 13-15 Broadway. | |||
----''Lake Placid News'', April 21, 1939 | |||
'''SUSPECT COUPLE OF COMPLICITY IN FUR THEFT''' | |||
'''State Police Go to Illinois to Pick Up Man and Woman Thought Connected with Edelberg Case''' | |||
A man and a woman have been arrested in Mt. Carmel, Ill., for questioning in connection with the $5,000 Edelberg fur store robbery at Saranac Lake on October 15. | |||
The pair were identified as John Campbell and Mildred Harris. | |||
The two will be returned to face indictments of first degree grand larceny and third degree burglary in connection with the crime. | |||
The indictments were handed down by the grand jury at Malone last February. | |||
Delio Bei, 38, of Astoria, is serving a 10 to 20 year term at Dannemera for participation in the crime. Bei was found in New York a week after two men and two women staged the theft. He was returned to Malone and found guilty by a Franklin county jury. | |||
Sergt. Gerald Woolsey of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation, who directed the investigation leading up to Bei's arrest, has left for Mt. Carmel to bring the pair back east. He was accompanied by Morris Edelberg, part owner of the store. | |||
Meanwhile, key witnesses of the midnight holdup have been questioned again. Expected to be called upon for information and identification when the couple are brought east are Alton B. Anderson, manager of the theatre adjoining the fur store, Ben Anjima, assistant manager, Mrs, Edward Brown, who witnessed part of the theft from her apartment across the street from the store, and others. | |||
The robbery was staged before scores of theatre goers at midnight October 15 by two men and two women. While one man remained in the robber car, another was posted as a lookout and the two women carried fur coats and capes valued at $5,000 from the store into the car. | |||
At the time of Bei's arrest, the get-away car was also seized by police. | |||
===Sources:=== | |||
* Gallos, Philip L., ''Cure Cottages of Saranac Lake'', Historic Saranac Lake, 1985, p. 82. ISBN 0-9615159-0-2 | * Gallos, Philip L., ''Cure Cottages of Saranac Lake'', Historic Saranac Lake, 1985, p. 82. ISBN 0-9615159-0-2 | ||
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Latest revision as of 17:14, 8 August 2026
Journal of the Outdoor Life January 1925
Edelberg's Furs was a fur emporium at 45 Main Street. It was started as a tailor shop by Lincoln Jones in 1904. Jones, who had moved to Saranac Lake for his health, died in 1906, leaving the shop to Sam Edelberg, who bought fur from local trappers. In time, the fur business became the shop's primary focus.
By 1928 they had moved to the Pontiac Theatre building at 13-15 Broadway.
Lake Placid News, April 21, 1939
SUSPECT COUPLE OF COMPLICITY IN FUR THEFT
State Police Go to Illinois to Pick Up Man and Woman Thought Connected with Edelberg Case
A man and a woman have been arrested in Mt. Carmel, Ill., for questioning in connection with the $5,000 Edelberg fur store robbery at Saranac Lake on October 15.
The pair were identified as John Campbell and Mildred Harris.
The two will be returned to face indictments of first degree grand larceny and third degree burglary in connection with the crime.
The indictments were handed down by the grand jury at Malone last February.
Delio Bei, 38, of Astoria, is serving a 10 to 20 year term at Dannemera for participation in the crime. Bei was found in New York a week after two men and two women staged the theft. He was returned to Malone and found guilty by a Franklin county jury.
Sergt. Gerald Woolsey of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation, who directed the investigation leading up to Bei's arrest, has left for Mt. Carmel to bring the pair back east. He was accompanied by Morris Edelberg, part owner of the store.
Meanwhile, key witnesses of the midnight holdup have been questioned again. Expected to be called upon for information and identification when the couple are brought east are Alton B. Anderson, manager of the theatre adjoining the fur store, Ben Anjima, assistant manager, Mrs, Edward Brown, who witnessed part of the theft from her apartment across the street from the store, and others.
The robbery was staged before scores of theatre goers at midnight October 15 by two men and two women. While one man remained in the robber car, another was posted as a lookout and the two women carried fur coats and capes valued at $5,000 from the store into the car.
At the time of Bei's arrest, the get-away car was also seized by police.
Sources:
- Gallos, Philip L., Cure Cottages of Saranac Lake, Historic Saranac Lake, 1985, p. 82. ISBN 0-9615159-0-2