“Charge Highway Robbery,” Montreal Gazette. January 8, 1917. Page 04.
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Soldier Made Hard Fight Against Arrest
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Upon a charge of highway robbery, Joseph Payne, a soldier, was arrested Friday morning by Detectives Tierney and Belanger. The complainant in the case is James Munro, of 223 Centre street, Point St. Charles. He was assaulted by a soldier just after leaving a saloon in Point St. Charles on Thursday night and, after being beaten, was robbed of a watch and chain and $4 in money. He gave the detectives a good description of his assailant and they recovered the watch and chain early Friday morning. They found Payne some time later an he fought like a wild cat, and it was only after a strenuous battle that he was subdued and taken to the Grand Trunk street station. He was listed there and was taken to headquarters, where he was locked to to appear for arraignment this morning. Munro is said to have identified the prisoner as the man who assaulted him. From the exertion of the fight, combined with being soaked to the skin Detective Tierney contracted a severe attack of la grippe, which has kept him in his bed since Friday night.