Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-05-14 | Page 2 | Watchman Held up with His Own Gun

I WATCHMAN HELD UP WITH HIS OWN OVIN GUN Robber R Employs Stratagem to tG I Get Weapon and clOd Money Moneys i s From Raymond i iI Frank Raymond R nd night watchman at attile I tile flin Commercial club in Exchange place pl lc for tor the James A 4 Stewart Construction m company compa ny was held up with his own revolver at 1240 this morning and robbed ofa of ofa t ta a gold watch valued at 90 and a d 50 in currency Raymond says that a laborer for formerly formerly formerly merly employed by the Stewart Con Construction Construction company came Into the th con construction cons constructiOn s n office o fi e where Raymond was eating his liis lunch The seemed to be In Ip an tn amiable frame at ot mind and soon entered into rambling con conversation conversation that finally drifted to fire firearms firearms arms We Ve got to talking about revolvers says Raymond Ramond and in a manner which did not evoke suspicion the tha fellow asked what kind of ot a revolver re olver I 1 car carried carrIed ried rEed I 1 drew the weapon from fr my pocket t and laid it down on a table The rhe man picked it up UIl cocked it and then pointing it in my face com corn commanded commanded me mc to throw up my hands handsHe handsHe handsHe He went about it like an expert and made d me tue turn t my face to the wall wallas wallas as ashe he ho dashed clashed out of the door with my gun gold watch atch and money If It I ain am amnot am amnot not mistaken he was accompanied by bya a negro neo who stood just outside o the theoffice theoffice office o ce and occasionally looked in through the window He Be disappeared holdup hold p rushed rum dout out of ot the door When the t e police pollee investigated the case this morning Raymond who has prided himself on being a gun man wasso enraged over the easy manner in which he had haf been held up and rubb that he sobbed like a 11 child childr gnashed his bin teeth and chewed at his hin finger nails naUs