Show GAMBLING HOUSE SAFE IS LOOTED r Elite Cl ClUb b Has Good Days Daysi i Play and Robbers Steal the Entire Winnings ir The Elite club at aye ave avenue flue nue In the heart of the business district was entered b by thieves some time be between between tween and 10 yesterday morn morning I ing and the safe blown open and robbed ot of about In cash and valuables The I I robbers gained entrance and made their exit by the main entrance fronting on avenue ALter Ater completing the job the robbers 3 made good their escape unnoticed and andr r despite the efforts of the police pollee and force they are still at large and no clue to their Identity has been se secured cured t I The Elte Eite club a gambling hall hail is run 1 hy by Louis Saville and Is located over the i Elite saloon and cafe The latter place i is open day and night and at least a dozen men were wee working there during the tho time the robbery was to sa say nothing of the customers ot of the place who went In and passed out all dur during durIng r ing thE night The work of the robbers appears to ha have e been carried out according to a arranged klan and from t the tact that on the club made Its fin first t substantial winning for some time the he belief Is current that the tho robb was committed by some one who was familiar with the workings of the Entrance through thE main door was gained with the aid of a Jimmy The rhe double lock on till the door was broken The thieves once on the Inside worked Jike vet ans They went to the rear room where on two high stools they a long reaching up to a skylight This was undoubtedly meant for use In iii case cae if f detection before the job jobI I had ben been completed There was no oc occasion casion for pressing this Improvised exit Into however hower Not even those thole In the saloon below heard the slightest thing to awaken their suspicions With the emergency escape way fixed the robbers next turned their attention to the sat safe which stands In a corner The combination was first knocked off At this point the opinions of the officers working on the case differ Some believe live that nitroglycerine was used to finish the job and others think that the turn tum in the safe door were worked tn In Ina H a similar manner to that in the Daynes Davnes jewelry store start robbery in Salt Lake a of months ago The condition of the safe would seem sem to give the greater weight to the latter conclusion If an was used it certainly did not leave lae any satisfactory trace on the safe safet t door Once the safe door was open the rest of the work was easy All the thieves had to do was to scoop up the gold sll sil silver ver er currency and checks valued at 1223 and watches and other jewelry and then walk waIl out At 10 yesterday esterday morning the Janitor went to clean out the place as usual As soon as ho he discovered that the front door had been broken open he tele for Louis Saville the proprietor I who oho hurried Ito the place Illace to find that lie Ie was poorer than when he went to bed the night be before fort On the floor were burned matches IndicatIng that the robbery robber was committed before daylight daUght Ordinarily the place does not close before Q O but yesterday esterday morning in of the fact that the da day had been beena a profitable one Mr Saville decided to dose close an hour earll earlier r to permit the Em to get a little extra rest The fact that the local police force spent Wednesday In entertaining their bluecoats from Salt LakE and were pretty welt well tired out probably was considered by the robbers in formulating th their lr plans plang and selecting a time for the haul The town was waa patrolled as usual how ver but the thieves did their work I In such a manner that detection from the below was next to Impossible It Is iM believed that there were at least i four men In the robbery robber and that while two men worked on the Interior one stool stoolpigeon pigeon was stationed on the street and another at the head of the stairs read ready to sound an alarm In case of discovery discover |