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Show Masked Robbers Hold Up Saloon Waited for Placo to Open, and Then Entered the Albany and Stole S23. Threo masked men with formidable guns entorod the Albany saloon nt 12:15 yesterday morning and succecdnd In holding up tho place to tho tunc of $23 and a. gold watch worth JI0. I O. B. Cooper, tho bartender, had Just oponcd up and was counting tho money In tho till. Jim Wolah was standing at tho end- of tho bar when tho threo men entered. en-tered. Ho tried to make a break for tho door leading to the hotel which Is over the saloon, whon the smallest of tho three robbers got tho drop on him. He was then pulled Into tho center of tho room and searched. Only JO belonging to tho pro prietor, James Hcgncy, was taken. The. rest belonged to Mr. Cooper, as well as the gold watch and chain. Tho other man only loflt some small change. The robbers did not attempt to bo rough, although at one tlmo both tho victims feared they would suffor violence. Tho men differed In height, tho tallest being about six feet. All wero masked. During tho time tlieso woro Inside. It seems that a fourth was watching outside, as one of tho nlghtwatchmcn for the Rio Grando railroad declared that about that time ho saw a man standing outsldo tho saloon. Some time previous ho had seen four men sitting together In tho vicinity of tho depot. From the fact that tho guns carried were, Bmall, it would seem that tho men wero novices at tho game. "But you bet they didn't look vory darned small at tho time." says Jim Welsh. They tried to get a ring from Mr. Cooper's finger, but could not get It off, , As soon as tho hold-ups had gone tho bartender woko up the proprietor, who fired his gun to attract the attention of the nlghtwatchman for the railroad. Soon after the patrol wagon camo down from tho police statldn. and Scrgt. Eddlngton mado Investigations, but no trace of tho robbers could be found. |
