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Show WELL FILLED PURSE IS PMIEI Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Ward Lose $1200 in Cash and Checks. TWO YOUNG MEN ARE PLACED UNDER ARREST Money and Checks Not Found, hut Their Actions Suspicious. Sus-picious. . - A carefully planned but quickly on-acted on-acted robbery took placo Sunday night about 7:30 o'clock, when a pockotbook containing $1200, $700 in cash and SoOO in ncgotinblo checks, wjus stolen from ilic boarding houso at 303 South Sov-onth Sov-onth West, stroet, conducted by Mr. and Mrs. E. 3. Ward.. In thirty . minutes after the robbery was discovered and reported to the police two arrests were U,Tho two persons arrested, who without with-out nhv question in the minds ot -he police arc tho ones who turned the clcal. aro Harrv I.aughlin, H years old, ot Illinois, and Harry "Eckert. 2-1 years old. of Ohio.- Tho latter is known to tho police as a card tric.ksr.ur. and suspicion is strongly directed his way. Knew Location of Money. Eckert hod been stopping at tho boarding houso for some time, and was well acquainted with tho fnct that, the pooketbook was kept in a drawor in a tablo in the kitchen. lie had made the statement to Mrs. Ward, it is said, that ho would bo "lifting" tho money soma d a v. Laughlin has been at tho boarding house for several weeks and claims he is working in a local Tailroad repair shop. Mr.". Ward had been to tho drawer shortly before 7:30 o'clock nnd saw the pocke'tbook in its usual place. A few minute3 later she went upstairs and upon coming down again wont to the drawer to see if tho money was safe, and to her surprise found it missing. Laughlin and Eckert were hanging about the placo all day, being in and out of tho kitchen, and the police are of the opinion that ono or both wa.tchcd tho opportunity to slip in and take tho pockotbook. At any event, it was taken in a remarkably sliort spaco of time. Checks Indorsed. Mr. and Mrs. Ward are unable to tell iust who the checks wore received from. 1 but they were all indorsed. As near as they could remember there was ono from .A- D. Rodd for an unknown amount; one from a Mr. Foolev for $116; one from Mr. Ward for $12.50 and ono from Joseph Bronett for $2". The checks were nearly a'l from tho Denver & I?io Grande railroad to the above-named parties and then indorsed and given to the Wards. The two young follows arrested wero run through tho "third dfgree" at police headquarters, but stoutly denied any knowledpo of tho theft. They were unable to tell connected stories, which tonds to further the opinion of tho police that both are implicated in the affair. When searched at the police station sta-tion the missing funds wero not found and thero was uothing found in their clothinc to connect them directly with the affair. The two are booked on the police blot-tor, blot-tor, but ns yet no charge has been put against them. Th .rest was made by Officers Eoiil Johnson and Fred Clough. |
