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Show COOK IS ARRESTED ' 115 ALLEGED BANDIT One Man Suspected of Robbing- Bingham Saloon, Partially Par-tially Identified. Lcroy Adams, a cook employed at tho Bingham Cafe, is held at tho county jail suspected of being one of tho two bandits, who, armed and masked, held up the Yampa saloon In Bingham lant night, forced six men to get down on their knees, struck two of them to tho floor because they were slow in obeying tho order, and eiicaped with $200 taken from tho .safo, the cash register and the pocketa of the victims. Adams woh arrested near Wclby yesterday yester-day afternoon by Deputy Sheriff Wltbeck. He was hurrying towards Wei by and appeared ap-peared to be highly agitated. A large amount of money was found in Ills pockets pock-ets and blood stains were upon his clothing. cloth-ing. The ofllccrs believe these camo from ono of the horses which the highwaymen stole from in front of the saloon and killed after they had ridden it to exhaustion In their flight. The suspect was taken to Bingham where James Taylor, tho bartender at tho Yampa saloon posltivoly identified him as ono of tho bandits. lie was brought to the county Jail last night after ho had been arraigned at Bingham under a charge of embezzling ?2S from the Bingham Cafe, where ho was employed ns a cook until yestorday morning. Adams is said to have tapped his employer's cash register yesterday morning. His bond was llxed at $1000. Joe Long, a partner of Adams, hearing he was wanted by tho police, gavo himself him-self up last night. He was roleascd after af-ter tho victims of the robbery had failed to Identify him. Taylor and Percy Cornforth were the only occupants of the saloon when the banditB entered. One of thorn covered Cornforth and the bartondcr whllo the other stepped into an adjoining room and corralcd four Italians who were playing pool, marching them into tho saloon. They were ordered to got down on their knees. Two of the Italians wore felled to tho floor. Taylor edged hla way behind tho bar towards his revolver. Ho was about to lay his hand on It when one of tho robbers rob-bers vaulted tho bar. hit him across the back of the neck with a butt of a revolver re-volver and forced him into a corner. While one robber searched Cornforth and the kneeling Italians tho other forced Taylor to open the safe, prodding him in the neck with his gun as he worked. Having secured their loot the robbers backed out of tho saloon still covering tho six men with gnna, stole two horses that had been left in front of the saloon and galloped off. |
