Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-10-07 | Page 3 | Paymaster Robbed of Heavy Payroll

mm ROBBED OF WPJfflOLL Booty, Amounting to $16,-000, $16,-000, Recovered; Artillerymen Artillery-men Capture Suspect. STONJXGTON. Conn., Oct 0-Skirmishing 0-Skirmishing through tho woods in the northern purt of this tow,, tonight, United States coast artillorymcn captured cap-tured a man who. is believed lo be one 01 tho two masked highwaymen who carhor in the day held up Carl A IS1! Paymaster of tho American ,.( !,. ook from him a satchel .ontaining I0000 in coin and bills, shortly ;ia0r tho robberv the booty was recovered from a hole under tosaed int 1,10 ba" hnd bcc" Tho 200 artillorymcn wont out in extended ex-tended order through a comet ory in winch it was thought tho bandits wero Hiding. The men had escaped, how-over, how-over, and tho skirmish lino swopt onward on-ward through a wild section of tho town. Tho artillerymen wore followed by groups of townspeople and farmers most of tho latter armod with guns while lator H00 emplo3-ecs of tho velvet company woro released from work to join in tho man hunt. , At. dusk tho soldiers arrested a civilian wearing a soldier 's overcoat. Tho maa answered in height nnd build the description given bv Mr. Koelb of one of his nssailants. Ho is about 20 3'cars of ago. Tho men apparently planned tho holdup with care. Thev had not anticipated antici-pated that soldiers from Port II. G. Wright at Fishers island, who have been hero for a fortnight's field work, would bo in tho vicinity. Tho holn into which the sntchol was thrown had been prepared. A part of the metal work at the handle of tho bag was notched, and it was discovered by a pearching party.