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Show FI MEN ROB GHINEStSTORE i Masked and Armed Bandits Obtain $1400; Force Employee Em-ployee to Open Safe. Five bandits, masked and armed, entered en-tered Ou Luuk & Company's store at 09 Richards street at 6:30 o'clock last night and after beating tho bookkeeper, Lee Door, 9 years of age, over1 tho head with a pistol forced him to open the safe, which they robbed of $1400 and a watch valued at $15. Bcforo leaving the robbers locked tho bookkeeper book-keeper and three other Chinese in the rear room. They then jumped iut tiie automobile in waiting at tho front door and escaped. The imprisoned Chinese managed to escape from the room after several minutes' min-utes' confinement and notified tlie police. po-lice. Patrolmen Patrick Kiolly, M..M. Riley and Plain-clothes-men D. H. Clayton Clay-ton and T. V. Milner answered the call. Entering tho store as if they knew exactly how they were to get tho money the robbers ordered the four Chinese Chi-nese to line up and place their hands ou tho counter. The leader of tlm five robbers then motioned to one of the other thieves to command Door to oj?n tho safe. When lXtor refused to coin-ply coin-ply with the command the thief ordered another of the Chinese to open the safe. When this man refused to comply with the robber's request because of ignorance igno-rance of the - combination, the bandit sprang towards Door and felled him with his pistol. AS'lieu the wounded man struggled to his feet bleeding from a gash on the top of his head his assailant roughly pushed him toward the safe at the rear of the store. With no alternative, Door told the police, lie opened the safe, leaving the thief free; to ransack the interior. Hurriedly scooping up the ; pile of bills the thief stuffed them into I his docket and returned to his com-' com-' rades who were guarding the other Chi-i Chi-i lit' so. : Several hundred dollars worth of checks were returned to Door. I The plunder consisted of one $50(1 i roll of paper money, one if 00 roll and several $100 rolls, i Cheeks also found by the robber in the safe wen1 returned to Door before the robbers left tiie place. Door was ttiken to the Emergency hospital where the wound ou his head was given treatment. The store at. 59 Richards street is one of many such esi ublishnients in western cities where Chinese merchandise merchan-dise is sold by the Ou Lund & Company. Com-pany. The proprietor of the place is Lee 8am, whose brother, Lee Hong, is head of the company, with offices at Portland, Ore. |