Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-12-07 | Page 10 | Robbers at Moxum Buffet Get Diamonds Valued at $375

ROBBERS AT r BUffET GET DIAMONDS VALUED AT WorK Interrupted by Bus Driver Who Fires Shots to Give Alarm Four Kour occupants of ot tho the buffet Inthe in inthe the Fourth South street side of ot the Mox Mox- um urn hotel State to and Fourth Fourth South streets were held up and robbed at 1150 oclo o'clock k last Iut night the robbers escaping with 12 In cash an and a diamond stud stull valued at atThe j The robbery was particularly daring darin an and though the police were notified at once and began besan b gan a systematic search of or ortho the tho neighborhood within a few minutes they have thus titus far been unable to arrest ar- ar rest refIt the robbers robber Four men participated In the robbery Ou On of the robbers stood at the doorway of the buffet to prevent interference from the street one ope masked man stood at the pa partition s separating the cigar cg-ar counter from the saloon and covered ered the tha occupants occupant of ot the room 1 while bile two other men also aHo closely masked robbed the tho men in the barroom A diamond stud valued at was ta taken ta ta- ken from II W. W Johnson the tho bartender Dennis F. F manager of the Orpheum hotel lost 12 In cash ash while Amos Moreton a barber harber formerly ly a a. member of the tim cit city fire department and Fred red Munsey a clerk clerk- lost nothing Tames James Rae Baa a wealthy stockman of ot Ida had a roll of currency amounting to lo 1000 1005 in lila Ills pockets but hut I seeing the masked men nien approaching through the tile street door of the bar bai es escaped escaped es- es into the hotel and spread the alarm One of the robbers att attempted to open the cash register but pulled the wrong lever locking the register There was 50 in the register As An the robber was as trying to open the register four shots were fired In the street The robbers evidently believed that the lookout was in iii trouble or 01 was is-as giving an alarm and left the buffet at once The rhe shots were fired by John Quigley bus driver for fol the hotel who had been told by Rae Kae that the house was as being robbed