Show VICTIM Of ROBBERY LOCKED UP ClerK CleriC of New Windsor Says He Was Gagged Safe Is Found UnlocKed Dick Hart who tho police sl say sy i is a ameal ameal meal ticket prize fighter fight r and anti who has served since sinco April Jj as ns night clerk for forthe forthe or orthe the New Windsor hotel hote 2 5 South Main street reported to tho the police that he was over o overcome orne hound bound and a cd by two bold and nd daring robbers at 5 u o'clock this mornin morning The safe which was Wa Cocked locked Will was opened d after Hart was carried to tho the basement of the hotel Tho The amount taken front from the tho safe is is estimated at anything from front to 1500 of which about 20 O was tho the property property prop prop- property erty of tho hotel bote and the remainder beon belonged ed to guests e ts sting staying in tho the house houe and to the motor club chib for which the tho lobby obby of the tho hotel serves as an en n. n trance HArt Halt was questioned closely for an au hour bour by br Detective Captain Detective Ed Janney and aDd R Richard chard L. L Shannon Sha at police headquarters to to- day and insisted that the story ho told or was tho the true version version of the robbery of the hotel safe Hart was locked in jail at the tho conclusion of this examination n and will be bo held pending further inv Sti investigation tiou of the ca case c. c No ch chBr charge e h has s been heen fil filed d against him on the police docket Hart Harl says that he ho was on dut duty at 5 o'clock this tills morning and that no one else elees was In hi th the he lobby o of the hotel so far tar faras taras as 38 ho he knew He was seated at the dt desk lesk sk adjoining th the counter countr on which the tho hot hotel hotH 1 register Is kept Hart says that ho he h heard ard ardno no one enter tho the lobby and saw sa no ono one He was 8 suddenly blinded h by a a. b bathrobe which 1 was as thrown n over his head from behind Ho says AAS says he lie was Voas as dealt deall a Il vicious blow on the h head md and struggling mad madly I and shouting for or help ho lie was overcome o St Straggle In In Hotel Lobby Still tI fighting for 01 liberty he was carri carried car car- ri ned ried d to to the basement of ot the hotel after which the tho robbers opened the safe sae by bythe bythe bythe the combination and abstracted the a ables hies Hart sa says saya that he shouted loudl loudly for help for tor at lea least t n ft minutes In the lobb lobby while the battle continued but regardless re of the fact that tho the lobby extends to the roof loof past two to floors and there were tre guests In tho the majority of ot the rooms fronting on t the c open light well no ope was as aroused After ho wa was warr taken to the basement th the robbers removed tho the bathrobe and tied him Q with 1 the wire cut from froman an office tel telephone phone on n his desk deck Leaving him in the Cl cellar II 81 the robbers returned to th the o office cc and opened the safe b by workIng working work work- Ing the combination and then left the tho hotel Pound Found in Pai Fainting ti g Condition I H Hart rt says sas that after flUet he was gagged and anel bound in th his groans awakened 1 the guests who had not nol heard him shouting too Cot help at the time the tho robbers threw w the bathrobe over his head and n E Ed McCormick and Tom whom who were on the Main street beat ran to the hotel and descended to the basement they liberated Hart Hart was laSh unable to give gi a conn connected con eon n ct d tory story When hen Patrolman McCormick McCormick mick questioned Hart the clerk would taint faint When Patrolman McCormick c ceased ased questioning Hart ho would ouid revive says Hays McCormick but as aa soon as another question was as put to him ho he would taint faint again But little could be learned from the clerk who declared that he had not had hadan hadan hadan an opportunity to see the robbers After fter falling failing to get information that would be of value Jn In running down the robbers rob rob- hers bers rB the tho policemen permitted him to SOto go SO goto goto to bed Did Not Know Kov Combination Baled d. ait-d. proprietor of the Windsor Windsor Wind Wind- sor Eor hotel refused to make any statement to the newspapers regarding the case further than tc i that Hart was vas emlo employed em em- played lo ed as night clerk on April 15 15 and was all alj right He said that Hart old aid not know the J combination to tho the safe and that nor Hart knew how ho much mone money was ns in the safe sate or what had been lost Baird told the police that the money l lost t. t from the so l Included Jud d al about ut 20 b belonging belonging be be- longing to hotel and some somo mo money I left rt there for sale keeping b by the Motor club which occupies s quarters at the rear feu of r the Ip tn the hotel and by guests gueste o of the house who ho had left their valuable In th tN for or safe Bate keeping Railway Ticket Found To ro one i who was bewailing the loss of his valuables l including railroad th he comfort was given en 11 that his v was as safe sate having ln been dropped dropped the floor o of the office b by the robb robber r The sheriffs sheriff's office was as notified of the tho case and D Deputy t Sheriff John Corless Corles was Bent to to an n Investigation A It newspaper man man was aas waiting to see Proprietor Proprietor Pro Pro- r when chen hen the deputy sheriff en entered Excuse nm me nie Baird said paid to th the newspaper newspaperman man man I want to talk to the sheriff li half a a ml minute uto before I make mako a a. statement for publication Fifty s' s later Baird said sale that ho lie had nothing to fo Hay and that he did not care care for tOT an any ani free advertising for tho the hotel or for himself He said that he was T to have ha a conference with Sheriff Sharp later In 1 th tho day and might be able ablo to make a. a statement some time this afternoon n Says Hart Was WM Nervous O. 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C Nelson a lawyer who has a. a room at th the Windsor or said that Hart had beep about the TM hotel for tor some ome time for or a month or more Proprietor Baird corroborated him but said that Hart had been employed only since April 15 Instated Insisted that the sate safe was as locked locke und and that Hart liart did not know the combination Hu Hi said aitI that he did not nol know how the safe te could be he opened without knowledge of the combination The safe was not damaged Attorney Nelson Kelson volunteered the statement that Hart In a conversation with him some time a ago o. o had said Mid that ho he felt nervous ous to bo he In the office alone at al night without a n. gun JOUn Nelson said that he told Hart Hafl that it would be bo foolIsh foolish fool fool- ish to have a gun n and try to us Ul use it on ona ona ona a robber for the robber would be bo heel heeled d and would kill him If he put uJ UI up a ft fight ht Knew Where Bathrobe Wa Was When Patrolman McCormick asked Hart where the bathrobe was with which h he had been en blinded and arid gagged ed when the the robbers first attacked him Hart did not know at first but hut in a minute remembered red that it was in a recess of the office behind the desk where the rob robbers rs had dropp dropped d It lt as he was being Ing taken down the cellar When he ie was asked askel how he knew It was as there Hart fainted tainted again Hart sal Ml sai he did not see ee the men and could give no description of them Hart is known to the police pollee His mother lives in Chicago She wrote to the police department a short hort time ago aJo asking them to locate her lost son whom hom homshe she believed ocd to bo be here herp Hart was found and his mother sent ent him mone money with which to purchase transportation home HP Ht used the money for other purposes purpose according to the police Says Bays Sh Shannon The case caso looks like a a. to tome tome me me- said Lieutenant Richard I L Shannon Shannon Shan Shan- non non after rec receiving reports from policemen po- po Icemen and detectives detailed on tho the case The fact that Hart shouted loudly for h help l while In th the lobby and awakened no on ont one and then arou aroused eod the house hoUm with his groans roans when he ha was gagged ed In the basement looks suspicious stiR sus vicious to me It looks look like a 3 raw fake take D Detective e Captain Rile Riley M. M and Detective e Ed Janney questioned Hyrum Byrum Hy- Hy rum Baird proprietor of the tl hotel and anda a number of other persons connected with the house after which thc they awakened Hart and took him to the police s station for tor further questioning Hart bore no marks ml of ot the fight he said he had with the robbers and there thero were no evidences of or the heavy blow on the head which he said Raid was as dealt him by one o of the robbers Neither does dofos he show the marks o of the tel telephone wires with which he was bound hound hand and foot when he ho was carried carried car car- 1 ried ned to the basement I |