Show COUPLE ROUSED fROM SLUMBERS TO rAGE Chinese Gardener and Wife Are Threatened by Highwayman Seeking Savings Hidden in Home I When Pis Pistol ol Bluff Fails I Robber Produces s Cleaver Cleav Cleav- I Cleav-I er Finally Locates in In- In Book Boo 1 C Cache a c h e I Threatened with having his head lai laid 1 open with a cleaver J J. J Poy I gardener living with his wife In ina a a I Isman small house at the rear of 1540 1 South Second West Vest street stolidly refused to reveal the hiding place of his money when a bandit entered entered entered en en- his home early Monday mornIng morning morn- morn Ing After a protracted search the robber discovered the hiding place of and escaped with it it I I Poy and bis wife were loused roused from flom their slumbers about 4 30 o'clock Monday morning by noise at the front door of ot their home Before the gardener could get out of ot his bed the door had been smashed open and a tall fiendish looking bandit wearing a gray j skull cap and wielding a long bar bar- bari i black pistol rushed into the room where Poy and his wife had been sleeping I Both were commanded to lie quietly in their bed A second later the robber thrust his pistol in Poy's ribs and demanded to know the hiding place bf bt his money Poy I Iwas was silent The demand was re renewed renewed re- re i to the gardeners gardener's wife and I Imet met with no response the second time I CLEAVER After many minutes he I tried to intimidate the victims Poy I told the police the bandit left lett the room and went to the kitchen He lie returned with a cleaver With the pistol held in his left lefthand lefthand I hand and the cleaver in his right the bandit threatened to chop ch p both Poy's Feys and his wife's heads off if it the cache where they kept their valuables was not revealed immediately immedi immedi- Poy roy told Officers C C. W. W Ros- Ros and W.-M. W. Madsen The gardener and his wife although badly frightened remained silent Finally discouraged in his efforts to force the pair pail to disclose the place where their money was hidden hidden hidden hid hid- undergoing a den and apparently change of mind about carrying out his threats the bandit left their bedroom Poy told the officers takIng taking taking tak tak- ing the cleaver with him and started a systematic search of the house i tables ta tables ta- ta tables Drawers were removed from bles and elsewhere as they came carne under the robbers robber's observation observation- The contents were scattered over th the floor loor Chairs boxes trunks and packing receptacles were turned over o and contents examined All were left upon the floors LOCATES SAVINGS Then in a book the bandit came upon Lipon P ys y's savings savings all in currency carefully smoothed out and nd laid between the leaves of the book Hurriedly the robber gathered gathered gath gath- ered tred up the money and left the house ouse After the robbers robber's departure Poy got ot up and went went to a neighbors neighbor's where he telephoned for the tho police The fhe officers went to the scene but could find no trace of the robber The rhe bandit was described as bein being six feet tall about 30 or 35 years old ld wearing a gray skull cap and rough ough clothing He lIe did not wear weara a L mask I. I |