Show GAMBLER ROBBED OF NIGHTS NIGHT'S GAINS Players in Americus Colored Club Take From Burns and Hide It Joe Burns proprietor o of ot the tho Americus Airmen Ameri CU cus Colored club at 13 Commercial stroet was robbed yesterday morning morning- before daylight alI of oC He Ito was countInG countIng counting count- count Ing his mone money when suddenly the tho lights were turned out and under the tho cover of at darkness several men sprang on him and succeeded in getting the money Frank Atkins 4 Percy Wall Wall- street Joe an and B. B Bevelly all colored are under arrest an and are being hel held as the tho suspected robbers Burns Durns Is colored an and operates the club under a a. charter The club room Is supplied with a 0 bar and also with tables Although the police have havo not arrested the place as a gambling joint It is known that gambling has been GOIng goIng going go go- Ing on there with a rake off of e to the proprietor The men inca who were arrested were In inthe tho the place most of tho the night It Is claimed Burns In preparation to go I home counted his mone money When the tho themen themen thomen men sprang on him In the darkness he could not beat them off and all he lie could coul do 10 was to cr cry for or help The robbers escaped however but are believed to have returned When hen the they did the barten bartender bartender bar bar- ten tender er shut a door and the men were unable to get to the street a second time The police pollee were notified an and when Sergeant Hempel and officers ers opened tho the door and amid turned on the II lights Cht s. s themen tho the thomen thomen men who are now under arrest orrest were In Inthe Inthe inthe the room They had pr practically no mone money and It ft Is believed tho the was hidden on the first break The alleged C robbers are implicated only by circum circum- stances When the dash was made on Burns all was dark darl an and ho cannot connot l identify the tho men further than to say they were in the place |