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Show jfOGS SLUG OGDENITE; ROBUCKET OFFICE I SilNBOUNO I BANDIT Pi I Robbers Then Proceed to Loot Cash Drawer in Ticket THIEVES GAIN ONLY SMALL SUM FOR WORK Three Other Robberies Keep Poiice Busy. Suspects Under Arrest Semi-conscious from a blow with the butt end of a revolver, and with hands firmly tied together. William Oram, about CO years old. nlghtwatch-man nlghtwatch-man at the lnterurban station, stag- N gered from the basement of tho build-Ing, build-Ing, where ho had been attacked, and N spread the alarm of the first of a series of four robberies that occurred In Ogden last night. The lnterurban robbery' occurred between twelve and one o'clock last night. Three men were In the gang. Oram says- They entered tho-.bulld-ing and went to the basement. Here they unscrewed all the lights from their sockets but one. Oram entered lo ascertain why the lights were out. and was struck a severe blow on the I They searched him. procuring his I keys. The robbers then proceeded to ransack the ticket office of the sta- tion. About Z in change was ob- tainod. The robbers then proceeded i to the express office, but did not ran- sack this portion of the building. Tho ' newsstand also escaped. HE ID BAD Mi COT j I Oram was taken to the police sta- Hon and given first aid treatment I His head was badly cut as tho result. of the blow Which had boon given ; him. He then returned to his pogt land worked out the remainder of his jt shift. Shortly before 3 o clock this morn- pjpH ' Ing. the patrolman whose beat in- eludes Washington ave nue and Twon- ty-thlrd street, reported thut the ' Consolidated Machine company had ' been entered. Police discovered that j men had been in tho office of tho J building and had opened tho safe. ! They apparently had been disturbed, ' however, and everything was intact. I. E. Duffln. manager of tbe store. ' was summoned Ho reported that j everything was nil right. The officets Mr. Duffln departed from tho store shortly after 3 o'clock. U BBERS RETURN Early this morning, when tho store was opened up for business, St was discovered that the sufe again had been opened and searched. Tho rob- bers had made away with $34.8." in silver which was hidden in the vault. They were unusually careful, it Is Jm J . claimed, and left no finger prints or other clues. The vault had boen care- fully; searched, and tho records that Rere removed from the pigeon holes Tf carefully plied on the floor THIEVES LI AVE ADVICE Across the top of two piles of rec- nrds was written tho following mes- "You need a night watchman be-cause be-cause we can watoh the cops too." Tho message had been scrawled in lio h-high letters, as though tho writer had wunted to be sure that the mes-sage mes-sage was not overlooked. The third report of a robbery came from J. A Morlarty, S03 .Twenty-fifth street. The loot in this lnstanco In-eluded In-eluded suits, hats, shirts, a mackln-aw, mackln-aw, a lady's coat witn a fur collar, a georgette waist, an ivory comblna-lion comblna-lion set and other articles. John O'Brien. 2 8 years old. 115 pounds la weight, and about C feet 6 Inches In height, is suspected of hav-ing hav-ing perpetrated this robbery, In com-' com-' pany with another man of about the same description. O'Brien and the I other man were befriended by Mr. Morlarty because they claimed to be broke and with no place to go LEAVE OLD CLOTHES The men exchanged their eld garments gar-ments for th-j clothing In the Morlart;' homo and departed, The fourth robbery' reported was from the tailor shop of J. W Purcell, i 2481 Washington avenue. Thieves entered the shop at about H 3:10 o'clock, as near as can be de-termined, de-termined, and made away with four suits of clothes and two overcoats, the total valued at 1300 In all of tbe robberies, no finjesr print nor clue was found, excepting in tho Morlarty case. g SUSPECTS NABBED Following the reports of the rob- jffll beries, the police department started an extensive search for suspicious characters. As the result of the drag-nei drag-nei which was spread ovor tho city, f tho following were arrested and uiu being held for investigation: Will-lam Will-lam Summa, Alton Dye. William f' Lumpkin, Horace Chlndale, FY d Koch and Edward Wllloughby. Those men were taken Into custody between 1 o'clock and 6 o'clock this morning. Telegraphic descriptions of the ar tides stolen from Purcell and the Morlarty home have been sent out from the police station. Reports from the police indicate that there is a pos-tdbllliy pos-tdbllliy that the Consolidated Machine company robbery, tho Purcell Tailor robbery and tho lnterurban station robbery may have been perpetrated by tho same gang. This morning night watchman LN Oram surveyed the men who are being bH held under Investigation. He could not Identify any of them as the mm who struck and tied him. ' Hill |
