The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-22
SAYS He LOST HIS NUGGETS.
ALASKA MINER ACCUSES SECOND
AVENUE SALOON MAN.
Proprietor of the Germania Cafe,
Assisted by = Japanese Porter,
Took $500 In Gold From Him.

L. w. apd c. II. Gray. brothers. both
partially intoxicated. stopped Officer p.
r. Sprengle on Second avenue shortly be-
fore 5 o'>iock. and complained that one
Of them. l. ". Gray, had been assaulted
In the Germania cafe on the corner or
Seneca street and Second avenue and
robbed OF 500 in gold nuggeta The
victim of the robbery charged William
Bloch. the proprietor Of the saloon. with
the robbery, and claimed that he was
assisted by Japanese porter. Sprengie
where they reiterated their story.
The two brothers claim that L. W.
Gray had an engagement with Wo-
man at the Germania for O'Clock. Both
Gray says he asked Bloch. the proprietor
of the place, If there was lady wait
ing In the box for anyone He received
Bloch told him that he would show him
where the woman was.
He followed Bloch, he says and was in
turn followed by the Japanese porter. Just
as they came inside the pair OF curtains
that separate the bar room from the hall
leading TO the boxes Gray claims Bloch
and the Jap assaulted him and took his
bag OF nuggets from him. They then
hustled him on. Of the saloon.
In the meantime C. II. Gray. the other
brother. had become involved in an alter
cation on the street In front Of the sa-
ICON. He claims he was sluggec by crowd
OF men whom he did not know. Together
the two brothers wendell their way down
inc street untli tfey round Oulcer Spren-
gle. 20 whom they told their alleged griev
ances.
At police headquarters l.. W. Gray posi-
lively refused TO dfvulge the name of the
woman whom he was to meet. He had met
her, he said. at the Brooklyn house the
night previous. He says he is satisfied
she had no connection with the robbery.
The fact that Gray had the large amount
Of nugget. is vouched for by L. Jaffe who
keeps a saloon on Second avenue south.
He says that shortly before the two broth
ers went up 10 the Germania they were
In his place. and that he saw the gold.
William Bloch. the proprietor OF the sa-
loon. denies positively that any robbery
took place In his house.
THAT man who says he was robbed"
wanted 10 go into the boxes. He was
drunk, and l wouldn't let him 60 I'm. So
he went out again. and that was the last
! saw OF him until he came back later
with an officer and said he was robbed.
About the fight on the street I know
nothing. ! knew somebody had a fight
out there, but ! didn't see IT, nor hear
who was mixed up In IT,"
The police say they believe the story
that Gray was robbed, but Sergt Peer,
time, expressed an emphatic disbelief in
the story that Bloch committed the rob-
berry.
My opinion Is" said Sergt Peer. that
some one who knew this man had a con-
siderable quantity Of nuggets on him
steered him UP To the saloon and robbed
him. l believe the woman was In the
play"
Sergt Peer refused TO order Bloch's ar
rest, SAYING he could not do so uron the
unsupported statement Of a drunken man.
The two GRAY brothers are Alaska mi
rers. They also own mining property at
Index. this county. They live at Fiji
teenth avenue and Charles street