The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-04
Bold Robbery of an Ogden
Gambling House.
THREE MEN WITH GUNS
SECURED $500 AND A GOLD
WATCH.
Entered the Senate Cloak Room at
Midnight and Stood the Manager
and DEALER Up Against the Wall
Overlooked a valuable Diamond
Made Their Escape.
Special to The Herala)


/ Ogden. Feb. 4.-The Senate club room
was held up tonight by three masked
men, who got away with about $500 il
mOnsg and a gold watch valued al
about 500, belonging to the manager
The robbery occurred ten or fifteeT
minutes before midnight The playing
Tor the day was over, all Of the players
having left the room. There were only
two men in the room. Arthur or Kid
Bailey and Oscar Collins ('Cully''l. the
tormeC being the manager and the lat
ter one of the dealers. Gully was seat
ed in the daaler's chair at the faro
table and Bailey was near the head
of the stairs leading up from Twenty
NTH street and was engaged in wrap
ping up bottle in a newspaper, when
/ three men came up the stairs, all wear
ing masks. They held their heads
down, 50 that their faces were con-
cealed, until they got to the top of the
stairs, when one of them thrust a pis-
tol at Bailey and told him to throw up
his hands. Bailey told him to put down
his gun and quit his fooling. The fell
low said, Put EN- up; I mean it," he
then put the pistol within an inch of
Bailey's face. Bailey put up his hands
and the fellow told him to walk across
to the other side of the room and turn
his face to the wall. The command
was Obeved.
Gathering in the Coin.
Meanwhile, one of the remaining
two men had advanced to the front
Of the faro table. and forced Gully to
throw up his hands and face the north
wall. The man attending to Gully had
a gun in each hand. The third man
ad fo 4al~ h., Of Hs.
tables and out of the drawers. He
seemed in no hurry about it, and when
he dropped some silver dollars on the
floor he got down on his knees and
picked them up from under the table
A small cabinet stands in the north
east corner Of the room, and he forced
the lock on this, doing considerable
cursing when he found nothing there
but chips. All this while Bailey and
Collins were fiattened against the wall
with their hands in the air and with a
masked man behind each one Of them,
pOking their backs with revolvers.
Bailey was especially anxious to keep
his face to the wall. because he had
$500 diamond on his scarf, and he did
not want it TO sparkle in the eyes Of
the robbers.
After ransaCking the tables and draw
ers the third man turned his attention
to the prisoners and searched them,
getting a few dollars from the pockets
Of Bailey, and taking his gold watch,
unlocking it from his chain The fellow
overlooked the diamond scarf pin, also
twP s. gold pieces, worn by Bales as a
charm. He likewise overlooked one
sack containing 81 and a SO bill
in the drawer of the crap table. He
took a bin book out of Baiiey's pocket,
and finding only q check for Sl00. he
returned It. AsFer securing ali the cash,
The fellow that had the money left, go
ing down the front stairs. The other
two backed away, telling the prisoners
to still face the wall, and they left by
the lack stairs.
Gave the Alarm.
As soon as ne heard the door slam,
kid" Bailey ran to the back of the
building and fired a shot or two as a
mears OF giving the alarm. The police
and gleTin'a force were soon on the
ground, but at an early hour this morn
ing no clue had been discovered Bailey
and Collins gave a very incomplete de-
scripti0D Of the two men, and the third
man they did not see at all, as their
faces were to the wall all the
time that he was operating.
The two fellows who held the
SUGS were described as OF TdlOeF
slender build, wearing dark clothes and
soft hats. They wore dark colored
handkerchiefs to conceal the lower part
of their faces. Manager Bailey said
last night that the haul was very light,
as most of the money had been kept
down stairs, the custom that has pre-
vailed since the hOId-up Of the Silver
club and the Little Queen about a
year ago. The rooms where the hold
up occurred are over the Senate sa-
loon. which is near the corner of Wall
avenue and Twenty-fifth street, and
within q stones throw Of the union de-
pot ". 2. ~Scudder is proprietor Of
the club room, and about eighteen
months ago the night bartender of the
saloon was held up and the cash
drawer Tifed. As near as could be
learned last night the desperadoes Sc
cured about $500 in cash, besides Bal
ley's gold watch. There was also an
L o. e." for S. signed by one Of the
patrons Of the place, who says he
doesn't care if they never come back.