The Nome nugget., 1902-10-15
Two Masked Men Hold
 Up the Lobby Saloon
ON SATUnDhY nIaHT
Five Men in the Saloon at the Time. ..Highwaymen Got Away
 With About S950.


 night at lO:j5 in the Lobby sulton, on Steadman avenue, owned hy Joseph D. , Jourden.
 The bandits, of whom there were two. got away with $050, the bank roll . of the roulette wheel, and cash in the . cash register behind the bar. Five men were in the saloon at the time, and while one of the robbers covered the men with a pair of revOlvers the other footed the bank roll and register. The lower part of the robbers face, were covered by black cloth or hand kelchiefs and they wore seaman's black hats, slickeYs and gum boots. When they had finished the job they di~ap- peared in the darkness of the night.
 The men entered the saloon through a side door CD Stcadman avenue, which leads to the upstairs of tht building, There were but five men in the saloon at the time, F. E. Milroy, ". J. Wilk- inson, w. J. McNurray, Oliver Olsen and James Harris, the night bartender
 w. J. Wilkinson, who runs the roulette game and who IS the heaviest loser McMurray and Olsen wore sitting be- hind the stove playing solo. Milroy swas sitting nearby reading d magazine while Harris was reading at a table opposite the door through which they @entered. One immediately covered Harris with big black revolver. while the other walked closer to the solo game and commanded the players to throw up their hands and saying:
 "Line up at the bar, you ---- and face around as though you were taking a drink"
 None of the players had noticed them coming in and supposed they were two drunken men running bluf, until looking around they saw the muzl!e, of two 45 calber guns staring them in the .face.
 The robbers were cool and deliberate, and, as one of the men in the saloon said, ""good fellows" Nobody threw up his hands, even after seeing the guns: they did not fully realize the seriousness of the situation.
 Mr. Milroy and Mr.Olsen were little .slow in lining up aHd again the spokcs- mau of the robbers informed them what was wanted.
 The other robbcr then walked over to ithe roulette table and opening the drawer, commenced filling the canvas sack with the bank roll, which amount ed to about $500. While in this act, he said, "I'll show you --- --- how to win bank roll.' After completing q table near the door, through which they came, and placed the sack on the table, then walked behind the bar and opened the cash register. He placed his revolver at the side of the till, and stook all but $6, when the cash drawer closed. He walked over to the sack on the table and deposited the coin in the sack, amounting to about $l5D00.
 During this part of the holdup, the spokesman asked if anybody knew the com mbination to the safe, but they made no attempt to open it. The conbina- tion of the safe was open at the time, and had they known it, could have add {, ed about S60o in cash and jewellery to their cleanup.
 The spokesman, who was covering the five men lined up at the bar, told his companion to get out through the same door by which they came, and that he would watch 'these fellows" Just as he was about to go out, and after the rob Der with the money had gone, he said < to the boys lined up at the bar, but not drinking, "lf anybody pokes his head outside of the door inside of , minutes, he is liable to hear some lead scattered around him." With that they both disappeared.
 The first to speak after the robbers disappeared was Wilkinson, asking the rest to have a drink. Mr. Milroy asked ife aybody got good look at the rob .bers and their description, and nobody had. He rushed out of the Kester avenue entrance and reported the mat tier at the federal jail. Two men were heard passing the jail, going up Stead man avenue, just before Mir. Milroy got there, but it is not known whether they were the robbers.
 The robbers were about five feet eight inches tall, medium build, had black hair and dark complexion. Their disguise was made up of black slicker coats, gum boots, sou'westers, and each man wore black handkerchief over his face, covering everything but his eyes. Their guns were A or 45 caliber, black finish and long.
 While lined up at the bar Mir. Me Murray had good opportunity through the mirror behind the bar to size up the robbers, but their disguise was so complete as to give no clue whatever.
 That the men who did the robbing were familiar with the place anu had their plans set for action is evident.
 Mir. Jourden had gone home but a short time and immediately on learning