Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-09-30
SALOON ROBBED
By SIX ARMED MEN.
Determined Thugs Enter the Cor
ianton and Make off With $50
And Two Watches,
CLUBBED the PROPRIETOR
Men We're Well Masked and Evidently
Old Hands at the Business-Sus.
poets Arrested.

Last night for the second time with
In a few months the Corlanton saloon
at 1853 west South Temple street was
robbed by masked men, The trick was
turned by six heavily armed robbers,
and they went about II In a manner
which indicated that they were old
hands at the business, and were not
the kind Of men to be trihed with. Five
of the fellows entered the saloon while
the sixth kept watch outside. Eight
men, including the proprietor, d. c.
Frlese, and an assistant, We're In the
place when the robbers entered. Two
OF them came In at the baCkdoor and
three from the front. They were all
masked and carried big guns Those
In the place We're ordered TO hold up
their hands and line up against the
wall on pain OF Instant death. Frese
attempted to resist when one Of the
robbers, a large, powerful fellow, who
seemed to be the leader struck Fresa
a blow on the head knocking him UNI
conscious to the floor. The thug then
kicked his victim and ordered him 10
line up with the others and keep still.
one of the men in the place turned
slightly to see what was going on, and
he, too, was dubbed over the head. The
robbers then turned their attention TO
the cash register from which 1t is said
they took SIPS The eight men were
then searched, the robbers securing
about s25 in cash, and couple of
watches, After ordering everybody 10
keep their hands up and not TO move,
the fellows backed out OF the door and
made their escape
Friese lost no time In breaking into a
butcher shop next door and sending In
an alarm TO the police. The patrol
wagon well filled with buecoats rush.
ed to the scene, but, Of course the rob.
bers had fled.
POLICE HAD A TIP.
The peculiar part of the whole affaiy
is that the police had been given a
Tip that something would be doing"
and Officers Brown and Leaker visited
the saloon about half an hour before
the robbery. and said they would return
later. When they came back the trek
had been turned and the robbers gone
When the men ilrst entered the sa-
loon and ordered hands up. Friese and
his customers thought II was a Joke,
but they changed their minds when
the robbers began 10 use their guns as
clubs. Friese received several severe
cuts and bruises on the head and face.
SUSPECTS ARRESTED.
shortly after the robbery, Officer OIL
sen arrested two men on suspicion or
being two of the holdups. one Of the
men gave his name as Nick Morgan.
and the other as James Gordon. Tho
latter was seen by FrIese and positive
~ identified as one OF the robbers. The
proprietor OF the saloon could not iden,
tlfy the other man but he is being held
by the police pending an investigation
as TO his whereabouts last night
The men were not armed when AT
rested and only 1880 was found on
them. Gordon had handkerchief I'm
his pocket and Friese said It was the
kind the robbers used as masks.
Good descriptions of the robbers
were obtained by the police and all last
night and today the officers have been
rounding up suspicious characters.