The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-23
ON TWENTY THIRD ST.
MASKED NAN INV4DES OFFICE
AND TIES THREE MEN.
Takes 500 OF Restaurant COmpany's re
ceIpts on the Fourth Floor Of a Building
Gets the Drop on the Men with Gun
Surprised mat His Haul Was Small.

A painting man bleeding at the wrists ran
into the Tenderloin police station shortly
before midnight last night and told Sergt.
Bailey that he and his two assistants had
been held up, bound and robbed OF more
han 800 by a lone robber In their Offices
on the fourth floor at 81 East T~wenty-third
street. The man said that his name was
Eugene T.. st. German and that he was
manager for the Baltimore Lunch establish
ments in the city. The place where he had
been robbed, he said, was in the rooms OF
the general Offices of the company, above
n OF the company's lunch places.
Sergt. Bailey detailed Detectives Beau
frere, White, Coleman and Campazzi to
go back with st. GERMAN. The detectives
went to the Office and found Harold l.. West,
who La an inspector for the lunch company.
and Elmo J. Scott, head clerk In the estab-
lishment directly beneath the offices, and
got the details OF the holdup.
st. German, West and Scott had come to
the offices early in the evening to make out
the weekly accounts and count the receipts
of the day from the lunch place below.
st. German was seated at a table in the
centre of the room, directly in front OF the
door. Scott and West we're seated behind
desks to the left of st. German and against
the rear wall Of the room.
st. German said that West had a little
more than 500. mostly in silver, in front
of him; that Scott was wording over ac-
counts, aud that ne himself had no money
about him, but was figuring on accounts.
Some time between $50 and $40 O'Clock
the door opposite st. Germans desk was
opened quickly and a man entered the
room with a revolver levelled in front of
him. TIN intruder was over six feet tall,
heavily built, and Of dark complexion.
He wore "A paddock o~vercoat, gloves and
a dark felt hat. Over his face he had a
long cloth mask, with eyeholes and a bib
falling below the mouth.
Throw up your bands" shouted the
man, pointing his revolver al -, German,
The latter thought that some friend was
try ing a practical joke on him and he de-
Iayed putting his hands up. West and
Scott obeyed instantly.
Il mean YOU" said the intruder, closing
the door IND putting the muzzle of the
weapon close to the managers face. Then
ST. Germain raised his hands.
The robber put his revolver down on the
edge of the table where it could be caught
up in a second. Then he reached in his
pocket and took some heavy cord. He
ordered st. German 10 put his hands be-
hind his back. The stranger tied his wrists.
The visitor evidently was not well pro-
vided with cord, for he next went down
into one Of his pockets and brought out a
roll Of soiled handkerchiefs. Knotting two
of these together, he stopped and tied st.
Germans feet. Then he twisted another
into a knot, thrust il into his mou and tied
it about his neck.
All the time West and Scott were sitting
in their chairs, with their hands elevated
and their eyes on the revolver. When the
man stopped to tie st. Germans feet he
nut his revolver on the floor in "A handy
place. The robber then ordered the two
other employees to go and stand with
their backs to the rear wall. Then he had
st. German hop and shuttle to the rear
wall az best he could. Next he carefully
knotted more handkerchiefs and bound
and gagged Scott and West.
All the time tina the robber was tying
ND HIS lnItb NASNAAhb uANA ~ 6NNbHNAuCbNAy
ransacking the drawers of the desks for
money he kept up a running fire Of COM
ment.
Now gents" he announced, when he had
all the three men trlssed up and standing
against the wall, Il want all the money
that you've got that belongs TO h firm
YOU work for. l don't want your own
money, but I'm going through this place
and take all l find that don't belong to you.
A friend of mine on the Bowery told me
that there ought to be 81 600 here on a Satur-
day night"
Again when the intruder was searching
the drawers and pigeonholes for money,
he commented OF the meagreness OF his
haul and the character Of a company which
did not nave more than 500 in its Offices
on a Saturday night.
"Why, I've been a pal OF Pat Groves
out West" said he, and Tve beer in on
some real big jobs in my time: but this
is certainly a cheap skate trick for mes
Still, Christmas is near and h kids need
the money
Then he swept all the silver lying on
Vests table into his coat pockets. In
doing so a SO and 81 note fiuttered to the
floor. Then he opened the drawers OF the
desk and found some pay envelopes with
money in them. He carefully tore of the
ends OF the envelopes, extracted the money
and dropped the envelopes back in the
drawer. He spent fully a half hour In
going through all the pigeon holes and
drawers in the desks. He did his lnvesti-
eating calmly and in n hurry.
When the robber finished he warned the
three bound men not to move for half an
hour. He said that he had a pal in the
washroom just outside the door and another
at the foo Of the stairs and that II the
three tried TO get away from their bonds
they would be shot by his confederates.
After the robber had disappeared the
three men worked for several minutes
before they got free Of their bonds. Then
st. German notified the police.
The detectives could find only one clue
TO the identity of the robber; that was a
passengers receipt for baggage sent by
the West Shore Railroad on December 20.
The number OF the check was 2s5, 7s9. The
three men told the detectives that the robber
had drOppa1 thia CbaCk from hia DOokpt