Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-01-26
OPERA BAR
HELD UP
LAST NIGHT
Bold Robbers Get Away With
More Than Three Hundred
Dollars.
LINED Up the Three Men In IN. Club
Rooms While Roulette Table Is Swept
and Bank Roll Taken From
Drawn.

A daring hold-up occurred at the
Opera Bar club rooms last night,
about $340 being secured. At l1:10 a
medium sized man. wearing a closely
buttoned overcoat, his face hidden by
brown mask, walked In through the
saloon door, and passing through into
the club. met Jim Harrison. the bar
tender, coming back into the saloon.
He ordered him to hold up his hands.
As Harrison stared into the barre. OF
revolver, he promptly compiled.
Tom McCpnville was sitting bv the
roulette table. and Fred Kenney. the
porter, was reading a newspaper close
by. These men werc not prompt In
holding up their hands. but when the
desperate cooked his revolver. they
FASTENED to obey. The robbcr then
lined the trio up with faces to the
wall. while he quickly swept about
$3.50 dollars in silver into his capa-
ci0us pockets. or possibly into bag.
He opened the drawer of the roulette
table and took therefrom about $50
In bills. Keeping the. men covered,
the rDbber then hasteked out by the
club room door and running around
the corner sped up Sixth street. Nc
Conville and Kenney each grabbed a
gun and hastened out In time to see
another man running down Douglas
avenue. Kenney fired four shots al.
ter him, but failed tos III me fusitiye.
A few minutes later he fired four
more times hoping to attract the at
tention Of an officer.
It is known that the man who did
the hold-up act In the game room ran
up Sixth street, because o. G. Schaef.
fer, who was just about locking up
for the night, heard his steps and re-
marked to G. E. Perry. who was there,
that someone must be running to ring
the firebell. Mr.. Perry went out and
on the sidewalk, just in front Of the
side door. picked up the mask the
man had discarded. The man who
threw away the mask must have turn
ed into the alley by the Y. M. G. A.
building, as Earl Hoke was on the
opposite side Of the street nesr the
Baptist church. when he heard the
firing but saw no one.
A search was made for off GERS.
Day Marshal Ward, who had gone
home, was called from his bed and
reached the saloon about IL and Night
Marshal Cole came some time later
The men who were in the saloon
were unable to give an accurate des-
criptim Of the clothing worn by the
robber they say. and the chances
seem excellent that the criminal will
escape detection.
This Is . pity, the more so as the
hOld.ups have become quite common
Of late The night before last Miss
May Young was stopped on Sixth
street by 4 rough looking man, who
demanded money. few nights before
that young lady was viciously at
tackled in the neighborhood Of Lin
coin park by one Of the most vicious
types Of criminals, and last Saturday
night an attempt was made by two
men to hold up Jas. 8. Duncan. There
have also been petty thieveries. It is
certain that an exceedingly bad gang
has been operating here.
The officers have been doing the
right thing in rounding up every sus.
picio,is character and demanding that
every man who Is out Of employment
give satisfactory account Of him.
self, move on or go to Jail. This
work should be kept up until the
force has rid the city Of every hobo.
tough and loafer.