The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-24
GROCER IS ROBBED
BY NOISY HOLDUP
Man and Wife See $500 in
Profits Disappear From
Their Till.
TRACKS VANISH IN SNOW
POLICE ARE NOTIFIED, BUT GAIN
NO CLUE TO THE RoBBER.

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o A lone highWayman rushed into %
50 the grocery of A. AdlesOn, 40 East g
90 Eighth South street, at 9:15 o'clock g
90 last night. and alter making the .
s." proprietor and his wife throw up 9.
O. their hands robbed the till of a lit .
e, tie over $500. He emphasized his .
o. command by intermittent shots .
O. from a 36-Caliber revolver. The @
g. proprietor was too excited to take &.
@ note of the description of the hold o
g up, and the only clue in the hands &.
@ OF the police is q 3S-caliber bullet g
g that had fastened itself in the 9
g floor g
The grocery was without a cash regi-
ter or safe, the money being kept in an
ordinary cash drawer. Adleson says
that he had taken slight interest in reg
ularly bringing his money to the bank,
little expecting that his money would
ever attract the attention of a nigh
wayman. The large amount of money
in the till represented about two weeks
collections 1T had been the practice of
the proprietor al the close Of business
to place it under his pillow, which is
also the hiding place OF big army re-
VolveT.
Mrs. Adleson had come to the grocery
last night TO assist her husband in
winding up the days business. Numer-
Gus orders TO be delivered in the morn
ing promised to keep the grocer busy
during the greater portion of the early
night. Mrs. AdlesOn busted herself
with entering the days accounts in
books.
Mr. and Mrs. Adleson were thus en-
gagged when they were suddenly sur
prlsed by a command of Hands up
Before them stood medium-sized man.
whose face was masked in a white
handkerchief and who held a revolver
pointed at the head of AdlesOn. The
latter had been too busy with his bun
dies to fully grasp the situation. Neither
Mr.. nor Mrs AdlesOn Obeyed the order.
Then in a shrill voice the highway
man repeated his command, stimuli
taneously discharging his revolver into
the ceiliHg
The hands came up with a flash. The
holdup cried steady, and when he had
the situation thoroughly within his
grasp he quietly ordered that the money
be turned over TO him.
AdlesOn failed to understand how he
could turn over the money that was In
the cash drawer while his hands were
pointing skyWmd, and ne again hesl-
tated.
His Revolver Talked.
Mechanically the highwayman repeat
ed his command. emphasizing it with a
shot that tore into the floor. Then he
assisted AdlesOn i'm taking the money
out of the cash drawer, filling his peck
cts.
Three more shots were fired into the
ceiling of the grocery as the highway
man was about To take his leave, serv-
ing as warnings that there would be Sc
rious consequences if any attempts
We're made to Illustrate his plans.
Adlesou informed the police that he
had been robbed. He also said that
there had been a shooting subsequent to
the holdup. but could not say whether
any one had been wounded or not.
Police Lieutenant r.. L. Shannon took
personal charge of a posse of patrolmen
who were rushed to the scene Of the
holdup i'm the police patrol. Tracks Of
the h0ldup could be seen i'm the snow. .
but they soon ran into other tracks and /
were blotted cut before he had gone
half a block. A detachment of patrol I
men i'm plain clothes Were left i'm the I
and We're ordered to re- /
main there at least until midnight.