Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-02
Celestial Merchant Causes Arrest of Partner on
 Robbery Charge
ACCUSED MAN IS
 CAUGHT RED HANDED
After Getting Money Back, Victim Says It Was
 Big Mistake

Caught in the act of searching room in the basement of the Gold Bell saloon, which was burglarized last night, and seen to throw away $335 in bills which was reported to have been taken from the room, Linn One was arrested last night for robbing Tom Sing, his part ner.
 At o'clock last night Tom reported to the city officers that two trunks basement of the Gold Bell saloon, in which the Pekin kitchen is located, had been broken open and over $500 taken,
 Deputy Marshal Bob Edwards at once made an investigation and on entering the basement, found Linn in the act of searching the room which had been broken open.
 As the man s actions were suspicious, Edwards ordered him to stop. The -Ce- lestial dashed up stairs 10 the saloon and as he appeared on the upper floor, threw two rolls of bills under one of the tables.
 Deputy Wirt Anderson appeared on the scene at that time and the Celestial was placed under arrest and the bills recovered.
 Wong Dee, another Celestial, attempt ed tO interfere, and when he resisted ar. rest, lively set-to occurred between him and Edwards. He was subdued, however, and taken to jail along with Lim
 Tom Sing followed the officers to jail and when he saw that the missing mon ey had been recovered, he cOntrOyerted his original statement regarding the burglary by saying that the money all belonged to his partner in the Pekin kitchen.
 Linn. when questioned privately, stated that $l00 of the money he threw away belonged to him and that the bal. anee of $235, contained in another roll, belonged to his partner.
 He could not give any explanation of how he secured the money, or how the trunks, which contained the money, had been broken open.
 It is believed by the officers that Tom, seeing that he money had been recover. ed, is merely asserting the Celestial instinct to suppress criminal prosecution by claiming that the money belonged to his partner, who is accused of the crime.
 The burglary shows clearly the work of novice. It also shows that the bur glar was after nothing but money,
 The hasp on the door of the room containing the trunks was broken by means of a heavy steel nail puller With this same implement, the locks of a large American made trunk and small. CT trunk of Chinese make were broken.
 The money was in cigar box in the smaller trunk, it is said. Both trunks were filled with new clothing and shoes, the majority of which had never been used or even unwrapped from the orig inal package. The clothing was un touched.
 The smaller trunk was roped and GOV cred with gunny sack, apparently ready to be shipped. The larger trunk was packed, but not roped.
 In addition to the money which Linn was seen to throw away, a purse con taining $45.70 and paper package con taining $39.S0 was found on his person.
 Owing to the apparent effort of the Chinese to settle the matter out of court, Linn was locked up in a separate cell last night and will not be allowed to with any other Chinese until after his examination, which will probably be held today.