The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-20
MADE GRAB AT
PISTOL AS HE
PASSED BY IT
ACT OF kLos, DANGEROUS AND
SUSPICIOUS CHARACTER AT
POLICE STATION, WAS THOUGHT
TO HAVE BEEN PREMEpITATED.

Shortly after noon yesterday Cher
Of Police Sanders arranged to have
some good pictures made Of 8. Klos,
the white man held there who Is sus-
pected in participating In robberies OF
postofices In different parts OF the
country. To reach the chiefs Office
Clos had to pass the sergeant's desk.
On the latter had been placed re-
volver belonging to Turnkey Simpson,
and as Klos caught sight OF the gun,
he made grab for it, but his act
was noted quickly by the marshal and
the stranger did not succeed in getting
the revolver. When his attempt to
get the gun was thus neatly and sue
cessfully stopped right in the niche OF
time, he laughed and tried to pass the
matter off as joke, saying that Il
was only fooling about It," The mar
| shall had good reasons for believing
that had he have gotten the gun he
would either have used 1t upon him.
self, or would have tried to use it on
others in an attempt to make daring
getaway. He was guarded all the
more closely.
Klos was taken into the office Of the
of him were secured. These pictures
will be used by him to spread all over
the country, and it is believed that by
this method his acts In other cities
and states will be all the more readily
found out. He at first did not appre-
ciate the idea of being photographed,
but later sat for the picture in any po-
sition suggested. 1t is believed that
\ p1io
object of trying to escape at the first
opportunity that is offered.
Postoffice Inspector Fred Roege,
who was in Tallahassee when the two
robbers were killed by young Sauls,
was at the station for the greater part
Of yesterday, looking at the prisoner
during the day and expressing the
opinion that Klos was a third man in
the party who made an attempt to rob
the Tallahassee postofice. In the at
ternoon he carried a grip filled with
descriptions of young criminals want
ed by the government for deeds COM
mitted in various parts of the country
and one circular appeared to have
fitted Klos very nicely. There was
nothing done in the way of making a
case against him in the city court yes
L6TQdy except the IdCL LldL ne was
docketed as a dangerous and sus-
picious character and no bond privi-
lege was given him. His case was
docketed, but marked continued. He
will not be transferred to the county
Jail, but will be held by the city
authorities until some case can be
made against him. 1t is more than
likely that he will be ordered held for
the federal grand jury, as he has ad-
! mitted being both in Jacksonville and
| Tallahassee, in both of which places
safes were blown. One night recently
a safe in the Office of the Cable Piano
Company, Jacksonville, was cracked
The sheriff's force came across a
description yesterday in circular form
which tailed closely with KIos. This
was from the police department of
Boston, and charges that one Bonnie
NuTns had murdered man there late
in December and for his arrest the
sum of 800 would be paid. The Ber-
tillion measurements do not exactly
fit the prisoner held here, nut the cut
of the Boston-wanted criminal closely
resembles the man held in the city
jail.
Every effort will be made to convict
him or to find out where, if any place,
he is wanted, for the city and federal
sleuths are of the firm opinion that he
is badly wanted somewhere.