Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1910-12-28
ROB BOX OFFICE
Of A THOUSAND
MAKE GOOD HAUL AT
THE GRAND.
AND Then They co
Complaccntly-Sho Was
Was In Progress.

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Stewart Of the Grand Theatre. and
Manager Ed Curry Of The Viola Allen
Company, We're seated I'm the box Of
flee, II thief stepped up to the cash
window, deftly opened the Slide and
in twinkllng Of an eye reached his
hand through the opening aud sec
ond later was disappeared with .
$1,000 in currency in his hand, The .
robber and his confederate ran to- |
wards the Frisco station down the |
alley by the Grand theatre. Ills |
neeing footsteps could stil be heard .
as the police station heard of the
robbery.
Messrs. Stewart and Curry relate |
the same story Of the robbery. The /
first act was well on and quiet pre-
vailed in the lobby OF the Grnad. |
About fifteen minutes after 8 O'Clock, |
Mr.. Stewart noticed a young man |
come into the lobby and so out again. |
Soon afterwards he came in with Il
companion no older than he, stepped
close to the window and held up
dollar. Mr.. Stewart. naturally sup
posing that the two young men
wished to go up stairs. pointed toward
the gallery entrance of the opera
house. The next thing was the rob
! berry.
There was a good house to hear
Viola Allen In The white Sister"
hence there was a large amount of
cash in the box Office. Manager Stew
art as soon as the audience had set
tied itself began to assort this cur
Tency, and when he had arranged
about $1,000 of It in neat pile. he
placed II far back in the corner by
j the ticket window. Some silver,
probably to the extent OF one hundred
dollars, was placed upon some paper
currency on another shelf. out OF the
reach Of anybody standing in the
lobby. TO show how easily the 81 900
was taken, Mr.. Stewart opened the
window and It was proved any ordi-
nary sized boy could reach his right
arm through the window and run
his fingers over every part OF the
corner which contained the cash.
There was n hfty-dollar- on
the bottom OF the big bundle of cur
rency OF cash" said Mr.. Stewart,
"and that in itself was an III omen
thought about It when / put II
there. All theatre men are II little bit
superstltous, especially about such
matters as that, but we knew that we
were going to need plenty Of money
/, and wanted some smaller and larger
denominations of bills to take care of
the influx of cash at the ticket win
dow.
you can say for me-" said Mr..
Stewart In the best of spirits" that
the robbery will not affect the busi-
ness Of The Grand We can get hold
of plenty Of money and are not at
all embarrassed. or course no man
likes to have his cash box carried
away, but there Is no use in crying
+, over spilled milk"
; And Mr.. Stewart went on counting
; out what money the thieves kindly
left 1t looked mighty big to the
poor news probe but It was by no
+, means the equal in size OF the pack
age that the thieves stole.
As soon as the alarm was given
that the Office of the Grand had been
robbed, several persons gave chase
down the alley but they were unable
TO catch the robbers who disappeared
In the darkness OF First street in the
vicinity of the Alcorn. Men were seen
, in the glare Of the arch lamps walk
ing from the streets over the Frisco
tracks but none OF them could be
; identified as Nne of the robbers. The
, report that the two young men had
a taken Midland Valley train proved
, to be pure speculation. II was re-
4 garded as far more probable that
they had taken the Frisco to Clare
more and n telephone message was
sent TO the chief OF police at Clare
=, more Of the description, asking him
o TO hold the young men should they
be on q train passing through that
town.
! "Of course, no policeman nor no
o large police can stop such robberles
4 as this, or any other robbery" de-
, clared a citizen last night, "but we
can have police force utterly out
Of politics that can keep such people
r out OF the town, Tulsa Is filed with
a too many people who are protected
n by the mer higher up for political
/. purposes. whose sole business Is high
n way robbery and every sort Of crime
=. / will wager you when these criminals
!, are caught as caught they will be, II
/ will be found that they knew Tulsa
r well and spent many a day here. Any
man with a years experience in life
and good horse sense, can point out
LILO or three hundred criminals loaf
< around here all the time The
itraged citizens of this town vii
49, e. on he Justified In resorting to the
pc for highway robbery and tn,
N who are higher up"