The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-06
Cash Box Containing $500 Paid in
by People Who Paid For the
High Cost of
Eating.
GOOD MORNINGS WORK
Lone, Unmasked Bandit, Armed With
Two RevoIvers Gets Away
With The
Money.

CHICAGO, Feb. 6-One of the
boldest daylight robberies Chicago
has ever known was carried out sue
cessfully at 9:2o O'Clock yesterday
morning, when a lone bandit, unmask-
ed, armed with two revolvers, enter
ed Rector's restaurant, 126 Monroe
street, and covering John P. Adams,
the cashier, and Roy Saisline. the head
waiter. with his weapons. compelled
Saisline to open the cash drawer,
money box and safe, and deliver the
contents. $3,494.
The bandit then slowly backed out
of the restaurant, walked up the
steps and made his escape, passing
policeman less than fifty feet from
the entrance of the place he robbed.
The robbery was one of the most
carefully planned the police have
been called upon to solve in years.
4 While Adams was standing, hands up
| lifted and face against the wall, and
1 Eaisline was passing over the money,
/ more than thirty men and women,
/ employees of the establishment, were
eating and performing their duties, IN
different rooms of the restaurant, in
1 ignorance of the daring robbery being
4 enacted.
One woman, Mrs Nellie Jones, head
scrub woman, was the only witness OF
the hold-up besides the cashier and
z head waiter. she rushed to the ldtch-
4 en- and attempted to give an alarm,
c..;.~ ~ r,
! herself understood.
That the robbery was executed or
at least planned by former employe
j is the belief of Manager A. Frank.
Everything was timed to the second.
Not a false move was made. The rob-
Der knew as much about the manner
in which the cash was kept and where
it was placed as did Cashier Adams.
"Saisline and ! were sitting at a
table Just to the right of the cigar
stand, eating our breakfast at 500
said Adams.
mo one was in the main room be
sides ourselves. with the exception oi
Mrs. Jones. In the kitchen and
storerooms were probably thirty OF
more others. While we We're eating
and talking man entered. Thinking
he was customer, Saisline left the
table to show him a seat
'sNo, / don't want anything 10 eat,
said the stranger. I merely wantec
to ask if you had here an assistant
Chef named Reynolds
"Knowing that we had no such maj
7 arose and stepped to the cigar case
where the two were standing, think
ing that might be able to assist the
man in his search AS soon as Sais
line and stood side by side, ou
came two wicked looking revolvers
from his overcoat pockets, and instant
ly both of us were covered.
...Up with those hands, you chumps
no fooling, he said, in low voice. w
both did as we were told, thinking
, that every second some one woult
come in from the kitchen or store
room. He forced me to walk over t
the wall by the door, and stand will
j appraised hands, facing the wall.
"He ordered Saisline behind th
8 counter and told him to pass out th
cash in the cash drawer. He did this
"Imagine our surprise when tn
n bandit said in the same low command
;. irg tone: Now, open the little close
0 underneath ard take the money ou
$ Of the tin box This was done NOV
open the safe he commanded Com
S across
y .The whole transaction had take
e no more than a minute, and sS,494 ha
J f,asn passed over the counter. Thi
a he quickly scooped into his overcoa
d pockets and, telling us not to folio
r o. make q sound, he backed out of tn
i place.