El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-01-11
TWO HELD FOR
ANGELUS ROBBERY
Night Clerk Price and Z. r.
Warnock Charged With
Looting Hotel Safe.

Informations charging J. w. Price, who
until arrested. was night clerk at the
Angelus hotel, with embezzlement, and
7. r. Warnock with theft over $50, as a
result of the robbery of the hotel office
and safe on the morning of Jan. s.
were filed with justice h 2. Stacy,
Tuesday afternoon at 5 o'clock. Price
has lived in FL Paso for two years. His
former home was at Rockdale, Milan
county, Tex. Warnock states he is a
travelling mechanician.
As q result of the arrest of the men,
$3.50 and a diamond ring worth SIS were
recovered. The total value of the money
end Jewels taken from the office safe and
cash drawer Is given at $952.3l.
Price was arrested Monday morning
and taken to the police station, where
he was searched. In his right shoe was
found an Angelus hotel grip check, No.
Is The grip was brought to the police
station and found TO contain 5000.
Price had $50 in his pockets. In the grip
were several pieces of laundry bearing
Warnoek's name and he was located at
the New York rooms on Broadway,
where he fras arrested Tuesday morning.
Prices confession was made late Mon
dav and Warnock made his statement
Tuesday. Detectives would not talk
about the case. Assistant chief Ten
Eyck was evidently kept in ignorance
of developments, for he told Herald
man who inquired about the case Tues
dav afternoon that he CTen Eyck)
didn't know anything about 1t. Mon
day il was said that two men were
being investigated but that no arrests
had been made.
Monday night Prices name was reg
istered on the police blotter and
charge of suspicious character" writ
ten after it. Tuesday morning, follow
ing Prices arrest, Warnock was ar
rested and a suspicious character
charge also preferred.
Prices Statement.
According to Prices statement, he /
and Warnock agreed to rob the hotel l
office. and after baking several times, |
they did the work the morning of jan /
uarv 3. Price, who was in charge OF j
the hotel as night clerk, sent the ele- 1
vator boy, Noise Barracuda, upstairs to 1
see about some lights which were burn |
ing. This was about $3.50 a. m While /
the boy was upstairs, Price carried the I
deposit boxes from the safe in suit
case TO Warnock, who had concealed
himself behind the double doors lead
ing from the hotel lobby TO the foyer OF
the Crawford theater.
In the meantime, however, Warnock
had effected an entrance into the
Crawford theater and took the deposit
boxes into the Women's cloak room,
= hich is directly on the right of the
entrance. There the men opened the
boxes with pair Of shears, after
which Warnock took the boxes 10 a
crossing room under the Crawford
heater stage, where an automatic re-
oliver belonging to DR.. Richmond, and
two stick pins belonging TO G. T.
KnobIauch of the hotel were also left.
Returning to the hotel office at
o'clock after opening the boxes, it is
said that Price sent the elevator boy
10 the basement to clean some cuspi-
aors, and securing the hotel office re-
volver placed it on the ice box al the
side Of the elevator. Warnock having
returned by this time. took the re-
vc liver, according to Prices story, and
held up" Price, forcing him into
tie basement, where he also covered
he elevator boy with the revolver.
After a few seconds. while the upstairs
make believe robber was supposed
e be making away with the deposit
Jokes, Warnock withdrew from the
!
oliver on the ice box. where he had
ound it, and took the money taken
rom the deposit boxes, which had been
eft just outside the office door.
Price and the elevator boy, after
laying in the basement a few minutes,
by the basement door, and
rice entering the hotel office at the
outh door, secured the revolver and
ired a shot, then telephoned to the
olice. When they arrived, Price as
listed in the search for the supposed h
wo robbers, who he said held him up. T
rice remained on duty until 8 o'clock p
hat morning. after which he ate +
and went to his room. h
Warnock, according to his story, d
Ook the money secured from the safe
eposit boxes, in a grip to his room i
4 Broadway. There he says he took 2
l75, and later sent the grip to a house T
n Magoffin avenue, where it is said +,
rice would get it. Later. Warnock 2