The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-10
ROBBER IS ROBBED.
Old Adage About Honor Among
Thieves Is Exploded.

Chicago, Feb. 10.-Even a thief is
not safe in Chicago, is the plea Charles
Willard made to the police, when he
confessed he had held UP Rector's
restaurant last Sunday morning and
secured $4,000. Wizards joy in his
possessions was short lived, he said,
for as he was leaving the cafe doors he
was greeted by three men, who, with
a revolver pressed against his side,
escorted him to an alley and robbed
him of the proceeds of the holdup.
Willard, according to his confession,
was one of three conSpirators who
planned and executed the Rector hold
up. He in turn was the victim of
conspiracy by a friend to whom he
eonfided the plan for robbing the safe.
The story, incredible as it first SEEM
ed, to the police, was corroborated,
$500 recovered and William Lotus,
saloonkeeper. has been arrested,
charged with being an accessory to the
robbery. and with having received
stolen property.
The original robbery took place in
Rector's restaurant Sunday morning,
when lone bandit entered as John
Adams the cashier, and Ray Saisline,
assistant head waiter, were near the
cashiers desk. Pointing revolver at
the men, he proceeded in true holdup
fashion to procure $4,000 in receipts
from the cashiers desk.
The police searched vainly for the
lone desperate for many hours, when
a note from an unidentified woman
gave them a clue as to the nature of
the "holdup.''
Saisline was arrested and confessed
he had arranged with Willard to COM
NIT the robbery. He notified Willard
as to the most opportune time to APP
pear. Adams was not a party to the
conspiracy.
Saisline named Harry Anderson.
companion as one of the conspirators
and after the arrest of Willard both
denounced him for his failure to meet
them later and divide the spoil.
Willard, after his arrest, asserted
he in turn had been "heldup" few
minutes after leaving the restaurant.
The police refused to believe him but
later developments proved he told the
truth.
Lotus is a saloonkeeper, in whose
saloon Willard was in the habit of
spending much of his time. When the
plot to rob the restaurant developed
Willard confided in his friend Lotus,
and sought his aid to the extent of
borrowing two revolyerS.
When I came out of the restaurant
with the money in my pocket said
Willard, three men were waiting for
me. we want you, Charley said one,
and he pressed the end of a revolver
against me- I thought they were po-
licemen and 1 was under arrest. They
joked me about getting away so easy.
With a revolver pressed into my coat,
we walked back of a policeman to an
alley back of the Hamilton club, half
a block away from the cafe.
when we reached the alley, the
men turned in, forcing me to go with
them. One of them covered my mouth
Will, his hand, one pressed the revol-
yer against my ribs and the third took
the money away from me. They kept
On joking about how easy it was.
Pretty soft, Charley said the one
with the revolver, and then the three
walked away I could not make any
complaint about it. but had to hurry
away to keep from being arrested my
self"
Willard says his first thought after
the men left him was to report the
theft to the police but that inclination
was overcome by the realization that
he would be greeted with unexpected
warmth at the police station.