Arizona republican., 1912-09-02
PICKING
 FOR HOLDUPS
Fruitless Attempt to Rifle Office of Pacific Gas and Electric Go. and Reported Attemptto Snatch a Pock- etbook on Street.

An i'll advised man whose avarice has been inflamed by the oft pub Iished reports of the colossal wealth being piled up by the Pacific Gas and Electric CO. half masked him self, entered the office of that instr tuition at 23O-232 West Washington street last evening about S:3O o'clock, placed the single man in charge on dress parade at the point of gun: went through two empty drawers, got nothing, backed to the door, lodged a flying inkstand hurled at him, and fled up the street toward the Ford hotel.
 The man in charge is William Lynch line man and general office employe who is on duty in the of flee until 10 o'clock every evening, to attend to whatever may come up that requires attention. The front door of course was not locked and the stranger entered without attract ing a great deal of attention at first. About the time Lynch noticed that one of the visitors eyes was covered with a black mask, partially conceal ing his identity, he also noticed that he was presenting a dangerous look ing revolver, which act was accom- panied by the command to throw up his hands as he desired to search the place.
 This request was compiled with and the visitor proceeded to pull open a couple of drawers that were bare of coin. The place being brilliantly lighted and all his acts in plain view of whoever might pass the door he decided to make his search very l'brief one. Finding no encouragement in such drawers and possible cash receptacles as his eyes fell upon he | began backing toward the door. As he approached it he dropped his weapon from it's former deadly aim on Lynch, and turned his back somewhat as he reached the door. | At the same instant Lynch seized an inkstand which was the only likely missile within reach, and sent it af- ter the intruder in the hope that a chance aim might be effective. but l it wasn't.
 The police were summoned as quickly as possible and Officer Brad IIey responded promptly but before he could cover the intervening four blocks on his wheel. the would be
 robber had faded from view The
 description given by Lynch is that the man is an American, or at least
 a white man speaking English and is
 about five feet ten or eleven inches lin height He wore a brown suit and
 a soft black hat. with a small brim and as stated, a black mask over one ieye His weight is guessed at about 155 pounds. While there is no de finite clue to his identity, some ot lthe police believe they see in the de
 scription a man they have noticed before and will know if they evel
 see him again, though they do no
 know his name, or anything else con lcerning him.
 About the time this was going on
 perhaps a little before, some Ont came breathessly into the police sta
 tion and informed the officers tha
 two men had attempted to snatch {
 pocket book from the hand of ;
 woman who was standing near th'
 shooting gallery in front of the Col
 iseum theater; that they were no
 successful and ran away, followed b,
 MT Wells the proprietor of the gal
 Iery, armed with one of his targe
 weapons The police responded t
 the call but could learn nothing re
 specting the incident A reporte asked MT Wells about it and he sai'
 that he knew nothing about it.