The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-28
.HOLD-UP MEN GET
BIG HAUL SUNDAY
Clyde M. Richardson Robbed Of Near.
Iy Seven Hundred Dollars on
Main street Late
Last Night.
HIT ON BACK OF HEAD
Robbers Leave Their Victim, Lying on
the Sidewalk Unconscious Az
ter Lifting Big Sum
From Him.
HIT ON BACK OF HEAD

loT tue IfdnlllOu WOODEN Mills COAl-
pany, with store at 327 Main street,
was held up and robbed OF nearly
seven hundred dollars, at Seventh and
Main streets, about two o'clock this
morning. His assalants came up from
behind and slugged him with blunt
instrument of some kind, cutting a
severe cash in the back OF his head
and rendering him unconscious from
the effects of the blow.
According to the statement given
The Gate City this morning by Mr..
Richardson, he had been calling on a
young lady in West Keokuk during the
evening and when he came back to
the city, went to the Moose club and
stayed there for some time. He left
there in company with Warren Smith
the custodian of the Moose club and
went to the Mission Inn on
Third street for lunch. About ten
minutes after two o'clock he left the
restaurant and started to his home at
|l712 johnson street.
He had reached the corner OF Sew
Eenth and Main streets, under the
wooden awning in front of Rollins
book store when he was attacked. An
awful blow on the back of the head
stretched him on the pavement, uncon-
scious. There he laid, he says, for
about forty-five minutes before he re-
covered sufficiently to get to his feet
and make his way to the police station
and report the affair.
During the time he laid on the side
walk, Mr.. Richardson says there was
no officer in sight, although two are
supposed to patrol that district con-
tinually. He says that he did not
hear or see anything Of his assailants
and therefore cannot give the police
any description of them.
When he got to the police station,
he told Night Captain Shepherd about
the affair and the officer telephoned to
the officers on the beat, who upon ex-
animation of the place, discovered Mr..
Richardson's keys on the sidewalk.
Nothing could be found of the weapon
used by the holdup men in their at
tack upon the merchant.
The cut on Mr.. Richardson's head
is about two inches long and bled
profusely. He also complains of a
couple OF bruised places on the side
OF his head.
According to Chief of Police John
Nj. Kenney, the police department are
giving the affair complete investf-
CATION but as yet have formed no
theory as to the guilty parties. Sew
eral things in the affair have mys-
FERROUS look and sensational arrest
may be made before long.
The exact amount given out by Mr..
Richardson as taken by the holdup
men was s5o5. All this was In bills.
He had several dollars In change In
his pocket but the robbers did not
take 1t.
Late this afternoon Chief of Police
Kenney called the newspaper men in
TO his office and gave them the follow
ing statement: Il have investigated
the case thoroughly and can find no
evidence that there has been hold
up. If there was one. Richardson
must have committed it himself The
statements OF Richardson are SO CON
Trajectory that have had some
trouble in untangling them. but SO far
as can discover, there is nothing Il.
his story of being held up. That is
all care to say about the case now"
Mr.. and Mrs. D. A. Gossette of Chi
cago are visitors in the city today.