Arizona republican., 1912-09-14
Frank L, Gegax Assaulted by Footpads at an Early Hour Last Night at Fifth Avenue and Adams Street
LEFT TO DIE BY
 THE ROADSIDE
He Was Fortunately Dis covered in a Few Minutes Given Attention and Will Be All Right Today; Lost About $500

Frank L. Gegax held up about 9 o'clock last evening at Fifth avenue and Adams, chloroformed. robbed of about $500 and a note for between one and two hundred dollars. cast by the roadside to await his fate. picked up by unknown parties and taken to the office of Dr. MOnicaI, thence to the police station and later to his home at the Nofzinger place a mile and half north of the fair grounds, will have lot to think about when he gets back to a thoroughly lucid condition this morning. Probably in the course of his reasoning he will recall that yesterday was Friday. the 18th. and that he forgot to keep his fingers crossed. Also he will re- member that just twenty four hours before, he was undergoing a mimic court martial by his fellow members of company \. c. A. and was as sessed a pretty stiff fine. only about twenty feet from where last nights episode took place; moreover, it will occur to him that his summer vaca- ton was cut pretty short. having ended just before it began; and final ly. he will realize that $500 was too
 
 about his person. in view of the fact that he is a quasi newspaper man. Anyhow, whatever he thinks of Fri day. the 18th. he will hereafter keep d sharp lookout ever time he gets in the vicinity of Fifth avenue and Adams streets.
 Frank GegaX is a highly respected young man of exemplary habits, an
 
 a hard worker in the employ of a local creamery company and inci- dentalIy a rural correspondent of The Republican, living as mentioned above at the NOfzinger home. He had a little business to attend to in Los Angeles about this season of the year and has been saving his earn ings for the purpose of a weeks visit to the coast on business and pleasure combined Last night about o'clock he called at The Republican office. dressed for his vacation and carrying a travelling bag, and an nounced that he would leave for the coast this morning. From this office he went to the Hotel Adams and checked his grip intending later to return and secure a room for the
 
 of a barber and went into a shop near the Savoy theater, the only one he could find open, but says he dis played no money there save a little silver
 About 10 o'clock he was stretched out on a cot in the police station, slowly reviving from the influence of some drug. presumably chlOrOform,
 
 on The Republican staff to whom he| recited what was not already known of his earlier movements and added the following: After leaving the barber shop he started directly west on Adams street, for the residence of Dr .owetnam on Nineteenth avenue. He owed the doctor a financial obl gation he desired to settle before leaving the city and also had one or two other bills to pay down town. He was still too ill from the effects of the drug last night to state exactly how much money he had on his per son but said that he had figured that when he had paid all these debts he would have about S200 left hor his trip, from which fact he estimates that he had approximately $500 in DllS III d pOckeI DDOh III HIS iilSAuc coat pocket together with a note for about S15O made out in the name of another man not now in the city. Just as he passed into the shadow in front of the armory at the corner of Fifth avenue and Adams, two men suddenly confronted him. saying something in Spanish he did not un- derstand. One of them grabbed him by the throat in an effort to choke him, presumably to prevent an out cry and at the same instant cloth was placed across his face over his nose He cannot tell whether one man did all the work or whether the other helped him, for it was only an instant until he was dead to the world The next thing he remembers is being stretched on d cot in the police station, with nothing in his pockets but the Hotel Adams check for his travelling bag.
 From others it is learned that somebody whose name was not se- cured, found Gegax lying beside the ditch in front of the armory, placed him in milk wagon or some similar conveyance and took him to the of- flee of Dr Grant Monicai where he was sufficiently restored to be again moved by the patrol wagon to the po- lice station By 1O:3O he was able to sit up and talk coherently and
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