The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-05-27
HOLD-UP IN POCATfLLO.
Bold RObber Entered Hotel and Re.
qaested Clerk to Tap Cash Register.

| Another holdup was pulled off in
Pocatello about Z O'Clock yesterday
morning, the robber changing his base
! of operations to the Crow hotel. II
was a rather nervy undertaking at
| that hour Of the day, but he got away
before the clerks had an opportunity
to recover from the chill that comes
from looking into blue steel that early
In the morning.
Andrew Atkinson, night clerk, had
just gone off shift, and had sat down.
| while Albert Kerlin, the day clerk
was In the act of checking up the re-
ceipts.
While he was engaged in this opera
ton short individual stepped up to
the counter with the remark:
Got any Bull Durham"
Kerlin handed him a sack, and the
man apparently laid a nickel down on
the counter, and had his hand over
1t. AS Kerlin looked up at him he
gazed squarely into the muzzle OF a
gun that looked part of the armament
OF battleship.
Better give me what money you
have in that TILL" said the holdup,
don't get nervous, for I'm not going
to hurt you, but just give me the
money"
Kerlin fastened to do what was re-
quested of him, handing out hand
full of silver and a bill or two, in all
about fifteen or twenty dollars. He
was asked If he had anything on him
self, and the same question was put
to the night clerk, who was just
awakening to the realization, that the
place was being stuck up. Both the
boys responded with alacrity that
they were clean. The robber pushed
back about three dollars worth of
small change with the remark, 81
don't want that chicken feed" And
admonishing the two to remain quiet,
he backed out and beat it.
Kerlin describes the individual as a
short-built man, rather thin, unshav-
en-, and that he had the aspect Of a
hop-fiend, but he was too flushed to
take more detailed notice of the in
truder. The man was unmasked and
perfectly cool in the operation, and
upon going out said:
After l leave tell the police that
Bowers was here-they know who
am"
1t is stated that at an early hour in
the day an individual answering the
same description stuck up baggage
man, but did not get anything.
Tho holdup was later captured at
Blackfoot by the sheriff of Bingham
county, who picked him up along the
road. He was brought to Pocatello
this morning and placed in charge of
Sheriff Lowry.
1t appears that after the fellow
pulled off the job, he went to the
Bannock livery stable, hired rig and
driver and started to Blackfoot, pay
ing $12 for the outfit. He secured
$17.65 through his haul
To Sheriff Lowry he gave his name
as Jim Bradley, and made full con-
fession, and stated that he had pulled
off good many such affairs, mention
ing two or three instances not known
to the officers, including the robbing
Of private residence here, and the
holding up of several individuals. He
said that he came from Salt Lake last
Saturday, and has been at the busi-
ness for some time. When arrested he
had .38-calibre Iver-Johnson revolt
yer, which was cooked in his pocket.
The man Is a hop-head, and claims
that he recently took on the drug
habit. The matter of holding up a
few individuals or hotels seemed an
entirely Indifferent proposition, and
he did 1t whenever he felt like it. He
will be given hearing later.-Pocate-
10 Tribune.