The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-08-14
BOLD HOLD UPS
uoteI de Grubb and Crescent Cafe
Robbed by Armed Men

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tho Hotel de Grubb and the night cook
ot the Crescent restaurant were held
IN at the point of revolvers by two
masked men, cash registers rifled of
tber contents and the cook relieved
q, a watch. At the hotel $3.50 were
secured, and at the restaurant SAB
we're taken from the register and a
gold watch taken from the person of
the cook. The hold ups first raided
the office of the hotel, and from there
Al once proceeded to the Crescent
cafe. about half block to the south.
consuming only Few minutes on
both jobs.
E. N. Run is the night clerk at the
Hotel de Grubb. At about $3.50 Mon
day morning two men, the regulation
short and tall man, hastily entered the
front door into the lobby and rushed
no to the desk, behind which Run was
ensconced. They wore handkerchiefs
over the upper part Of their faces and
carried guns in their hands. Run was
ordered to elevate his hands, and he
lost no time complying with the in
yitation. One of the robbers tried to
open the cash register, but failing to
work the combination ordered Run to
open it. This he did. The thief ex-
tracted the contents and the two men
departed in great haste.
From the Hotel de Grubb the rob-
hers evidently Immediately made their
way through the alley to the rear of
the Crescent cafe. At that hour Ches-
ter Teel, the cook on the night shift,
was cleaning cutlery at bench with
in few feet of the back door. With
out having heard sound of approach
ing footsteps Teel was startled by the
sharp command Throw up your
hands," He whirled around to be con-
fronted by two revolvers close under
his nose in the hands of masked men,
who had entered stealthly thorugh the
back door, which was standing open.
Teel was ordered to entor small pan
try and place his hands against the
wall above his head. In that position
he was held by one of the robbers,
who searched his victim, taking an
open face gold watch from his fob
pocket. The short ribbon chain had
charm attached to it, and the rib
bon was fastened to belt. The thief
tore the watch loose, taking the charm
with the watch. While Teel was be-
ing despoiled the other robber went
to the front of the restaurant and
tapped the cash register for some $43,
mostly in silver. The marauders then
disappeared out of the back door. The
work was performed neatly and ex-
pediously, showing that the mode OF
procedure had been planned in ad-
vance. While nervous under the ex-
perience of being shaken down at the
point of pistol Mr.. Teel did not en-
tirely lose his wits and was able to
describe his assailants, especially the
one that gave him particular attention.
He says the robber was very nervous
and that he had small squirting blue
eyes. He was So confident that he
could recognize the man that in his
testimony before the preliminary ex-
animation he pointed to Considine as
tne person who held him up.
After the disappearance of the rob-
Ders Teel ran out to the sidewalk in
front of the restaurant, and met Run,
VINO was very excited and told of his
having been robbed at the hotel. Run
went at once to the home of Marshal
case, in the south part Of town, to
report the robbery, and Teel secured
horse and went to the home of Dep
uty Sheriff Carol, who lives near the
Nng railroad trestle, east of town.
naturally suspicion pointed to men,
Ders Of the tent show that had been
giving performances in town for three
Gays, and was to move on by rail
Monday morning. The marshal routed
out ]. R. LeStrange, one Of the mana
gers OF the company, from his room
IN the Hotel de Grubb. LeStrange
promptly gave the officer every as
slstance in his power in ferriting out
members of the company, and exam
ming them, but no clue was obtained.
AT daylight the footprints of two
men were discovered leading from the
rear of the restaurant out through
the alley towards the railroad tracks.
inese footprints were perfectly plain,
dnd were conspicuous from the fact
tnat one of the men wore rubber soled
tennis shoes. The tracks led to the
raiiroad and were there lost In the
cinders. On the presumption that the
ROBBERS had followed the railroad,
crossed the Okanogan river and gone
up or down the valley, the officers Sc
cured an auto and made careful
search of the roads on the east side
vi the river running south and north,
put no sign of the tracks could be
round. Returning to town Marshal
oase' accompanied by Teel and Run,
olowed the railroad to a point just
east of the stockyards, where they
iound the identical tracks first seen at
tne restaurant leaving the railroad and
gong north. No attempt had been
iuade to conceal these footprints. The
inen walked in the dusty road, and the
s'ue was as plain az q blazed trail.