The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-02
Gets $250 At Bullard Invest ment Company At 6:30
 Last Night
SAME MAN WHO HELD
 UP IMPERIAL LAUNDRY
Place Robbed Is Just Across Street From Courthouse-Went Very Calmly About Business and
 Didn't Raise His Voice
.rhnnk. for the information..

"Thanks for the information."
 This was the soft spoken sentence of the "gentIcmnn" robber who cn- tered the offices of the BulInrd In- vestment company at 2129 Third ave- nue. opposite St. Paul's church, about 6,30 o'clock last night, and secured The remark of the robber was occa- stoned by the statement of ]. II. Fos- ter, clerk in the office. to the cf- feet that there was no money in tho safe. and that the cash was in the cash icr's drawer.
 Accounts of the robbery do not vary great deal from the holdup of the Imperial laundry several nights ago on Fourth avenue by the same nigh wayman. He is described as weighing about 150 pounds. about medium height face and black hair. Is dress1d in a neat blue. serge suit and is usually polite and soft spoken"
 Came In At 6:30
 It is recounted that this young man walked into the offices of the Bullard Investment company at 6:so o'clock last night just few minutes after l. B. Lassiter, owner of the company, had left and two clerks, J. E. Fell and ]. F Foster, were preparing to close up. The Bullard Investment company has offices on the ground floor and interior can be plainly seen by pe- destrains of whom there were a large number passing up and down the street at the time.
 He came in.'' said Mir Foster.
 ''and walked around the counter.
 l looked up just as he drew a pis-
 tol and said very quietly: Gen tlemen, where are the keys to the
 safer Mir. Fell and I did not inn mediately answer and he waved his pistol little closer to my face and repeated his question in lower tone and added that the safe had
 better be opened up mighty quick
 or something would happen. It was then that l said: There is no money
 in the safe; it is in the cash
 drawer He replied with a smile:
 Thanks for the information and
 opening the drawer started stuff
 ing the bills and loose change in
 his pockets.
 "The robber was busy at plac-
 ing the money in his clothes when
 one of our customers. a gentle
 man from North Birmingham whose
 name I do not recall at present
 entered the front door. The young
 man looked up, smiled and waving
 his pistol at the newcomer said:
 Come In, sir. and join the crowd
 come right in, please There
 wasn't anything else to do and
 our customer came in and was
 lined up against the wall.
 Tore Telephone From Wall
 'In a moment the young man
 had all the money in his pockets and turning to us he said in that playful tone of his: Well. gem
 tleQen, you will have to retire to the rear of the building. Now be good, please, and walk out As we were leaving he tore the telephone from the wall and after seeing that we were well in the back of the office he left by the front door seemingly not in very great hur- ry. We then called the police"
 Detectives Moreland and Larue an- swered the call but were unable to do anything but to ascertain that 1t was the same young man who had held up the Imperial laundry ! few nights ago.
 'This bold young man. said Chief Eagan, "is bound to make a mistake sooner or later and then we will ger him. He is evidently a young man who first familiarizes himself with the place that he will rob and always has his escape planned ahead. However, we will get him if he keeps on holding up these offices. He. cannot get away with this stunt all the time