The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-01-08
TWO HOTELS Are
ROBBED; GUEST
ECALLED THIEF
Manager Of Aquamsi Thinks
Man Who Rented Room
Ransacked Others.
FRISCO ENGINEER
SAW BURGLAR TWICE
Prescott Guests Lose S25-TOtal
Booty is Estimated at
About SOS.

The Aquamsi Hotel was raided by a
sneak thief Monday night and the
sleeping guests were relieved of
about $40 in money.
About Ia rooms were entered, and
each one was ransacked. Pockets were
turned wrong side out, and bed cloth
ing was piled on the floor. Drawers
were pulled from the bureaus and the
contents scattered over the floor, but
in no case was any article removed
that could be identified. Watches
were left untouched, and various ar
ticles of valuable jewelry were left be-
hind.
N. S. Sullivan, a Frisco engineer,
was awakened by the intruder, and
when Mr.. Sullivan asked what he was
doing, the stranger mumbled incoher-
emily and hurried from the room.
Mr.. Sullivan soon fell asleep, but
awakened a short time later to find
the same trespasser standing over
him. When he addressed him the sec
ond time, the thief fled from the room
and ran down the hall way. Mr.. Sui
livan followed him until he heard
door slam, and then he gave up the
chase as he felt certain that it would
be impossible to locate the culprit.
Mr.. Sullivan related his experience
to Mr.. Burns, the proprietor, when he
arose early yesterday morning, but
nothing was heard from any of the
other roomers until later in the day
when ]. Fay, painter, informed Mr..
Burns that someone had gone through
his pockets during the night, and
stole a small amount of money. Mr..
Burns then made thorough investi-
cation, and found that most of the
rooms had been entered, and traces of
the thief were found in all but the
three that had been locked by their
occupants.
George Hull, boarder, who is en-
ployed as an engineer on the river
front improvement work reported that
when he awoke he found his purse had
been taken from his trousers pocket
and searched and left on the floor.
Robert Kinder, a foreman on the
river front work, did not discover that
he had also been made victim until
almost noon when he had occasion to
take some money out of his pocket,
and discovered that he was without
funds. He had left the hotel before
the complaints had been made, and up
to that time was not aware that the
hotel had been entered by thieves.
He hurried to his room and found
no trace of his missing money, and
when he learned of the reports that
had been received from the other
guests, he realized that he had also
been robbed. Mr.. Kinder's loss
amounted to almost $40.
Mr.. Burns says he believed the rob-
berry was committed by some of the
transient guests who had engaged
rooms for the night, as there was no
opportunity at any time for a person
to gain access to the rooms during
the night without him seeing them
pass through the office.
Sometime Tuesday afternoon a
thief ransacked a number of
rooms. of the Prescott Hotel and Sc
cured about $25 worth of clothing.
The parties who were robbed visited
their rooms at noon and found every
thing in orderly condition, and moth
ing missing, but when they returned
at o'clock in the evening they found
that various articles of wearing APP
parel had been taken.
Mr.. Ritchey, the proprietor, stated
that the party whom he suspected had
been seen to go up towards the rooms
shortly after noon, but that no one
had seen him return, and that he had |
disappeared completely and had over
looked paying the bill he owed for
board.
Lester Short, an employee on the
river improvement work lost a
suit of clothes valued at $50, and Ain
Saloun, another employee on the river
front improvement, was relieved of a
rain coat valued at S.. Guy Beck, a
lineman for the Missouri Public Util-
tiles Co., had a flannel shirt taken
from his room.
The rooms in both hotels are oc
cupied mostly byregular boarders all of
whom are acquainted with each other
and it is rare that any of them take
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