Bisbee daily review., 1917-06-08
DARING HOLD-UP TAKES PLACE IN
 DOUGLAS HOTEL
Two Masked Men Enter Room During Gambling Game, Rob Players And Escape; Suspects Nabbed.
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 DOUGLAS, June 7-As the result of a holdup at midnight last night of the occupants of a room over the Mer-' chants pool hall, S36 G avenue, where it is alleged a gambling game was con ducted,' Jesse Gardner, aged 21, and B. A. Banta, aged 23, are prisoners in the city jail today with a charge of robbery against them, and the peni- tentiary staring them in the face. They are employees of the c. & A. smell ter.
 Just how much the two men who robbed the place secured is not defi- nitely known, though the most reliable estimate places it at slightly over S200. Practically all the money was recov- cred and returned to the owners. After leaving the place one of the robbers fled on a motorcycle and in his haste lost a roll of bills containing S90. He was not aware of the loss until the man who had been robbed told him of it later. Then he said that in his haste he might have lost the bills. Deputy Sheriff Charles E. Cross searched the road between here and Pirtleville at daylight this morning and found the money lying in the road.
 Wore Masks
 The robbers wore masks made from big blue handkerchiefs in common use among laborers. Each was armed and when they entered the place they com manded the inmates. half dozen or more men. to throw up their hands. All complied and the robbers made hurried search of their pockets. They secured S90 from one man and amounts ranging from S1O to s25 from others.
 One man had S10 or S15 in his pock- ct and purse containing $50 in bills. The robbers took both, but when the man asked that his pocketbook be re- turned to him. as it had his name on it and was of no use 10 anybody else. the robbers returned it without looking in side. Another man, for whom the cards evidently hadn't turned right, had only 15 cents in his pockets and the holdup men refused to take that.
 Notify Cross.
 It is said that some of the men robbed thought they recognized Gard ner and Banta as the robbers. They called up Deputy Sheriff Charles E. Cross and he went to the room of the young men, about three-quarters of mile west of town. Here. it is said. the officer found all the money stolen in the holdup except the $90 which had been lost, and also small pieces of blue goods cut from the handkerchiefs to make slits for the robbers to see through. The two men were then placed under arrest.
 It is said that one of them had lost $40 or $50 yesterday afternoon at the place they are alleged to have robbed last night, and tEat his idea was to get his money back and as much more as possible. The other young man is reported to never have gambled and of the large returns it offered. The supposition is that the holdup men eX- pected to find big game in full prog ress and to get away with the bank roll. Apparently gambling had been in progress or was about to be started. How the bank roll of the men who conduct the game managed to escape the robbers is not known. though it is said it would have materially in- creased the receipts had it been in evi- dence.