The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-04-20
TWO HOLDUPS
LAST NIGHT
IN TOWN
Robbers Enter Two Local Saloons
and Bullets Fly As
Result
DEALER RISKS HIS LIFE
TO PROTECT BANK-ROLI
Officers Round Up Three Men Who
Are Accused Of
Robberies

The Mozart saloon on Main street
vas held up at $3.50 this morning.
Cne hundred dollars was taken from
the cash register and in a gun duel
that ensued between one of the
Eoldups and Chef Carpenter, pro-
prietor of a poker game in the
saloon, $500 worth of damage was
aone to bar fixtures and glass in
the front windows.
The Star saloon, in the red-light
district, was held up before day
bI eak, the police claim by the same
mar who did the work in the Mo-
Fart, but no money vas secured.
Following the holdup of the Star
saloon, Night Officer Benton and
the robber engaged in a gun duel
in which nine shots we're fired, five
ty the officer and four by the hold
I'D, thus ending without casualties
one of the widest of true wild
west nights Goldfield has ever ex-
le~rienced.
Two men whom the police claim
to be the holdups, are in Jail, and
a third is being held pending an in
vestigation.
Two men entered the Mozart sa-
loon last evening. One stayed in
the cafe and the other at the poker
table. They were regarded with
suspicion and during the night fire.
euently held conferences, in which
it is believed they planned what fol-
lowed. Both were we'll dressed and
Lad money, one of them a large
roll of bills.
The proprietor, Marius Durand,
left the place at 2:15, leaving be-
lind the bar, Badly" Allison, a
new bartender from Tonopah, who
was to work his first shift in the
saloon.
Fifteen minutes after Durand left
the man who had been at the poker
table left the saloon and in a short
time re-entered it, with a white
handkerchief tied over his face as
a mask. He had IN automatic pis-
toll in each hand and as he entered
his partner came from the cafe at
the real and, walking up to the
bar, said to the bartender, You
bald-headed --, hold up your
lands"
1t was Allison's first experience
and he promptly crawled under the
bar, the safest place during the
shooting that followed. There were
a number of other men in the saloon
at the time, but none moved but
Carpenter, who ran out the rear
door at an opportune moment. The
masked man followed him into the
cafe on the run, shooting after him,
but was grabbed by Carrie Ran
coni, a cook, who wrestled with him
and probably saved Carpenters life.
as had the holdup caught up with
him there is little doubt Carpenter
would have been shot.
Carpenter went to the Bank sa-
loon and secured a gun. In the
meantime the masked man had re
turned to the saloon and his part
Ter had rifled the cash register Of
about 500, overlooking two S. gold
pieces.
Carpenter re-entered the front
door as the register was being
cleaned and he and the masked man
opened fire. In the duel that fol-
lowed none of the shots took effect,
although one of them grazed Car
renters shoulder. 1t is estimated
from bullet holes in the bar fix
lures, window and walls hat at
least IL shots were fired before the
holdups left, leaving Oh the poker
table $500 as a result of Carp,n-
ter's brave defense.
When Carpenter saw the masked
an enter the front door he i'm
mediately recognized him as the
man who had been playing at his
table and realized that a stiff de-
tense of some kind would be neces-
sary if the bank-roll was to be
saved.
When he re-enterei tie saloon
and started shooting the man at the
cash register moved. He
seemed 10 know what his end of the
game was and that his partner vas
capable of caring for the opposition
end he continued to take the money
from the. register through all the
firing.