Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-07-04
-FOUR YOUTHS HOLD
UP CAFE TUESDAY
GET s175 FROM EAGLE RESTAUR.
ANT-sERIEs OF ROBBER-
les REPORTED

Mr.. and Mrs. s. ]. Burrows. pro
[prietors Of the Eagle cafe, Fourth
and Columbia streets, were robbed
of $175.75 at s o'clock Tuesday
morning by four young men. Que q
the young men held gun pointed IN
Mrs. Burrows face while the second
young man robbed the cash register
The other two boys stood quietly W
Mrs. Burrows ignored the gun and
ran out the rear door through the
alley to the police station, where she
reported the robbery. OfIicers Allen
and Endicott rushed to the cafe and
searched the surrounding property
but were unable to find any trace d
the thieves. Mr.. ana Mrs. Hurrowl
were of@thes opinion that tAae& lie,
iran to the Northern Pacific railroad
yards, 1t Is thought that the -four
men rode away lii an automobile. aa
earlier ID the day they had driven uI
to the cafe In car. None OF the
thieves was over 22 years OF age,
stated Mrs. Burrows, while two
looked to be about "a years old,
X II Is thought that these four
thieves are the same who have been
committing robberies throughout the
city in the last week Friday even
ing Miss Ethel u. Benson. ! member
or the high school faculty. was
robbed Of her pocketbo0k as she was
walking home past the high school
in the early part Of the evening. A
man stepped from an automobile and
snatched her purse from her hand.
She stated that the thief looked to
be about 90 years old.
William Hartman of NfsQually "a
ported to the police Tuesday that he
had been robbed OF his watch end
$36. George L. Smith Of this city
also reported to the police that two
suits of clothing and some shirts
were stolen from his home Monday.
Although no reports were made at
the police station it was also ru-
mored that two houses on the East
side were entered in broad daylight
Monday and robbed. A dozen and b
half robberies were reported to the
police during June.
That the four youths who robbed
the Eagle Cafe and the slayers Of
Thomas Ryan, the Seattle chauffeur,
who was killed Sunday night. are the
same persons is given no credence BY
Deputy Sheriffs Beebe and Starwich
of Seattle, who arrived In Olympia
Tuesday afternoon to work on the
murder case.
The automobile which belonged to
the murdered man was driven west
from Olympia near McCleary, where
it was set on fire. Late Monday af-
terEoon Sheriff John H. Clifford re-
ceived telephone call from farmer
out near McCleary, who stated that a
car out there had been set on fire.
Sheriff Clifford and his deputy, Mr..
Hoage, Immediately went out to the
scene Of the fire.
Brush, according to Sheriff Clifford,
had been piled in the car, some gaso-
line had been poured on the brush
and this was used as "kindling" with
which to start the car burning. The
tires had been removed from the car
and laid aside before it was burned.
Deputy Beebe told the Olympia
police department that last week
some young fellows hired an automo-
bile driver of Seattle to bring them
up this way and a few miles west OF
Olympia they poked a gun in his face
and relieved the driver OF about 800
and told him to keep his mouth shut
and "beat it back to Seattle" The
Olympia police had no report of this
case.
The Seattle officers and the Olym-
pia officers are Arm in their belief
that the robbers of the Eagle Cafe