Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-09
HOLDUP MEN ROR LOWELL ROOM AND ESCAPE
 POLICE
Force Chaffeur to Drive Toward Mexico at Point
 Of Pistol


 At the point of l5 calibre auto matic, about 20 men, who were said to have been shooting craps in a room in the Lowell hotel at that place were held up at 1:30 o'clock Sunday morning by three men who took al. the money in the alleged game. over $1000. and all the money, watches, and valuables that their victims had in their pockets. The three hold up men then jumped into a waiting au- tomobile and disappeared.
 In another car. in hot pursuit. Dep uty Sheriff Ryan overlook them about three miles this side of Douglas. Standing on the running board he or dered the other car to stop. Roth cars slowed down but suddenly the ahead again at full speed and the chase was resumed.
 Ryan did not like to shoot because he was not certain that the car con tained the. robbers. He had left ir pursuit 25 minutes after the holdup occurred without knowing what di- rection the bandits had taken or what kind of a car they were in. He feared that the occupants of the car might think that an attempt was be- ing made to hold them up end that they were putting on speed for that reason.
 The officer directed the driver of his car to follow the other car into Douglas and said that if it did not turn up G avenue, as would ordina- rily be the case, he would stop it if he had to shoot. After crossing the railroad tracks the car ahead went on up Sixth street instead of turn ing, so Ryan, with gun in hand, brought his own car alongside and pointing his gun ct the driver order ed him to stop. At this point one of the men in the car seized the wheel and turned sharply up E avenue. The car Ryar was in was going to fast to make the turn at the same time and was forced to go ahead. Ryan jump ed off the running board in time to see three men jump out of the other car and run up an alley. He fired three shots at them without effect.
 Alvin Browning was driving the car the hold up men were in. He said that the three rented the car from him earlier in the evening without telling him where they were going. Shortly before 1:30 in the morning they told him to wait for them at the entrance of the Lowell hotel. One of the men, an old man. stayed in the car with him while the other two went into the building, In few minutes they came out, got into the car casually and without any hurry and told him to drive toward Doug. las. Browning had no reason to be suspicious and did as he was told
 Browning said that when Deputy Sheriff Ryan tried to stop them three miles out of Douglas he tried 10 slow down but one of the men pointed a revolver at him aud told him he would be shot if he stopped Another man. he said. was going to shoot Ryan who was standing ou the running board of the pursuing ma. chine but his companion pursadued him not to shoot until it was neces. sary"
 It was dark and Ryan was unable to see the occupants of the other car with their guns or he would have done some shooting himself.
 Deputy Sheriffs Ryan and Foster had met the three hold up men on the streets of Lowell only 30 minutes before the hild up. As the men were strangers in the town the officers questioned them and warned them that if they had any legitimate bus mess in the town they had better get room and be about it.
 Harry Wilson reported the hold up to Ryan and from the description of the men the officer knew it was the same three be had questioned q short time before. The officers are confi- dent that the three men came over fom Mexico and escaped across the line again from Douglas. As they were going over the scene of the gun play in Douglas the next morning Ryan found s14 scattered along the road which the hold up men had dropped in their hurry to escape.
 According to the officers the room where the crap game was said to have been in progress has been raided by them on several occasions.
 Earlier in tho evening, Dan Gal lagher. a transfer man of Lowell. was held up. knocked on the head and rob. bed of S14 between Lowell and John son addition. The officers think the crime was committed by the same men who later help up the alleged crap game.