The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-02-18

MEN THEY
CONFESS
TO Police
Suspects Are Dragged From
Beds in Another Hotel
at Four A. M.

Dragged from their beds af q -
Friday by police. Rose McDonASds
rs. entertainer, and Marie Harmefs
2i, waitress, are held. accused OF ato-
ing In a robbery at A. m. OF Oscar
Lunn. clerk In the Congress Hotel
Fourth ave. and Marion ~.
Positively Identified by I1nn -
the hoIdup man who robbed him for
the second time within a week RI
day morning. Ben Cershon. Il. ciefks
is also held on an open charge Lo0
Hartley. 81. operator. alleged To -
Gershon's partner and the fourth
member of the robbery gang y n
the city jail.
All four confessed 10 Detective
Lieutenant w. B. Kent that t2>oy
planned the robbery. Gershon and
Hartley admitted that they robbed
the tn. and also that they robbc4
Lunn. February IL.
ARRESTS MADE
IN THE CHERRY HOTEL
The arrests were made by 6erKfA
r. Carter and J. J. Crawford and
.Patroimen Robert Bridges and A. l.
Delaney in the Cherry Hotel 80
Columbia street.
The two girs were taken fruGn
room 3os and the two youths frum
tho next room. sos.
Lunn was nodding In his seat -
the hotel elevator at : q m when
the two girls entered. They askeG
for q room After signing Their
-
shown to room by Lunn-
As he opened the main noor 1ooP
Of the elevator In rctdfninG he GaW
two men iooting the office cnGA
drawer. They matched ~ nom tho
Till and ran for the door, flashing
their guns. Lunn phoncd police,
Detectives found the room rented by
the two girls empty.
Shortly after the robbery an -
cited young man. positively identt
fled AS Gershon. hired . taxi 1t SEQ
ond ave-. drove to Cherry Hotel
jumped out and ran into the build
ing without paying his fare
A few minutes later the pu1lco
were notified OF this incident iuveDp
tigatcd II. and the arrests followed
A -2e-cahber. nickcl-plated revolver
found IN Gershon's room was the
one used by the robbers. Lunn says.
ONE or THE ROBBERS
WAS MASKED
One OF the robbers was maske6
when Lunn came out OF the elevator.
The other one was Gershon, he says.
Police accuse Hartley OF being tho
masked bandit.
After arresting the two young men.
the officers went into the next room
and found in bed the two girls who
had registered at the Congress and
inveigled Lunn upstairs while the Of
flee was being robbed.
They were noncommittal Hartley
maintained his innocence.
Lunn told police that Gershon -
also one OF the two robbers who
bound. sluggcd. gagged and attempt
ed to dope him in a room In a hotel
early in the morning OF February 13.
Gershon's story Is that he left the
Cherry hotel room TO get some food
about 3 a. m. His search was fruit
less. so he hired the taxi and rode TO
the hotel. Hartley declares that he
was in the room at the time the rob
berry occurred. He verified Ger
shon's story about the fruit.
An attempt was made to Identity
Gershon and one of the girls as the
two robbers who held up three men
in a gas station at Fourth ave. and
Lenora st. the night OF February Z.
In this robbery a bandit pushed .
gun thru n window and kept three
men covered while a girl ran in the
door and snatched a satchel contain
ing 800.
T. II. Lacy, eo2 25d ave. N. one Of
the victims. was unable TO identity
any OF the four suspects Of these rob
he ries