Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-11-27
UNARNED MAN
COOLY PASSES
LOADED PISTOL
Tells Man With Gun Not to
Get Excited and Calmly
Walks Out After Found in
Building Arrested Later

"Now, don't get excited. Put
that gun down"
With this remark George Kelley,
20 years old, who says his home IL
at Portland, Oregon, yesterday
morning advanced toward a load
ed revolver, advanced with the
same nonchalance as the Ameri-
can Doughboy showed when he
charged the Hun in the face Of
a whitening fire.
The revolver which Kelley so
calmly waved aside was held by
Waterman Baden, who had found
Kelley In the basement Of the Of
lice building of the Anchor Mill
ing company, at New York ave-
nue. and the railroad tracks. Baden
was SO stunned by the mans au-
dacity that he stood helplessly by
and watched him depart from the
building.
1t was only after the man had
left that Baden recovered. Then
he rushed to the telephone and
notified the police. Later in tho
daN officer Kearn arrested Kelley,
who was booked at the police sta
ton on charge of vagrancy,
pending investigation Of his hav-
ing been in the Anchor Milling
company building.
According TO the police, Baden
tells the following story about the
incident:
"Atter l went to the office yes
terday morning l heard noise
IN the basement, which is used IS
a storeroom. After | heard the
noise down there 1 decided to go
down and investigate. took my
revolver with me.
when l got down there found
the door open. Then / saw that
big fellow coming from behind a
pile OF boxes. He was coming
straight toward me. So I pointed
the revolver at him and said to
him:
"You stop right there. II you
come any closer to me I'll shoot
your CUTS out. And he just waved
his hand and kept right on COM
ing toward me, saying to me:
Ion, put that gun down!
Don't get excited, now. just take
it easy and put that gun downP
1.-THE impudence of him! What
do you think of him for impu-
dence? He is a 'hard-boiled' look
ing fellow and he has a mean
face. You look out for that fell
low, he has mean face. And l
was so surprised about his impu-
dence that | Just stood there and
watched him walk past me and go
out the door.
"Then, after lie went out the
door / went up and called YOU up.
That was little after 1880 when
1 went down there"
After Officer Kearn had arrest
ed Kelley they questioned him.
He admitted to having been IN
the basement Of the Anchor Mill
ing company building, they say.
But he claimed he had found the
door open and walked in.
Police are inclined to believe
his story. They say there is MOTH
ing to indicate that he had broken
into the building and that if he
had not found the door open
about the only way he could have
been in the storeroom was to have
been there all night. They say
this is unlikely as the door was
found open and he could have
walked out. Had he been in the
building through the night they
think it is highly improbable he
would have remained so late ini
the morning.
After his arrest Kelley was
searched. He had in his posses
sion only five-cent piece and I
three cartridges for a .3S calibre |
revolver. He had no weapon Of |
any kind, not even a small pocket |
knife at the time he faced the /
loaded revolver.
Kelley will be tried in the po-
lice court, before Judge Roddy,
this morning. The only charge on
the docket at present is one OF |
vagrancy. 1t is thought possible
the officials of the Anchor Mill /
ing company will ask that more
serious charges be preferred.