Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-08-20
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two went from table to table
through the crowds.
Another bandit guarded the front
door while the fifth guarded the rear.
All of the men inside the rOadhouse
were heavily armed and those on
guard showed two guns. They
stripped jewelry from the women
and money from the pockets of the
men. In their haste the gunner
searching the guests tore diamonds
from rings and stickpins with their
teeth.
The identified injured guests at the
roadhouse are:
George ID. Wilson. prominent club
man and vice president of c. b. Will
son Body Company of Pontiac,
Mich. shot in the right shoulder;
Joseph l.. Weber Detroit, shot in
right knee; Miss Lucille lie Roy, De-
troit, shot in the right arm.
Two other men suffered injuries.
but were removed before police Of
ficers arrived.
The policeman killed at Monroe,
was Oscar Reinhardt, 80. a world
war veteran. He died at a hospital
two hours later, without regaining
consciousness.
Whether an argument at the road
that preceded the entrance of the
gunner was part of the holdup
plan, is being investigated by police.
! Just before the bandits appeared a
woman diner rushed onto the dance
| floor and hogan a heated argument
with woman dancer. whom she ac-
cuscd of paying too much attention
to her escort.
At the height of the argument,
/ when the attention of the patrons
! was centered on the two women. the
bandits entered. \ yolley of shots
were fired into the ceiling announce
| ing the presence of the robbers. Then,
under cover OF pistols. one man went
! to the cash register and emptied IL.
All Of the men were heavily armed
and hoy. said to have been not more
, than /? years. brandished two revolverS
over the crowd while his companions
worked.
Keep 'em up.' he called over and
| over in sins-song voice. firing occa-
or moved.
! At one table a bandit attempted to
wrest ring from womans finger.
| The ring stuck and he pulled the dia-
mond from its setting with his teeth.
The woman tainted.
|
| each hand when they entered, accord
! ing to those in the roadhouse, and one
PARTICULARLY dcft man carried two pis-
| tolls in his right hand while he searched
| the guests
AS the bandits withdrew one man
began telling what he would have done
| had he had gun. One of the bandits
! turned and fired two shots toward the
crowd. One of thsse hit Miss Lersy in
| the arm.
| About five hours after the holdup of
! the Allegate Inn, which occurred about
o'clock this morning. large automo-
, billie, reported to have been stolen
! from in front of downtown hotel in
Detroit late last night. came through
! Monroe at an excessive rate of speed.
Patrolman Rcinhardt. on a motorcycle,
ran alongside the machine.
| One of the occupants flashed a gun
! ana the Waterman drew his weapon.
The policeman fired five times into
/ the machine before he fell from his
motorcycle with four wounds in the
stomach Late this afternoon the auto
mobile was found in corn field near
! Monroe. and state police who had been
| ordered to Monroe hogan search in
the belief that some of the men in the
F, machine had been wounded and were
! secreted Fin the corn field.
| Police also arrested man Swing
the name OF Herman SaEoioss of Brook
! lyn. n. y. lie was found near the
abandoned machine. He admitted, ac-
| cording to the officers that he was one
| OF the automobile party which shot
| Heinhardt. but asserted he knew none
| of the men in the machine. lie accept
: cd their offer of ride from Detroit,
according to his alleged statement.