SENSATIONAL SALOON ROBBERY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14235, 4 December 1909, Page 8

SENSATIONAL SALOON ROBBERY.

« . i I t .... ,« . ~ . TWO MEN KILLED. j '■:•■ ■ Two men were shot to death and * third I badly wounded at an early hour ■in v *»;-, I saloon in the northern part of Philadelphia, U. S. A., recently, t presumably by sl| jßyfcß who a .•• few V moments before had be*o| "treated" by the owner: of the place. *) Tbfli' dead ar* Jamas Quinn,: son of the propric- 1 : tor o' he saloon, and Henry. F. S»ylor,J wbi! . .ohn J.Cassidy.was wounded in tie side. The men were shot as they cowered, before the robber, who was .masked. ; ,: ; 'About nine o'clock at night Patrick m Quinn, who operates a saloon, informed his, family he was > going to a late lodge meety ing. "His son James, who ran an elevator in the city,- volunteered to take bis place, and the elder Quinn was so grateful « being able to get away for the lodge vat*> ing that when he went down into the saloon • from his rooms above, after "»]""j[ dressed for the occasion! he c*';' 3 everybodv in the saloon ,to, 'drink on the house." "After the elder Quinn left for we lodge meeting, all those in the saloonsparted save young Quinn, Savior, and Cn* sidy. Savior and Cassidy were at a tab J near the 'bar reading a newspaper, '"J, 16 ' j Quinn's back was turned a man waited '.« < a side door and up to the bar. As Q«"'» turned to greet, the supposed customer »■ found himself facing a masked man and » drawn revolver. " Hands up! »<■« ," l " lows," was the man's command. ■ ln«j» moving his revolver so as to "cover- «• three men. lie ordered young Quinn *<>■*»»» out all the money in the cash **"?},■ Quinn grabbed a handful of bills, abort" dollars, when the man tired the farst •»«• The bullet struck Quinn in the abdomen. The wounded man. with several notes in u» hand, fell dying to the floor. Cwsidy.** Savior ran for the door. The robber «*M around, and said. "Stand where you W" you are trot going out." Cassidy t*y» ■ stopped, but not quickly enough, ami i robber fired twice, once at him a'" l 4 W« *, at Baylor. Caddys life was saved J | the fact that as the robber fired O^" was falling Ho was but dightly ™"K in the «de, but Savior was hit ««del .J heart, and died in the hospital an MJ later. He said the robber .had talw, i« ~ his valuables and tied. Quinn kwdjj a few moments after the police, arn«u but long enough to give a description the robber and to declare that be ,*« « d of those in the saloon when hi. father "treated the crowd" In add-on to ro bing Savior as he lav dying, the. «**« man rifled-the cash drawer, tool M could find on young Quinn, and searci *$%** Conn was arreted in connect with the murders. '/ _