Thief in Square Snatches $16,000

Furniture company employee was robbed $16,000 Saturday night in the Holy-center arcade.

William Gordan Jr., an employee of Design Research, Inc., 57 Brattle St., was intercepted by a lone bandit on his way to deposit the company money at the Cambridge Trust Company. He said the robber stuck a blunt instrument in his back at Holyoke St. and Mass Ave. and walked him down to Mt. Auburn St. toward Holyoke Center.

When Gordan reached Mass Ave. he looked around and the bandit had vanished. Cambridge police are investigating the robbery but had no information available yesterday.