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Show HUSHED HEN ATTEMPT 10 HOLD UP Gill Conductor Pugh Is Attacked, hut Pays no Attention to. Commands. Two masked men attempted to hold up 'Conductor E. A. Pugh, who runs on tho North Salt Lake car line, at the flour mill near the Warm Springs Monday night 1 at 11:10 o'clock, but failed, as -the conductor con-ductor JumpGd on his car regardless of commands to throw up his hands, and told the motorman to turn on all the Jules possible. Pugh had stepped from tho car at tho flour mill lowatch tho railroad crossing, while the car passed over it. when two masked men came running toward him, one with a revolver drawn. As soon a3 Pugh saw the man he jumped on the car and ran to tho front vestibule to tell tho motorman to keep the car going. Th police were notified, and the patrol, with Policemen Brown, Curran and Grundvig and Detective Golding were hurried to the scene of tho attempted holdup, but search of tho surrounding locality lo-cality did not reveal any suspicious characters. char-acters. If the men had been successful in their attempt they would have made a nice haul, as Conductor Pugh was carrying something over $60 with him. |