Show SALT LAKES LAKI S BOLD BANDITS Masked Maske Robbers Hold Up a Grocery Store While Many People ople and nd Secured J w I IS S Open pen the Cash Drawer 1 there are highway robbers In Inthe InI j I the city whose boldness Is eclipsed only by that of the Robbers Roosters themselves was demonstrated last night when two masked holdups entered the store of ot S C Slaughter at 63 South Fifth East street with drawn revolvers held up the proprietor and his clerk robbed the cash drawer and made their escape With ith about In money and two meat knives which they took away awa from Mr Slaughter The robbery was i as so daring laring that Mr Ir Slaughter ter and his clerk cerk John Hart Mart thought at first they the were being made the vic victims vIctims tims tirns of a a Joke jokl but the holdups chucked them under the chins with the muzzles of their th lr revolvers and while one bandit held his revolver In the faces of the two store men the other robbed the till f Several people were seen to pass the store while the holdup was Ih In progress I hut but no one would take the risk of rais rols raising ing an alarm or attempting to Inter Interfere Interfere fere fore The robbery occurred about 9 45 46 in the evening j a thickly populated portion of the city and within sight of oC another store across the street where a number of men were standing about but the robbers Jobbers were gone before the police poUce could be notified of the occur occurrence occurrence rence renca Thought it Was a n Joke Mr Ir Slaughter stated that he be was pre pro preparing preparing paring to close his store for the night and was standing at the meat block with his clerk Mr Hart cutting some meat when they heard some one on enter the door and order them to throw up their hands Mr Slaughter glanced around and saw two men with big hats I pulled p over aver their eyes eeli handkerchiefs over their faces and revolvers in Ip their hands crouching near the door out but he thought that some of the boys in the neighborhood had put up a joke on him and he did not make any haste to comply with the orders One of the men said Hart walked up to me chucked me Under the chin ch n with his revolver so hard that I bit my lip tip and an shouted to me to throw up my hands bands or he would kill me and then we put up our hands While one of ot the robbers beld eld his re revolvers in the faces of the two men menthe menthe menthe the other took the meat knives Ives which lay In a drawer shear near by b After Atter search searching searchIng searching ing their victims and taking same small change from both one of the holdups went to the cash drawer and attempted to open It but failing Cailing made Mr Slaughter ter open it at the point of or a revolver and stand t by y while he took look out ut the cash which amounted to about The two highwaymen were perfectly cool and leisurely about their work and after finishing their Job backed out of the store and dashed north along the sidewalk as fast as they the could go Witnessed by Several Seve l Men Iten MenI I saw several men pass the store and look In while I was holding my ny hands in the air said Mr Ir Slaughter but not one of or them even sounded an alarm and we were forced to stand there until the robbers made their es escape escape cape cane 1 Mr Slaughter ran to a phone as soon as the robbers were gone and ant sum aunt summoned summoned the police but by the time Ume the I latter arrived no trace of the th high highwaymen highwaymen waymen could be four foutt A description of or the men was furnished the police I and the officers are keeping a look out for tor them |