Show a ROBES ROBBERS m w MAKE MAKEL L BOLD ATTEMPT AT Thugs Employ Hack to Carry Away Victor Bain a Stranger as Victim PLAN IS FRUSTRATED BY SALOON KEEPER USES WEAPON IN TRYING TO BRING DOWN DESPERADO EXCITEMENT ON STATE ST i Robbers attempted to kidnap Victor Bain an Intended victim and ant carry him away in a hack from front Kennedys Kenne ys saloon at South State street ast night about 10 They were frustrated by the saloonkeeper who in interfered n red with a drawn revolver The story of the attempt to carry Bain of orr to 0 a place where he could be robbed is like ike a chapter from a sensational novel 1101 It t was the most daring crime yet at tempted empted by the gang of crooks nov no in festing Salt Lake Bain who is a stranger in the cit city wandered into Kennedys saloon a t few minutes before the Ing ng He was followed by a short abort man wearing a brown stiff hat and a suit of black clothes As he entered the door the th piano player was rattling off a ragtime tune which pleased Bain and he asked the musician to havea havo hae a drink with him Then turning and seeing the man who had dad followed him he Invited Invite him hInt to share his hospitality Bain paid for the drinks with a 20 O gold piece exhibiting at the time a landfill handful nf or coins In Hands of Strangers Pocketing the change he walked walker to fo toward foward toward ward the rear of the saloon where tile piano is located Halfway ho h b began to stagger as though sudden s lv Iv affected by drink or drugs Seeing Se illg this thir thi the short man said to Kennedy Take care of or him for Cor a a minute nil ill you ou Ill set get a hack and take tal e him home Thinking that the two men ver ac cc acquainted Kennedy agreed to watch Bain while the short man was ivas looking for tor the vehicle The robber soon returned In hI a hack hak which alley atley at the side of the saloon But when whon in effort was made to take Bain from the side Eide door and put him Into the vehicle h he resisted The struggle attracted Ken Kennedys Kennedys Kennedys attention and he went to tr the e door There he saw a confederate nf of the lilt robber perched upon the seat with the till driver drive The short man was already alread in th tb hack and was endeavoring to drag Bain inside These are not my friend I Bain as he struggled to free himself I dont know them Convinced that Bain was In 11 the thit hands of thieves the th saloonkeeper drew a revolver r volver and ordered the man in the hack to free his victim Startled at this turn tum of or events the short man leaped I from the hack and ran away climbing a fence in the rear of Ken Ien Kennedys Kennedys place As he was disappearing over the fence the saloonkeeper fired fireda a shot at him him Escapes in Crowd While Kennedy was engaged with the short man the man on the seat of or the hack grabbed the reins from the thi hands of the driver drier and attempted to t drive out of or the alley Someone who had been attracted by the commotion at the door seized the horses by the bit and tried to hold them At that the thief thier took up the whip and lashed the horses The excited animals broke away from the man who held them and dashed out of the alley to State street At Third South street the thief returned Ue the lines to the driver and without checking the horses leaped to the street He was soon lost in the n When the police arrived both of the thieves had disappeared The Red Rowe was wag taken to police headquarters He ex cx explained that he did not know the thieves They had engaged him he said to take a drunken friend home and he had gone to Kennedys saloon without an idea that a robbery was contemplated Until Kennedy inter Int J he said he still believed that the tIme man on the seat with him and the short man inside of the hack were wera friends of Bain The nolice pollee believed the story and released him The police think that Bain was drugged before he went to Kennedy ys s a saloon aloon and was followed by b the thieves who had planned to rob him |