Show I CAR CONDUCTOR I IS ROBBED AND LEfT HELPLESS Bandits Order Goodfellow From V Poplar Grove Car and Tie Him With MOTORMAN OBEYS THEIR SIGNAL TO GO AHEAD DETAILS OF REMARKABLE STREET STREETCAR CAR HOLDUP AS RE RELATED RELA RELATED LA ED BY CREW A peculiar pecullar street car holdup was vas re reported reported ported to the tho police at an early hour this morning V I Car No left ten Poplar Grove on its city bound trip at 1208 Just before its departure from the end of the line tho the conductor says sas two men boarded the car standing on the rear platform They The were the only passengers and just after the car had passed Eleventh West Vest street ouo oo of them told the conductor to let them thorn off at the text next crossing The subsequent happenings as related by bytho bytho bythe tho the conductor were substantially as follows When the car came to a stop at Tenth West street one of oC the men pulled a re revolver revolver revolver volver and shoving it at the head of oC I the conductor ordered him to get off the car Goodfellow obeyed the com corn command i mand mund The other man reached up in inthe inthe Inthe the car and cutting off a piece of oC the cord attached to the register got off with the conductor Then the man roan who had flashed the gun gave gae the bell rope two pulls the signal to the motorman to At the car started up the conductor in his fear under the threat of the revolver was required to submit to the anguish of seeing his car with his only possible aid ald the motorman leave him The man on tho the car jumped off when it had crossed the bridge and running back assisted his pal in bind binding bindIng binding ing the conductor After Goodfellow had bad been thorough thoroughly ly bound and thrown to the ground the robbers went through his pockets se securing securing securing curing the money contents and then took the money exchanger the belted belled device worn by conductors to carry change The robbers secured about 19 of which 15 belonged to the company as receipts Motorman O 0 did not dis discover discover discover cover the loss of his conductor until the Denver Rio ruo Grande tracks were reached According to the rules rues the motorman stopped there to receive the signal of the conductor but when G Goodfellow failed Called to appear to flag the crossing opened the cur curtained tamed door to find the empty empt car ear Peering peerIng Peer Peering ing around for the conductor concluded that something must have happened and ran his car back to the point where he ho had received his last bell there to find Goodfellow lying by b the track with his hands and feet firmly bound The motive in binding the conductor seems to have hae been to give the robbers ample time to escape without attract attracting ing mc attention Bound as he was It was Impossible Imp for foi Goodfellow to reach any anyplace anyplace anyplace place to give the alarm Three suspects who were arrested some time later were released r |