Show ANOTHER HOLDUP William T Cromer Beaten and Robbed Last Night The Footpads Were Armed and Meant Business Police in Hot Pursuit Some Arrests At about 930 last night William T Cromer the wellknown real estate agent was walking along C street towards to-wards his home when suddenly a man jumped in front of him and thrusting a pistol almost in Mr Cromers face commanded com-manded him to throw up his hands The later knocked the pistol away with his left hand and at this juncture another footpad stepped up behind him and dealt him two blows over the head with a club or some other weapon Mr Cromer fell to the groundbleeding and senseless and the thugs then searched him and carried off a gold watch and chain valued at 250 but in their haste overlooked some money which he had in his pocket In a few minutes the victim recovered sufficiently t make his way home where he dressed his wounds and coming downtown down-town informed Chief Paul of what had occurred Unfortunately he was unable to furnish an accurate description of the ioldupsbut the police are making every effort to run them down |