Show STREET CAR ROBBED BY DRUNKEN BANDIT Thu ThuU Uses Rifle R in Hold Holdup p Then The t Flees to His Nearby Home Where Wh re He Is Captured POINTING P a small calibre Winchester rifle at the motorman and two passengers John Davis Girard avenue held up and robbed Fourth North street ear car ar No shortly before 12 oc ock last night at the corner of Fourth North and Fifth West streets Securing a watch from William Spielberg an advertising man in the Felt building and 2 in change from another passenger Davis Wished dished to his home less than two blocks away where he was arrested half an hour later As he be entered the car Davis first made mode the passengers throw up their hands Then he attracted the attention of Motorman O G F Patterson He com corn commanded commanded the motorman to take off his hat and anti puss it among the passengers ordering them to contribute everything of value When the watch and 2 in change had been dropped in the hat the motorman passed it to Davis who dashed out of the rear vestibule and es escaped escaped capel The highwayman apparently failed to see M A Hortt the conductor who stood well back in the car as Davis en entered entered entered The conductor rushed out of the vestibule and ran to the nearest resi residence residence residence dence from which he telephoned to po police police police lice headquarters Several detectives and patrolmen under Lieutenant R B L Shannon responded and assisted by b the motorman and conductor and Mr Spiel Spielberg Spielberg Spielberg berg they succeeded in making the ar arrest arrest arrest rest While the conductor was calling the police pollee the mOtorman an Spielberg and the other passengers passenger tried to follow Davis Dals By his actions they knew he lie was drunk and the rifle he carried was handled carelessly Following at a respectful distance they were startled when Davis Dals fired several shots How However However However ever he merely killed a dog that had chased him through the darkness Davis detoured the block and reached his home in avenue from the rear Still carrying the cap he emptied some of its contents in the bed threw watch atch over the back fence and threw the cap through a trap door d or into the cellar where it was later found foundAs foundAs As B the pursuers reinforced by the tIle po police police lice surrounded the house Davis emerged in his shirt sleeves and re remarked remarked remarked marked that the man had a lot of ot of nerve to hold up a street car He was pointed out by b Spielberg as the man who held up the car and was arrested by Lieutenant R Jl I 1 L Shannon As tho the police pollee arrived on the scene they the began a systematic search that stretched as far as the tho Oregon Short Line yards The posse began to search every corner of ot o Girard avenue Spiel Spielberg Spielberg Spielberg berg who had a good gO d description of the highwayman was Vas at the arm of Lieutenant Shannon With policemen and detectives scattered about the street they had arrived in front of No when Davis appeared and was wasi i placed under arrest the police surrounded the man while he made vigorous vl orous protests A search was made of the house Over the b bed bedstead d I Istead stead hung the rifle that the highway highwayman man had used Patrolman Pitts searched the t e bed awl and found 2 in chango change that had been taken talc en from one of the passengers Sergeant J S T J T Roberts began a search for the hat In which the motorman had taken up the collection and found it ita itIn In a the basement Spielberg located his hl watch in a little pool of muddy water When the cap the watch latch and the money found In the bed had been presented before the holdup he pr that someone had cached It IIi in his home ome without his knowledge He said that his name was John Davis and that he was a hard working laborer Davis DavisI I has a wife and she also came forward and attempted to protest that her hus bus husband band had not been out of the house dur dig during durling ling ing the entire evening |