Show I j 1 11 J 4 4 4 4 1 4 4 4 a t b p r r f s f d c cp p a r h c h p a f y a o t 1 4 I I GRIME CRIME EPIDEMIC LASTS TWO TO HOURS Highwaymen and Burglars Burglar Keep Patrol Wagon on Con Constant Constant Constant stant Move But in Vain ROB MAIL CARAND CAR A AND D SALOON ALARMS COMa COM IN SO RAPIDLY RAPIDLY POLICE ARE FLUSTERED t I H 49 H I Tearing the t e town wide open to f use tho the parlance of the thief high highwaymen highwaymen i waymen turned loose In Salt Lake f last lust night and wo hours the police were informed the robbery I f 4 of oC a druggist a saloon an attempt I upon a combination States 1 mail mall and express car carat carat carat at the D R It G depot and the H failure or 01 an attempted burglary of or ofa ora H a residence Headed by Chief of Police B S M H 4 f Barlow a posse of police poUce and plain plainclothes plainclothes H clothes men attempted to capture the f highwaymen but without avail 4 Scores of extra policemen would have been useful but with none to draw on patrolmen u ad i d detectives H 4 scattered about the city with the 4 patrol wagon going at high speed on 4 errands as al Ineffectual as if traveling 4 In a circle M H The first summons came from the drug drugstore drugstore store of Dr T H Hazel at Eighth South and nd Second West streets While the Hoc Zoc Hoctor oc octor tor oi was Wag at work vork arranging a percolator behind the prescription case In the back backart part art of his store stem two young men en entered entered entered and thrust revolvers In his face Both wore wor masks In i a astern tern stern voice one o tRem ordered Dr Hazel Haze to throw up his hands The other low lowered lowered lowered ered his revolver when the physician had obeyed the command and went t to the cash register With a curse he re rt removed removed moved the change consisting of only 4 1 He then demanded Dr Hazels keys They were turned over to him without resistance and the highwaymen walked out of the store and started to run down Second West street When Detectives F M Wheeling and ani F P M Id 1 1 Schulze and Motorcycle Patrol Patrolman Patrolman Patrolman man Dan Don Grundvig arrived Dr Hazel Haze refused to furnish a description of ot the highwaymen You are too late he saW sati The Th highwaymen hIghwayman are now halt half a dozen blocks from rom here The police department is in insufficient sufficient to handle bandle this situation What we ive need is is a vigilance committee and J I 1 firmly b that the thieves could be riven drien cwt of Salt Lake by a vigilance ommittee There are hundreds of peo peole pIe le ie willing to start such a committee md nd I will most certainly be in its anks ranks While Dr Hazel was being held up uj his us is wife was in a back room reading Feared Fate I was afraid says the doctor that my ny wife would hear hoor me and give an out outcry outry cry rry and more afraid of or that than the highwaymen for in that event I would probably have gone where Fassell the grocer went not so very many nights ago igo goIt It seemed to me rue added Dr Nasal Hazel that one of the highwaymen was pro for he seemed to know the game gama thoroughly while his assistant was waa a pupil seeming to be much nuch younger and trembling perceptibly as is he thrust the revolver Into my face only to withdraw it when the real man ordered him to take the money out of oJ he the cash register The store of Dr Hazel was held beld up ip once before That was early last No November November vember rember when highwaymen thrust re revolvers revolvers into his face as they did last night light securing about 10 lO from a cash regIster Just as aa the police returned from the rob robery robbery bevy bery ery of the Hazel drug store Lieutenant R N 1 L Shannon hannon was informed that United States mail maU car No which is ia also ilao a express car and a aD aD D 3 R G baggage car had been brok broken en m Into at the Rio Grande Grands depot Win In lows dows leading Into the mall mail division the division and the baggage division were ware smashed and from traces about the car It is evident that two rob robbers bars bers rs had been at work They first en entered ered the mall mail car but finding that everything had bad been removed they broke Into nto the baggage compartment Only a afew afew few ew trunks could be found there and they hey next smashed a window leading In Ino Into Into to o the compartment It is evident that the robbers were weN tightened frightened away after they had bad entered the he compartment They had bad removed moved express packages from their boxes and scattered them about the floor trampling on some of them In an In Inventory n of the articles taken at the Wells Fargo argo office in the Denver Demer Rio Grande depot lepot by Edward Cushing Gushing last night It 11 was vas found that none nOlle of th packages In transit were missing Mr Cushing was one me of the first to enter the car and this was vas after he lie had heard a crash of glass and md the heavy tramp of two men down lown through the railroad yard Holdup In Burlington Bar When the tho police poUce had hod finished the In Investigation of the combination car bur burglary burglary glary lary a call came Into the station that thai Burlington bar South West W st Temple street had been held beld up by two young oung highwaymen who had hod not taken the precaution of wearing masks When the saloon aloon had bad been temporarily vacated of ol customers the highwaymen entered and thrust revolvers in the face of Burt acting as bartender According to o the description de furnished the police by bythe bythe the he bartender they were weN well dressed and nd used pleasant tones when they told him ilm to throw up his hands S While one of them held a revolver close to o the bartenders temple the other went back ack of the bar to the cash register and rifled it of U 11 in change Then rhen he searched the he bartender and secured 12 of his bis per personal onal funds This Is the second time within two weeks reeks that the Burlington bar has bas been held up Eleven days ago two men en entered entered ered the thirst parlor and secured cured S 40 10 from rom a cash cosh register making the bartend bartender bar tender ender tend r hold up his hands bands In Addition to several everal customers The Tho saloon was then owned by Elbrige Parks better known as s Doc Parks who died several days ago go goThe The fourth call to police headquarters proved roved to be an attempt at burglary the miscreants being baIng frightened away before they bey could gain entrance to the tha residence of f Mrs Sarah Schwartz Hamilton Hammon place lace Mrs 1 rs Schwartz was alone In the house ouse when she heard a man walk about her er residence finally attempting to fit keys eys Into the tho front entrance With a loud outcry she drove the burglar away He returned in a few minutes however and again gain tried the lock of the door Then Mrs Irs Schwartz called caned the police poUce When officers arrived the burglars burgl had made their escape Mrs Schwartz says that thieves tried to enter her residence Tuesday night by attempting to pry open a window The marks of or a Jimmy used on a window windowsill sill can be clearly seen Apparently the same ame gang tried to gain entrance to the residence of W A Sevy 6 5 Hamilton place lace Tuesday night climbing up on a porch and attempting to get into a n win window window dow ow In a room where Mrs Jonathan Perry erry was taking care of the Sevy chit dren ren while the father and mother were away way |