Show THOUGHT THEY WERE HOLDUPS I Precautions of StreetCar Conductor to Meet Attack I There was a slight commotion at the I end of the Waterloo line of the Salt Lake City Railroad company late Thursday evening On two or three occasions oc-casions the conductor ond the motorman motor-man noticed several fellows hanging around in the shadows near the car and acting In a rather suspicious way They had very naturally visions of a holdup as there Is scarcely n more desolate place In the city at night Where a street air line ends than at Waterloo So the conductor made up his mind that If the supposed holdups got hfs change and receipts for the afternoon hoy wduld nave to fight for tho money Procuring a shotgun on the next trip the messenger system of the stagecoach stage-coach of years xgo was put l In vogue and continued until several trips had been made No attempt was made to molest the man behind the gun bow over and It Is probably Just as well that here t was not I was said yesterday that the people who were seen in the vicinity named were friends of both joys on the car This may be true hut In that case it might have been necessary neces-sary to kill a friend and then buy flowers flow-ers for him a couple of days after all of which would not be strictly conducive condu-cive conductor to thejjeace of mind of the average In this connection Superintendent Read says he has seen a man for several sev-eral nights past lurking in the shadows shad-ows thrown by the electric light hood on First South near Seventh East who would Immediately vanish at the corning corn-ing of a car but who closely scrutinized every passenger on I Again It was reported by a young fellow yesterday that the evening before be-fore when near the corner of Ninth East ho was followed by a man whose face was concealed by a mask and after some minutes was told that he was not the man who was wanted and then allowed to g home in peace |