| Show STREET GAR HELD UP Two Armed Men Rob Conductor Con-ductor and Motorman SECURE MONEY AND WATCH Surprise Crew at Terminus of Salt Palace Line Bold Bandits With Revolvers Make Daring Raid Which However Yields but Little Plot Holdups as well as burglars are visiting the city No one realises this fact better than C A Caffel and T D Miller two street car mon who looked Into the muzzles of a couple of big revolvers re-volvers last evening and In obndlence to a gruff command held their hands over their heads while their pockets were rifled The robbery occurred In front of the north entrance of the Salt Palace while the street car of which I Ca eel and Miller are the crew was standing at the end of the track waiting wait-ing for time to run to the other end of the line on First street The robbers appeared to be little more than boys Both were long and gaunt and badly dressed but they were not nervous or awkward and acted In a manner which stamped them a old hands at the business busi-ness nessI was about a minute after 9 oclock when Caffel the conductor looked up to see a man with u handkerchief tied across his face climbing upon the cIr The fellow opened the door with a Jerk poked a heavy cnllbor revolver threateningly threat-eningly at the conductor and ordered him to throw up hiM hands ONE ROBBER MASKED at the At the sammie moment the door opposite end of the car was Jerked open and a second robber armed with u big revolver covered the motorman and advised him lo Imitate the conductors atllludc The second man Was not masked and seemed not In the least averse to exposing a long narrow face with n shock oC fair hair and n pair or gray eyes A red bandanna handkerchief handker-chief covered the features of the other fellow Bad evening to come boys suggested sug-gested the motorman theres not much doing on Sunday and we havent got much money Were blanked hard up and thlsll he a big help answered thc masked robber ins he extracted a handful of small coins 3 In all from the conductors con-ductors pocket Guess Ill lake this ticker along he added removing the victims watch and chain with a jerk and holding It to his ear a moment to hear If i was In running order Satisfied Satis-fied on that score he dropped the watch Into his coat pocket along with the coins He found nothing else In Caffela pockets GAVE BACK WATCH Even worse luck was encountered when Millers pockets were searched No money was found but a small watch waR taken from his vest pocket yotit fellows dont want that thing It only cost a dollar and a quarter explained ex-plained Miller The holdup turned It over several times looked at It carefully and then put It back Into the motormans vest I aint worth a devil of a lot he assented Guess this Is about all we get here said the holdup who had been doing the searching His confederate assented and the two then backed out of the car and disappeared I 1 The police were notified |
