Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-14 | Page 2 | Footpad Assaults Two Ogden Youths

IlmM FOOTPAD ASSAULTS WW TWO OGDEN YOUTHS j j'jf jj'j- jljll ellB Them to Earth With Kocks, but I IjJ, 'b'Am Is caro Away Beforo He 1i j'i' y Can Rob Them. (l ill 1 jjfl Special to Tho Tribune. ' 'l ;fi flI GDEN, Utah. May 13. One of the : ' lU I A most darlnff attempto at highway 1 ' i 'i 1 iU f robbery that ever took place in- the il ' i! 'j ' ill c,ty occl,rrei about 12 o'clock to ' VI I'M ' fl n,Sht 'lthl halc a b,ock of the Unlon ' ' i n llftt station. While on their way to work In J H1 ' iJ R the express ofllco of the "Wells-Forgo ' I'll ill company, Tobe and Charles Foster were I '( ' I I B assaulted by a highwayman a few rods ' ''l!1'1 liB south r tho unIon denot and batUy i " ) NiifjiUf beaten by the robben ,! -'i'. H The young men wero coming up the I ; " JIB track towards the express office when a ' ' I t'i' nilB Jne footpad ran up to tho wldo of tho ' liSira track audi with a remark, "You're the I I !li llH fellows I'm a lookln for," began bom- il 1 ' lf bardlnff them with rocks. Tobe Foster ' 'I lU w"as struck three or four times In tho it i ' llS head and his brother Charles twice. The ' ' i 1 1 ' iM nrs- roc felled Tobe to the ground and 1 1 1 1 1 I Ik the footpad then rushed up and threw ! . JI at him while he lay on the track. Tho il $ V ' ' I V ba.i3 worn by both of the young: men J ' ' i Wwt were cut through as cleanly as If with V J ' i Iff a knife. 1 " ' ftlfi Tft0 mcn c10 lustily for help and . . .11 51 this scared the would-be holdup and ho 1 1 j)B made off toward the south without at- ,i J' 1 9 tempting- to rob hlo victim. Tlio young !' 1 men were takem to the Wnlls-Fargo ex- l i D press ofllce and Dr. Conroy called lm , J , ; In While there are several bad scalp ;!l I wounds, there aro no fractures of the 1 " , i'f I skull and the cuts were ewed up. When , ' , ' iH I the men appeared at the depot, covered Ijlfl with blood from head to foot, their np- h! 1 pearanco created a panic among tho 1 '98 Persons about the depoL