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Show If LONE BANDIT 1 ROBS A DRIVER I;!. r'i Delivery Wagon Held jij !'. Bewliiskered Highwayman Secures Between $40 f jl and $50. ' !i Jtobbory Took Placo in the. Early i Evening, as the Driver Was I r . Finishing- His Rounds, j i An Auerbach delivery wagon In charge A of w. F. Crow was held up by a lono Hi highwayman on Ninth East Btroel bo- j ttrecn Eighth and Ninth South about 8:13 Um night, and tbo driver wn6 relloved of 'i; between t0 and $50. Tho hold-up made ,', . his oscapo with tho money. . Young Crow was making late Saturday night deliveries. Mo had almot com- . I pletcd his rounds In tho southeastern part V 4 t of tho city and had collected a consldera- ,i ' bio sum of money. IIo was driving south j jl 1 on Ninth East, when a man sprang from ; tho aide of the road, caught hla horses by 1 I 3 tho blta and stopped them. At tho name lj i 2 time ho held a gun on Crow and ordered ( him to get out of tho wagon. Crow I ebeyed and tho hold-up then enmo back ''M to tho wngon, stood tho young man up I ( agalst tho wheel and while holding tho i i run on him with ono hand, searched his j 1 clothing with the other, securing some- j thing over ?40 of the money that had been i .1 collected. In As soon as ho had been released rrom ' : i the clutches of .tho bandit. Crow went to a store only a half block away and tele- ,j phoned police headquarters an account of 1 hlB experience Tho hold-up. ho said. ' was a large, broad-shouldered man. wenr- I , lng a light-colored Hlouch hat. Ho also I i woro a red handkerchief tied across his . f I faco and below tho handkerchief nppenred , ff a fringe of whiskers, probnbly gray In '( color. From thlH description It Is consld- I if rred possible that the highwayman Is tho t ' a same venerable Individual who a few ft nights ago held tit) the roadhouso at Main iv and Thirteenth South streets. rl j Crow Is 21 years old. the son of Alma II. w ,f Crow of 43 South Tenth East street, and I i Is a young man of unquestioned character j k and steady habits. Crow appeared In I person at tho police station as soon as ho j j' 4 could make the trip uptown and the city ji i detectives wero put at work on tho case. |