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Show TABLES WERE TURNED.- Highwayman Is Captured by His "Would-Bo Victim. SAN FRANCISCO. March 2-1. The tables ta-bles were turned upon a highwayman last nlghl. Ho had Just stood up a bank clerk named John E. Webster uf tho point of a pistol and robbed him of u gold watch and a small sum of money on Ashbury street, ncur Hays, when the grlpmnn and conductor con-ductor of a passing car rushed to tho victim's vic-tim's assistance. This gave Webster an opening, anil ho grappled with tho robber, who fired at him with n revolver, but with tho assistance assist-ance of tho enrmen, ho was overpowered and turned over to tho police. Ho gave his name, as Charles Colby, but later said his right nume was Otto Mitchell, Mitch-ell, and that ho had arrived from Los Angeles An-geles four months ago, and was out of work. |