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Show TWO HOLD-DPS f Druggist and Banl fe CSerk Victims, f . 1 Lloyd Store Is Robbad ( L Thirty Dollars fay Lone I Bandit. . j At Almost tho Samo Tlmo qJ B Eomney Is Held Up by Two i Airned Hen. . t 1 Il Highwaymen caused a reign of ter:t ftL on tho east side for a sho't tlrce lis1 Wi night. Within ten minutes two reper' f came to pollco headquarters, Wtiv K Lloyd, proprietor of tho Lloyd drug $ieJ? ft and Georgo Romncy being tho vtai-!" K Lloyd was held up In his plac of b! nesa by a lono highwayman and roi f of J30. while Romnoy wn onfront&i h" Cl a braco of bandits r xl First as q W- streets and relieved of $2;. It wasruacr fc' about the stieets that a grocery Q B. near M and First streets was tho stfM(t V: another hold-up earlier la the eTcri fe but tho report could not be conflrmeiL 1 "Well-DTessed Bobber at Wort (ft4 Shortly after 10 o'clock a we UJraseCwL robber walked Into Lloyd's drug store ;wK Seventh South and Seventh East ?tr?flS and leaned against a show ca 2 though desiring to mako a purchase. "ft, proprietor camo forward from the rearet ivl the store, and with a pleasant iri asked, '"What will you have?" jrjr "Put up your hands and let me hit li's what money Is In tho register," wu & rl, hold-up's reply ns he Hashed a revolm In tho face of the surprised drujj'ii. u1 Lloyd promptly complied In Tho robber quickly opened the caj drawer and extracted all the raorty h sight, amounting to about i-30, after trhici 5? he left Lloyd Immediately notified jjia fjja headquarters by telephone, and detectka fu? went down to Investigate. Scarcely had Desk Sergeant Llvlrfjj hung up the telephone receiver wlun ti fa, bell rang again. This time George R lr i.ey, a celrk In tho Commercial Xi. lionnl bank, riported that he had Uo' held up and robbed of $25 Bonk Clerk Is "Covered." vn Romncy had alighted from a Flil street car and was walking to hl3 bcrj 'j- at 122 C streot. when two mis'tt&l c.i W covered him with reolvcra Tlozztj made no resistance, and the hokJ-sy Ih searched his clothing, securing about IS ly) He was then permitted to go. ipj It !b evident that two gancs of h'i- rai wnymen aro at work. The officers hiu KM good descriptions and stand a fwi iid chance of capturing the robbers. PoUa- k"T) men In citizens' clothea patrolled the cut sldo for hours after tho robberies hi; iai night, but no arrests were made Jfj; ta: |