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Show GROCER IS HELD UP BY A LONE ROBBER Armed Man Enters Store and Porce3 C. M. King to Surrender ?20. C. M. King was robbed in his grocery store, G01 South West Temple street, by an unmasked man armed with a revolver, revol-ver, shortly beforo 9 o'clock last night Tho holdup got about $20, part of It from tho cash register and part from tho pockets of Mr. King, A purao containing ?35, which the grocor laid down whon tho robber ordered him to throw up his hands, was overlooked. over-looked. In laying the purse on a shelf under the counter, Mr. King, who is an elderly man, dropped It on his pistol, but he made no attempt to pick up the weapon. A small boy who was In the store when the robber drow his gun, dodged behind tho counter until after the holdup left. Prom tho description of tho robber given by Mr. King, it 1b believed that ho was one of the pair that, held up tho Ml. Olivet street car Wednesday night.. The only difference in the general gen-eral description was that In the robbery last night the man woro a cap, while both men woro hats in the street car robbery". It Is thought that a second man was stationed outside tho grocery store as a "lookout," though no one saw him. As soon as the robber had left the store Mr. King notified the police by tolephone and search of the neighborhood was made, but no suspicious looking persons per-sons were found. |