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Show 11 1 El aught in Home of Salt Lake Jurist, They Compel Automobilists to Hurry Them From the Posse of Police. ISTOLS ENFORCE BANDITS' DEMANDS 'atrolmen Easily Out-listanced Out-listanced in Heated Chase; Autoists Unnerved Un-nerved by Thrilling sExperience in Ride. Two daring bandits late yesterday aft-i aft-i noon cITcileil an escape after what is 'IKI lO HHVU i't'UM t-1113 ijuiuboi atLLuiii-u daylight burglary and holdup which have een witnessed in Salt Lake in many nonlhs. Discovered hi the act of forcing .e front door of the residence of Judge U llliani I I. Bramel, 13S0 East Second ulh street, they fled from the residence with Judge Bramel in hot pursuit, and, fter an exciting chase of four blocks, .i.nped into an automobile occupied by . A. Allison, manager of the American ower company, with offices in the Bos-n Bos-n building, and his wife, and compelled -mi, at the points of two automatics, to ry them away at breakneck speed from , scene of their crime. '."he bandits wore pursued by the police irol. which was easily outdistanced by e high -power Allison auto, although lice Chauffeur William Pierce drove his iiehine to Its limit for more than two .lies-In a vain effort to overtake the en. The commandeering of the Allison car ok place at tlte Conoco service station t Ninth East and Third South streets .Tier the bandits had fired one shot at ainuel Agaard, manager of Ihe station, vho, with Detective Harlow Eyons, at- '"inpted lo Interfere. LEAP PROM CAR; EFFECT AN ESCAPE. After forcing Mr. Allison, with a pistol at v.irU car, to drive them at breakneck speed to a point on old Twelfth South ' reel, about five miles west of Slate, higbw ay in on j urn pod from the car i? made their escape through the ad- ining fields. I'p to a late hour last ight they had not been captured, despite .lie efforts of half a doxen city detectives vlio were Immediately put on the trail. "As 1 approached our doorway," Judge iramol mi id. "I .saw the men there. A'hcn l hey saw me they made their way o the second floor of the building through tn open hallway as if in search of sememe seme-me in the apartment upstairs. When lose enough 1 noticed the marks of a '"jimmy" on our door and knew at. once iat the men had been attempting to ffect an entrance. I waited by the door, uid in a few minutes the pair came 1own, each with his hand in his pocket as if gripping a gun. They parted past Mir and. who'i I attempted to stop them, ran. I followed them, call in;.; to several paiei'sby to assist. "'boy scouts join IN HOT pursuit. Harold Wardrop. Isaac Stewart. Charles IMstcy and Raymond Hodgson, ail members mem-bers of the roy Scouts organization, were among the crowd lha t joined in the chase, and. while t he criminals easily ouUlisli need me. the scouts were able ! Jj-XK right onto their heels until they -J'd into the auto at the service sta- pcttve Harlow Lyons, off duty at the u an1 unarmed. wa"engagcd in paint-n paint-n yc, hou4e near (' service station. , It-acted by t ( outs of the pur-O'ong. pur-O'ong. ran .hi station Just in .o" to see the men ilimh aboard the ,s0n lun-hine. which was starting 0u'lh o Ninth Ka-st after having taken """" Cutinucd on Pago Two.) their pictures in our rogues' gallery," I Chief of Police J. Parley White night, "but he could not recall tl names from memory. We will search rogues' gallery and Lyons will atte to identify ' the photographs. W confident we will apprehend the uN and it is practically certain that will be found to be ex-convicte." we reached that point they ordered me to stop, and, after commanding us not to watch them, but to hurry back to the city, they disappeared through the fields in a northwesterly direction. "We had taken a supply or gasoline and oil at the service station, and I had barely thrown the car into low gear, when the men appeared and made a flying leap onto the running board, each sticking a gun up to my head and telling me to drive at full speed straight south on Ninth East. Of course, I complied. When we had proceeded a short distance there was a slight delay, but we were soon under way again. I did not know that tho 1'uiiL.c pciLiui was eo ciose oenina us, oe-cause oe-cause neither, I nor Mrs. Allison dared to turn around and look hack. I did not learn until we arrived at the police station sta-tion that the shot fired by one of the bandits did not strike anyone, and I feared somebody had been killed or wounded." Soldier Joins in Chase. George Herzog, a soldier attached to the prison guard at Fort Douglas, who resides at 947 East Fourth South street, told the police that one of the men ran through his yard while they were en route from Judge Bramel's home to the service station, where they seized the Allison auto. Herzog joined in the pursuit, and might have been able to effect a capture had he thought to provide himself with a loaded shotgun that stood just inside the doorway of his residence. In the excitement, ex-citement, however, he joined the chase without stopping to secure the weapon. "Detective Lyons tells me that he recognized both men, and that we have GH KIDNAP CAR 10 ESCAPE (Continued from Page One.) a supply of gasoline. Lyons and Agaard attempted to reach the car and grapple with the men when one of them fired, the bullet striking the asphalt paving between the feet of the would-be rescuers, and, glancing off, buried itself in the woodwork wood-work of the service station. UINLY ONE MAN AT HEADQUARTERS. Lyons at once telephoned to police headquarters, but the only man available avail-able at the time was Police Chauffeur Pierce, ail other officers bein out on other calls. The old patrol auto, not capable of exceeding forty miles an hour in speed, was the only available police machine. Pierce, together with G. J. Knapp, started for the scene immediately in the patrol, picking up Patrolman E. S. Dal-ton Dal-ton at State and Third South streets They arrived at the service station corner cor-ner in time to see the Allison machine disappearing westward around the corner cor-ner of Fifth South, it having been delayed de-layed for several minutes just north of Fifth South when something went wrong with the engine. One of the bandits evidently familiar with the mechanism of the car. left the machine for a moment to tinker with the engine, while the other kept Mr. Allison and his wife covered with liis weapon. The patrol, driven at the highest speed attainable by Pierce, who opened the throttle wide, swung in behind the commandeered com-mandeered car and continued the pursuit for about two miles, but the Allison machine, ma-chine, capable of perhaps twice the speed of the police machine, drew steadily awav until it was lost In the distance. Mr. Allison's Story. "They made us drive to a point about five miles west oi State street on old Twelfth South. Mr. Allison told the police po-lice when he appeared at headquarters to report his experience, "and kept their pistols to our heads all the way repeatedly re-peatedly calling for more Fpeed When |