Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-06-07 | Page 13 | Taxi Driver Robbed of Money and Car

II DBiVEn ROBBED of mm car Salt Laker Is Roughly ! Handled After Arswer-inj Arswer-inj Call to Ogden. Ipooi.il to The Trlhuno. OOPKN, .Tune fi. James Hampton, a f;:ro taxi driver of Salt Lake, was held up, ragged, bound hand and foot, robbed of ISO in cash ami his taxi and left at the. ide of tho road ail nlht In the southern ' a r t of 1 1 1 o city, w 1 : o r e h o wn s found at o'clock tiiis mom ins nnd taken to the otu o staiion. where he made n report pen the attack which, lie says, was made "v two men and a woman about 11 o'clock ;st niiiht. Aefortlint? to the statement made to 'ie police this mornms. Hampton revived re-vived a ea'l in Salt UiUe asking him to me to O.uou for three passengers. aiv.pton came to the city, nnd at the jrner of Twenty-fourth street and Wash-is; Wash-is; ton avenue he was hailed by two men mi a woman, who, a; ter entering the ii. told Hampton to drive to the Coun-v Coun-v ehib. Yhen Hampton reached a lonely part of ie road south of the Country club he as ordered to stop. The men and woman m out or' t he car and then one of the en. pointing a revolver at Hampton, rnmanaed him to leave the car. He as then bound hand and foot and l Sired, after which his money and valu-Dles valu-Dles wore taken. The trio then en-red en-red the taxi and drove back toward the ty. The victim was rolled to the side ' the road, where ho remained until a isserby discovered him this morning and leased him. Hampton gave the police a pood de-Tintion de-Tintion of his assailants. Their cie-ripf.on cie-ripf.on a nd that of the taxi also were ven to the officers in all the near-by wns and in the surrounding states.