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Show MASKED BANDITS ENTER SAN PEDRO TRAIN AND ROBMANPISTOL POINT AT THE OREGON 80IORT LINE DEPOT, IN FULL GLARE OF THE ELECTRIC LIGHTS, TWO MASKED MEN ENTERED A SALT LAKE1 ROUTE PASSENGER TRAIN AND WITH PISTOLS AT A PASSENGER'S PASSEN-GER'S HEAD, ROBBED HIM. THEN THEY ESCAPED. Greek to throw up his hands. The order, or-der, backed, by the revolver, was promptly obeyed. The Greek asserts that as soon as his hands were in the air one of the two men grabbed them an the other quickly quick-ly went through his pockets, relieving him of $104.50. . The trick was turned so quickly and-with and-with so little noise or fuss that none of the other passengers on the car had an idea of what was happening.' The two robbers left the car as quickly as possible. Police on the Scent. The matter was at once reported o the police, and several detectives were set to work on the case. The Greek was able to give a good description of at least one of the men. with the result re-sult that Cramer was arrested a few hours later on the charge of being one of the two. This morning Erlantis appeared be- A hold-up and robbery occurred on a train of the Salt Lake Route at the Oregon Short Line depot about 9:30 last evening as a result of which C. E. Cramer, 23 years old. is in the city Jail, having been arrested by the police early today. At noon today a complaint was sworn to before the County Attorney charging Cramer with robbery. The complaining complain-ing witness is John Erlantis, a Greek who runs a butcher shop at Garfield. According to the statement made by the Greek he boarded the train at the depot with the Intention of returning to Garfield. There were but few. passengers passen-gers in the car at the time. Robbers on the Scene. A few minutes later two men entered the car, walked down, the aisle until they came to the seat occupied by the Greek. One of the two pulled a re-volver re-volver from his pocket and ordered the fore the County Attorney and swore to a complaint charging Cramer with robbery. rob-bery. So far the other man has not been captured. Followed the Victim. It is the belief of the police that the two men watched the Greek while he was In a number of saloons In the city I and found out that he had a roll of monsy. That they followed hlin from the business section of the city to the depot, but did not see a chance to turn the trick. J fter thu man had entered the car, anU seeing but few passengers on the same, they decided to take a chance. |