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Show YOUNG MAN ARRESTED: :7- AS . LONE. HIGHWAYMAN Denver Police Claim to Have in Custody Man Responsible Re-sponsible for Saloon HoId-Ups. '(" ( ' ' ' ' ' - r . DENVER, Colo., Feb. 27. The police have arrested Garfield Snyder, a local young man, 23 years old, on suspicion of having operated as the "lona highwayman" highway-man" who has held up and robbed a number of saloons in this city recently. During one of these hold-ups on Tuesday night last Officer John Ritchie, who attempted at-tempted to capture the much-feared robber was shot and dangerously wounded by him. Snyder, when confronted by three detective at his home, uetly aub. ! raitted to arrest. He has been arrested before, it is said, and .charged with theft, and It is also claimed has served time in the State reformatory. The proprietor pro-prietor of the aaloon'that was held up on Tuesday and a friend of RitchiVs, who was with him at the time, it. is said, have both identified him as the robber. Jt Is'alsQ said that property taken from the saloon was found in a trunk in Sny-der'a Sny-der'a room. ; ''' .' , i f ' ' |