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Show BEUEVf WESTfALL MAY BE ROBBER WHO HELD UP STREET CAR Police Arrest Suspect In Connection With Crime on Jordan Bridge Line. Tony West fall, a laborer, 39 years old. ws arrested Lx JUolmam .Mika ririgr aid at I o'clock this morning on suspicion suspi-cion of having held up th crew of a Jordan bridge car at Eleventh West anl Second Hofth streots at It o'clock last night, taking $1.(0 from tha conductor. The members of the crew are P. B. Johns, conductor, and W. R. Rosier, mo-tnrman. mo-tnrman. Th car wsa being heUI at the end of th line until th regular time for depart ur. A tall, slim man with hi far masked with a handkerchief nteiod the car and leveled a revolver at th crew, commanding them to hold up ttielr hand. They thought for a moment thit a frien I was playing a prank on them and wr slow In obeying. The robber then became tTHV emphatic tn his dom-irxt and they obeyed. ." The conductor and motorman were compelled to stand up while th robber unfastened the conductor's bolt with the i'hnft ca rrter a t tached and t hen searched hi pockets. The motormnn's pockets were not searched, th robber thu rosing $1. - After searching th conductor Die robber backed- off the car and disappeared. The robber trembled violently while robbing th men. iJeteclIve Captain Rcckstewd and IV-tec IV-tec fives Wilson. C level sod and Howell n-rnt to th st-cne In the Greyhound and continued their search for several hours, without success. WcMfall. who was arrested ar-rested four Itours after the robbery. Is an Id to answer th description of th robber. |