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Show High-wayinan Shot Dead. Seattle, Wash., Dec. 29. Two masked men held up a Ballard street car at 11 o'clock last night. There were eight passengers on board, and a regular fusillade of shots was fired. One of the passengers, C. E. Plimpton, inside the car, opened fire on the highwayman entering from the .rear, and three shots were returned. One broke Plimpton's arm and the other entered his breast. A stranger standing on the front end of the car, which was first boarded, cried out, "Look out, I am laying for them," and fired. At the first shot the robber on the front end reeled from the car and fled to the woods. After the firing on the rear end ceased, the second robber took to the woods. Bullets passed through the clothing of two other passengers. The robbers secured nothing. Shortly after midnight the police found near the scene of the holdup the body of one of the two bandits. He had been, almost instantly killed by a bullet from a passenger's pistol. The body is still unidentified. |