Deseret Evening News | 1908-12-02 | Page 5 | Alleged Hold up Jailed

S HOLD UP jAILED JAILED ercy cy Elliott J lot Negro With I I Hol Inu In iii 1 u a I S M l F P Hight employed ed as n n a a driver fol or the Bamberger Loal company and nL resIding nt ut Fourth West called at the th police station staLon lot last nIght light nl ht alid told n a 1 rather Ithe remarkable tor stor stony ot or a CL robbery himself helps the thc He lIe said salt he lie had Just been boon paid 71 7 and Intended Intel to use uc u j the money noney to send end his wife to Kansas fOl or the hell holl hollay hol days ay He said Raid ho he had visited saloons and was drinking and finally took Dok a 1 cag to go 10 to his homo home Ha ire said suld that lint luit two Uvo negroes and a C soldier got g Into he the cab with him but hut that ho he h did not noto object o jec to their thell presence The Tho ho cab to o Ninth West Vest cst and nd Second South street Itro t where declares Flight Hight ho was dragged drugged from rum tho the vehicle by the tho thi two colored men nicil and while the tho soldier solier stood by WIS robbed of or tho the 71 70 1 Shortly after Inel telling the th strange tale talc Patrolman Howel arrested a negro nero named mined Percy Elliott Elott and the th are ale arenow tow now now looking for COl tho the other othO negro ne r and alid Tho The cab driver was WIS located and irid admitted that th the robbery had taken aken place and anti Identified an as anne ono one ne of tho tue men In tile the cab cal The Tho ho colored man denied this lual was lIS unable to o positively Identify him hIm this tills morning Elliott Is being held pending further gallon