Show ahm first sandbagged sandbagger Sand bagged and left for dead in street V VALUABLE WATCH AND HIS MONEY MISSING Way waylaid lailand and knocked unconscious robbed and left lying for dead joseph plunkett one of the oldest and best known passenger engineers on the denver and logrande rio Mo grande was found stretched out on the sidewalk near his home in grand junction last saturday plunkett wab A returning to his home when he aaa as aa as fiaLl ted by alone a lono footpad and the attack v as so quick and sure that he had not time to get a look at the bandit the holdup was evidently eted behind a tree in a t dark portion of the street and when hen plunkett pasted jumped out behind him before the engineer had a chance to defend himself he waa struck a terri effic blow on the back of the head with ith some blunt instrument and he fell in a heap to the ground unconscious and bleed bleeding wg the footpad then went through hs victims pockets stole a valuable alu able witch some small change and made good his escape without bang detected although leeral people it is said were A ere the opposite side of the street at the time of the deadly assault some oung people who were returning home found plunkett stretched out on the sidewalk k fearing abat he had been killed they secured assistance and the injured en gincer was as soon revived he lie immediately notified the sheriff and the latter with the aw assistance istance of the police spent the night searching for the bandit but no trace of him has yet t been found plunket tt ra n not seriously asly hurt |