Show BATTLE WITH ROBBERS passenger killed by bandits who at tempted to hold up street cap car three masked robbers attempted to hold up a car on the los angeles pa ciale electric line running between los angeles and santa monica about a mile west ot of los angeles sunday night and after a pistol duel between C W henderson one ot of the gers and one of the robbers the other two highwaymen began shooting right and left through the crowded car one passenger was killed and three wound ed the robbers had placed an ob st ruction on the track which the motorman saw and slowed up the three men boarded the car commanding the passengers to hold up their hands and when one of them did not comply one of the robbers fired henderson was seated within six feet of the point where the robber boarded the car and having seen the obstruction he drew his revolver the instant the obber fired at the other man hender son opened fire on him shooting as fast as we ue could pull the trigger the robber then turned his gun upon henderson but as he did so he was seen to bend over and cry out as it if in pain then straightening up he began shooting at the bunch of pas who were huddled in the front seats one of his bullets struck ellis pearson in the left le leg hender son continued firing and the robber was seen to fall while this was going on on the out side of the car a tragedy was being enacted in the inside that portion of which Is fully the two rob bers who had entered the rear door commanded the passengers to raise their hands and most of them did so before any attempt could be maae by the robbers to search the passengers for their valuables the shooting began on the outside of the car then the other two robbers began shooting right and left into the crowd of pas with the result that 11 A griswold of manson la was kill killed ed and J C cunningham ellis pearson and dr C 11 bowers were injured |