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Show DARING ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY. Two Men Attempt Hold-up Game in Heart of Salt Lake City in Daylight. Salt Lake City. On the stairway of the Commercial club building, two men attempted to rob Cashier Sweet of the Pullman company at 8:15 o'clock Saturday morning. The very boldness and unexpectedness of the attack came near causing the success of the plans of the robbers. Mr. Sweet attempted to put up a fight when ordered to throw up his hands, and was struck over the head with the revolver. His cries, however, scared the hold-ups away, and they failed to get the $1,600 on the person of th?ir intended victim. Two men, J. H. Cummings and W. O. Rose, have been arrested, and it Is regarded as positive that they are the guilty men. Cummings is a railway rail-way fireman, out of employment, and Rose is a "peanut butcher." |