Inter-Mountain Republican | 1906-10-26 | Page 10 | Held up by Masked Robbers

HELD IID UP BY DY MASKED ROBBERS ROllERS I r Robert Burns Loses Railroad Tickets and Fifteen Cents Robert Hobert Hums nuan 2401 I South Seventh East street was held up and anel robbed b by two masked men with revolvers ro at atthe atthe atthe the corner of or Third South and amal West Vest Temple streets shortly after midnight ht Wednesday The men inca secured two tickets to Los Angeles and 1 15 Ii cents from Burns and then directed him to take a fast Cast wall walk towards town Burns who was aM as on his way home homo was wal accosted by hy the th men pleasantly at first and a n as h he stepped up UI to them one of or tho the men pulled d a n gun un A and I leI shoved sho it under Burns Burns' face It was then that Burns Bunts knew that he was held hell I up Up to that time In the tIme half hal darkness he hC thought that thal he was vas be being being heIll he- he ing Ill addressed b by some of oC his friends Ho He gave o a description o of the time men to the tle police and 1111 thc they ar are working lIlS- lIlS on 01 the ease case He lie did not have hav an opportunity lo to 0 get gel t a good look 1001 at the mon men because of the tIme dall darkness n but hut said ald that both were CIO o of medium lu and wl weighed hed about 1 iO pounds each Both Bolh wore wor what appeared to bo be dark darl clothes and antI dark darl masks malis