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Show Merrymakers Held up On Saltair Line Robbtr Thrusts Gun in Face of Pissmgir; Wiapon Dis- ehariid, Three Injured ROBBER KNOCKED FROM TRAIN 'Excursionists In Wild Panic While Cleveland Porter Grapples With Holdup Salt Lake City, Aug. fi. Displaying bravado that rivals anything of Its kind in the recent history of train robbers In Utah, a lono highwayman held up the Salt Lnko bound Saltair train Immediately west of tho Jordan river at 11:3d o'clock last night, In which ho shot nnd slightly wounded three passengers, nftcr ho had forced a dozen others Into surrendering their valuables. Those wounded nie Cleveland Porter, Por-ter, 212C Washington avenue, Ogdon, a railway mall clerk, who was shot the lower palm of tho vlght hand and tho left thigh; Mrs. D. P. Felt, wife of tho proprietor of the Davis county Argus, loft thigh grazed, and Mrs, Thomas Hodder, 7C South Eleventh Kast street, top of right car nipped by bullet. Making his escape after ho had been knocked from the running board of tho open coach he held up, the train robber dashed west over a section of 1 broken country. At 2:30 o'clock this morning James Mays, thlrty-slx years of ago, who claims to be an automobile repairer, was arrested at (ho roundhouse near the Jordan river and South Temple street, suspected of being tho train bandit. Mays says that he was on tho coach that was held up, but makes tho defense that he was knocked off In tho scuffle between Cleveland Porter Por-ter and the real bandit. Tho arrest was made by Lieutenant It. L. Shannon Shan-non and Patrolman David Crother and II. A. Calton. Mays was slightly dazed when arrested, but showed no other marks of having been In a fight. The police and members of tho sheriff's office seemed posltlvo at 3 o'clock this morning that Mays can bo Identified as the bandit. |