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Show BOLD ROBBERY IN " YELLOWSTONE PARK FIVE COACH-LOADS OF TOURISTS VICTIMS OF HIGHWAYMEN IN NATIONAL PLAYGROUNDS. Highwaymen Met With No Opposition Because of Fact That No Firearm! Are Allowed In the Park--Two Suspects Under Arrest. Livingston, Mont. A party of twenty-five tourists, including United States Senator James H. Brady of Idaho, was held up in Yellowstone park on July 9 by three highwaymen. One of the tourists, a New Yorker", named Rice, was fired at when he jumped down from a stage coach and ran back to warn members of the party following In other coaches. The bullet fired at Rice flattened Itself against a rock nearby. Rice sped on and the bandits, realieing that the sound of the shot would act as an alarm, fled into the woods. Soldiers from all parts of the park were ordered by telephone to the scene of the robbery, and two suspects were put under guard. The highwaymen met with no opposition oppo-sition because no firearms are allowed In the park. The scene of the hold up Is In a heavily wooded section, where there are numberless peaks and bluffs. The coaches left Yellowstone early Friday morning. They had gone fifteen milea when they were halted. The bandits did not stop the first coach, but the others were held up one after another, and then were ordered or-dered to drive on. The coaches were making for the Fountain hotel, where the tourists .were tr have their luncheon. lunch-eon. Several of the tourists took the hold-up as a joke at first, but the bandit's ban-dit's rifle convinced them otherwise. Among the passengers who lost their money and jewelry were many women. |
