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Show LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25. Yelling like Indian warriors and firing promiscuously promis-cuously from pistols in both hands, two masked bandits boarded an Inbound In-bound beach suburban car on the out skirts of Santa Monica shortly after G o'clock tonight, and after robbing 22 passengers and seriously wounding, one of them, were routed and forced' to flee by a single shot. This shot wounded one of tho robbers, who was subsequently captured His companion escaped in the brush and Is being hunted tonight by a sheriff's posse, with ovory prospect of being captured before morning. One Passenger Wounded. Harry Mitchell, of Santa Monica, who was wounded in tho fusillade, was shot in the neck. His injuries were pronounced serious by tho surgeons sur-geons of tho Receiving hospital here. The bandit who was shot received the bullet in the cheek. Herbert Harlan, the man who shot hipi, was struck by a bullet, which pierced his coat and fell harmlessly into his vest pocket. Yelled Like Indians. The car, on which more than fifty people wero coming to the city from the beach, had just left Santa Monica Mon-ica and was approaching Tokio station sta-tion when the bandits, wearing bandana ban-dana handkerchiefs over tho lower portions of their faces, swung) aboard, one at each end of tho car. With a yell, they began shooting through the roof and sides of the car. Tho passengers pas-sengers were terrorized and submitted submit-ted without a murmur, when one of the bandits ordered tho motorman to tako off his cap and pass througk the car collecting money and valuables in it. Harlan said afterward ho had not thought of resisting until he saw Mltcholl fall out of his seat, woun! ed, and felt the blow of the samo bullet bul-let which pierced Mitchell's neck, and, crashing through the car partition, parti-tion, struck him just over the heart. Hit One of the Robbers. Harlan drew his revolver under cover of his coat and fired through the doorway, Instantly 'the smaller of the two bandits reeled and let his weapon fall. Blood spurted from holes in both cheeks, showing that Hurlan's bullet had gone through his face. He grasped an arm of his companion and both raced through the car to the front and leaped off. It was not known how much the robbers rob-bers obtained from tho 22 victims. Tho holdup tonight was the fourth street car robbery hero In less than a month. Wounded Bandit Captured. The wounded bandit was captured at 9:30 o'clock when he boarded a car to come into tho city for medical treatment. The wound in his cheek betrayed him. When brought to the county jail hero he gave the name of Roy Fox and said he was 19 years old. Ho refused to give any information concerning the identity of his companion in the holdup. |