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Show II FOUR HOLD-UPS I DURING THE 1 NIGHT "Keep jo t eyes on God and your hands up high' was Ihe command given fo four vlelinis of a quartette! o; holdups iast nlffin between 10 and' 11 o'clock. Within lho?e hours four! men notified the police that they had! been held up by a party of four men! w ho .'on described as hort meni With dark clothes ana raps pulled, down over their eyes" In over'- Instance the command piv-J en by the leader of the footpads was; the same. I The thieves made a flying trip . about town, each holdup being re-1 ported from a space of several blocks i from the others. The first report came into the station sta-tion at 1" o'clock and was from a man so excited he forgot to give his name The holdup occurred at Twenty-sixth street and Wall avenue, but the roh-1 1 its secured nnthinj; trora him. When the left they went up Twenty-sixth; street. The second report came in 15 min-i min-i L rtes later K Carlson reported that four short men had held him up al tap corner of Twentv-seventii street find Washineton avenue and secured ! $5. This morning Carlson's pocket -Look was found in the gutter near Twenty-eighth and Washington bj I Kornc Gale. I Earl Dinner? was stopped on Twenty-fourth street between Madison ami ' Jefferson avenues at 10: S5 o'clock, but the thieves secured nothing In search-Inc search-Inc him He save tta. --dine uescrip-I uescrip-I 1 tlon as the other victims. Dr R A. McCune was the fourth victim and proed to be the rtch-ett rtch-ett The four crooks ?tO).io-I r.he phv. s.elan near Poplar Heights on Twrn-t;--fourth street opposite the court house and secured from him a sold ; watch, and a bunch of keys to his rooms in the Ixwls Mock. After the robbery the gang went down i Twenty-fourth street to Washington ft avenue. ' I Dr McCune reported the matter to the police at once As soon as the re-rorts re-rorts enme In patrolmen and detectives detec-tives w ere detailed on the case, but I no arrests were made. The method of operating In all cases 1 was the same. The leader of the ;.nR held a revolver while two others searched the victim. The fourth man mood apart from the others and acted act-ed as a ' lookout." From their methods it is evideni ihat the holdups are experienced, and the police believe they have a desperate des-perate gang to deal with. The police have learned today that the holdups were at the Ogden room lng house last night, shortly before they set out to turn their tricks. They told the landlord that they would go I out ' to pet seme bed mon- Th description jelven bj the rooming house keeper tallies with that given! by the victims Charles Iverson, proprietor of the j Oak sa'oon on Twenty-fifth strec' , I n'.ates that four men answering their description were In his place last evenlnp. When a check wr,s ashed by patron the strangers followed the man from the saloon |