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Show FRER KING. WHEN HELD UP, KNOCKS OUT ROBBER When a lone highwayman met Fred King and wife last night and, taking hold of the Denver & Rio Grande engineer, en-gineer, said. "Mr. Man. you are the man I'm looking for." he little realized realiz-ed that he was addressing a fellow with a punch A moment later he was sprawled out in the gutter unconscious unconsci-ous Mr. King and wife had been visiting visit-ing relatives and, stepping off a Washington avenue car at the corner of Twenty-Bevenfh street at 11:20 p. m . were proceeding along the south side of Twenty-seventh toward their homo at 164 Twenty-seventh, when the bold highwayman popped from behind a tree in the Intense darkness Mrs King had gotten a few feet ahead of her husband, who had started to light a cigar. When the robber made known his mission, quick as a flash the railroad man sent a telling blow to the holdup's chin The stranger spun around and fell flat In the gutter. gut-ter. As good measure. Mr. King gave him one or two well placed kicks and, getting no response, rejoined his wife, leaving the robber to his misery. Mrs King saw the man approach her husband in the light of the match, but fearing that if she gave an alarm, the robber might use a gun if he had one, remained a 6ilent witness to the attempted holdup. When the amus ing end came, Mrs King said, "Dad, have you killed him," and Dad replied, re-plied, "I hope I have " They would have telephoned the police, po-lice, but there were no lights In nearby near-by houses and their own phone at home had been taken out The highwayman is described as tall and well dressed and may be the same man who held up Dr. H B Forbes Monday night on Grant ave nue between Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth streets, on |