Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-05-21 | Page 7 | Highway Robbers

I HIGHWAY ROBBERS Highway robbery is becoming eo common in New York stale thai a Judge has expressed regrei he cahno fiV the death penalty to those fOUBtd gu.lty of i he crime ' None of our highway la lreed bf robbers or potential robbers," said tne Judge, "aud the legislature should make tins on of robbery a capital oi feu.se. Years ao 112 crlpes were Mated Mat-ed as capital offenses, and il would be well if we added hlghwa) and other oth-er robbery to the LI -' Highway robbery has takmi from au tomobiling in many eastern districts much of its pleasure. Near a number of the larger cities, where the holdups hold-ups quickly tan get back to their haunt, driving a car is a source of real danger. This form of outlawry may have to be handled as was horse stealing steal-ing in the west in frontier days. Then a horsethlef was tried by "vigilantes" and left dangling from the nearest tree.