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Show Victims Turn Tables on Young Desperado j and He Is Caught1 ! 6 Working Men Riding on Short Line Train Forced. To Yield Valuables; Holdup Man Shoots at One i i ! I After teiToriziruj several railroad men early this morning on a i I freight train between Cache Junction and Brigham by holding them i up at the point of a gun, shooting at one and threatening .to killj ! them instantly if they did not obey his every command, the adven-1 tures of William Rodgcrs, 26 years of age, were ended abruptly when he reached Ogden. The local police nabbed him at 6 .05 a m. His depredations kept the telegraph wires hot along the Oregon Short Line railroad between Brigham and Ogdcn shoitly after he had started through the train 1 Y hen arrested at t lie union station he iiad in hi."- possession Ihe money i and watch he had taken and was positively identified an the robber at police headquarters this forenoon According to the t Ic tims Rodgers boarded the train at Cache Junction HOLDS I P MEN Shortly after the train waa under way he entered an open, ar iu which Gflnian Fikstnd rff RexhrnTg, Ida., und ' his cousin. Gordon Flkstad, of the isanie place were, riding with J. I Parish of Topeka, Kan and Robert Bass of Alabama, men thai had been employed on the railroad and were going "to Salt Lake. According to Gil man Flkstad the j first word Rodgers uttered as he . stepped into the open car at Its l nd iwith the .38 caliber gun in his hand; 'was: I K. ach for the sky and bo damn i .quick about It." He then proceeded In a leisurely 1 manner to search each Individual, I taking $1 .tmj. spm :.ma!l change, ifrom the pockets of Parish; $1 and' some change trom the pockets of ' Bass, and and borne change from (the pockets of Gordon Flkstad, HQ I I also got a watch. I Gllman Flkstad said he had made up his mini to tackle th - robber, but at his first move Rodgers shot at! his feet, the bullet from the gun pass-ting pass-ting through the rubber on his left sooe and Just grazing the shoOloather. I He Ho n took from Gilman Fiksta I his watch and warning the nun thutl tiic first move they made, to either get off the train which was running be-' twebn Bngh.ir.i anJ Cache junction; at tho time he would kllk he loft the car and went ahead t.wa.d the Iron; end of the train. OTOERS ROBBED. In another tar he &6id ujj Robert Tamarest. o years of age, ,108 Concord Con-cord avenue. New London, Conn.; Robert Rob-ert Gordon f Antelope, Idaho, and Raymond Dryden. iTnj McGee street. Kansas City, Mo., securing from them in the neighborhood of $35 In cash. In the meantime the train had slopped at a small station and Parish. and the Flkstad men got to tho telegraph office and after telling their storv telegraphed th - adthoriBes up and down the line. Telegraphic auvices received from' Dewey, o Btation between Cache June-1 tion and Brigham, .scai that a man wu-s sittlnK in the WfUtlpg room. Although Al-though the description did not tally with that given oy the vcl.tlms and Parish and B.is, accompanied by railroad rail-road officials, boarded the tlrsi train and got off at Dewey BANDIT IDENTIFIED. As soon as Parish ana liass looked Into the waiting room they positively lil.ntilied Rode is as tho man Bofore tho authorities could be summoned, however, Kodgcr3 walked out into the clarkiu.-.s and Ji.ippeai oil. His description then was telegraphed to the Ogden police. lie had bought !a ticket for Salt lake. telling tho agent at Dewey that it was too cold to ilde on a freight train. Ho was arrested at the Ogden station by Sergeant C. E. Noble and1 I Detective L. V. Pack and Police Chauffeur George Finn after Sergeant (Noble covered him with a gun. i When taken to police headquarters 'and searched h hud the watch Stolen i Mini Gilman Flkstad, who before hi saw it, gave an accurate description bl jit to the police; the iiashllght lhy Isald he had . arried and about the 'amount of money minus the railroad fare for a ticket from Dewey to Salt ! Lake PISTOL IDENTIFIED, Another feature of the ldcntifwa-jtion ldcntifwa-jtion was the fact that when Gordon Kikat ol u.is asked to Identify the gun Used he walked Into the room at po-' po-' lice headquarters where a number of uns had been laid aide by sldo on (the table and without any hesltutlou 'picked out the Hopkins 38 caliber Bun that had been taken from Rodg- ta Identifying It positively as the gun used by him. Ho took It from a miscellaneous mis-cellaneous assortment or runs the police po-lice had laid on the table anions which were different makes and differ, dif-fer, nt caliber jjuns. Rodgers 1m charged with highway i robbery and Is being held for the at-rlval at-rlval of the authorities from Cache count and Box Elder county .a roo-bery roo-bery hnlnir occurred in each county. J according to the police, ) |