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Show 25IH STREET CAR ROBBED BY MASKED DUO; $22.50 TAKEN Whllo one masked bandit yanke.j I the trolley from the wire, his companion com-panion armed with a nlckle-plated revolver, boarded a darkened Twenty-fifth street car near Polk avenue at 11 30 o'clock last night and relieved re-lieved the conductor. J. E. Hope, of his money changer, containing about Jls of company money and then took $4.50 from the conductor's pockets. , The two then disappeared In tho darkness, taking with them the reverse re-verse leer, without which Hope could not close the door, nor start the car. 1 Hope Immediately went to police I headquarters where he reported the 1 robbery - 111s description of the men tallied with the description of two of the trio that robbed tho Continental j ill company service station at Thirty-fifth Thirty-fifth street and Washington avenue ave-nue early Saturday morning of $2-1 40. I Hope was completing his run eastward east-ward on the Twenty-fifth street line and had reached the 1400 block when the holdup took place. Police officers were Immediately assigned to round up suspicious characters char-acters and take them to the station for questioning. |