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Show AMAZONS COMMIT HIGHWAYJtOBBERY A bold highway robbery was carried out last evening by three colored Amazons who were finally captured and when confronted at the police statlou with their erstwhile victim an Italian laborer suddenly set npu hlvn again knocking him to the Moor btiore officers could luteiTere. Officers Chambers and Gowan were attracted about 10 o'clock by a weeping weep-ing Italian who approached them running Iiom the direction of Electric Elec-tric alley and who complained that ho had been knocked down aud robbed by three colored women. Tho man, whose name Is K. Ftllppi, stated that he had been accosted by ono of the women but after parleying with her for a moment, ho had started start-ed to walk away, whereupon the woman wom-an had grabbed him In her arms and began going through his pockets. Fillppl declared that he resisted with all his strength nnd was getting the best of the struggle when two othr colored women suddenly appearej on the scene, one of them striking him in the Jaw and knocking him to the ground. Before he could recover hlm-Kll hlm-Kll tho women abstracted $10 In currency cur-rency from his pockets ami made their escape. Tho 'officers hnd no more than heard Flllppl's story when a colored damsel was discovered running down the street nearby and the victim recognizing hei as one of his assailants, assail-ants, assisted Officer Vance In capturing cap-turing her. The latter wns hooked at the station sta-tion under the name of Molly Peters, nnd locked up. In the menuwhllo Officers Chambers and Gowan had trailed her two dusky companions to a residence of colored people on Twenty-fourth street and there arrested ar-rested them. Before leaving the house with their prisoners. Officer Chambers found one of the negresses secreting a rock half as big as her head which she had picked up before entering and he said that during the trip to the station she made repeated efforts to secure possession of his rcvoh er. Upon reaching the station the prisoners were booked as Lottie Davis and Minnie Woodson. While their names wore being entered, Fllippl approached ap-proached and became Involved in an altercation with them over the money he accused them of taking from him. The Woodson woman retorted with the assertion that, he had attempted to draw a knife ou her. Iu the heart of the argument the Davla woman, who weighs In tho neighborhood of 200 pounds, stepped up and dealt Fillppl a blow which felled him like au ox and cut a considerable gash under the left eye. The negresses were at once hustled into their cells and it is probable that a charge of highway robbery will bo lodged agalost them All are strangers strang-ers in the city. |