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Show that time. Mrs. Rollow was passing the.' tabernacle, on the east side of the street, when she was struck over tho head with a sandbag and felled to the ground. Her purse was taken and hor rings taken from her lingers The injury to . her head and the accompanying accom-panying nervous shock was so .great that she waa confined to her bed for several days, and her nerves have ever since suffered from the incident. Strangely enough, Mrs. Hollow hag Hgured as the victim in threo robber-los- In lUin. while She was employed in Eener, the residence where she was rooming was robbed. Unluckily', she encountered the burglarR, and at the point of n guu was driven Into a room in which she waB locked as a prisoner, while the house was looted. As a consequence of her experiences the woman's health has been greatly affected and she is now under the care of a physician. Organized Gang. The police are making a strenuous effort to round up the crooks who are believed to be paying the state a visit vis-it just at this time and who are responsible re-sponsible for the number of holdups and robberies which have taken place (luring the past week. Robberies similar to the ones of this city have occurred in Salt Lake City, and It Is thought that an organized organ-ized gang of housebreakers are now working in the two cities. The Salt Lake ofliecrR are working in conjunction conjunc-tion with tho local police in an effort ef-fort to stop the robberies. rwi RECALLS HOLDUP SEVEN YEARS AGO Looting of the Home of A. J. Bullow by Two Burglars Last Evening and Narrow Escape of the Family Second Time Mrs. Rollow Has Been Face to Face With Armed Thugs. That his Ufo was saved by the intervention in-tervention of a brlndle cat is the belief be-lief of A. J. Rollow, the Grant avenue ave-nue barber, whose borne Is at 2237 Adams aenue wa3 robbed at an eaiiy hour last evening. It was the cat which prevented Rollow Rol-low from stepping directly into the room where th burglars were at work, and where one of the men stood ; guard with a cocked revolver. About 5:40 o'clock last night Mrs. Rollow and her little son left their ' home and went down town to meet Mr. Rollow. It was just 7:20 when Mr. and Mrs. Rollow anoVthe child returned re-turned home. The Rollows own a cat, a larpe, striped animal and a great pet of the family. As they entered the yard the cat met them and ran ahead to the rear door. This door enters the house from a partly en closed porch, and Tabby sprang upon the porch and purred for an entrance to the house. Mr. Rollow opiied the screen door and the cat pushed through the aperture. Not wishing the cat to enter the bouse. Mr. Rollow- stooped and picked up the animal and carried It from the porch Mrs. Rollow reached out to tke hold of the knob of the kitchen door and grasped instead the cold barrel bar-rel of a revolver. At the same instant a Hash from a burglar's lantern pierced pierc-ed the gloom and fell for one Instant upon her and then upon the face of the man who stood just Inside the portals. He had reached out past the unlatched door with his gun in hand, and it Is believed had Mr. Rollow encountered. en-countered. Instead of his wife, the housebreaker, the latter would have . discharged the weapon which he held in his hand. Had a Flashlight. Back of the flashlight Mrs Rollow saw the outline of the second thief, who had raised himself from the task of looting a bureau drawer when the footsteps of the family were heard uion the porch. The man who had pprang to the door was tall and angular, an-gular, and though his hat was pulled well down over his brow, it did not prevent the woman from catching a j full view of bis countenance in the llghtulngllke gleam of the pocl.et lantern. lan-tern. She remembered just such a face aa his and just such a gaunt, cadaverous ca-daverous figure she had fed the man in her kitchen only tho day lfore. Mrs. Hollow firmly believes that the man who stood at her door with the cocked revolver Is the same man who came to the house Sunday and asked for something to eat, and who was taken into the house and seated at the table and fed. Mrs. Rollow screamed. The bur-, glar did not shoot, but sprang farther far-ther into the room, keeping the doorway door-way covered with his gun. The second sec-ond man shut off the glow of his light and sprang toward the window on the opposite side of the room. Ills companion was behind him. Without any hesitation the man who had flashed the light plunged through the window glass, and after him plunged the second burglar. The crash of glass aroused the neighborhood. Burglar Falls. The men ran north and one of them in attempting to leap over a wire netting, which served as a fence at the corner of the lawn, fell and. although al-though he regained his feet at once, he did not recover his revolver, which up to this time he had held In hla hand. The men continued running I until they were out of sight In Mof-I Mof-I fatt's lane. I Mr. Rollow found the revolver where it had fallen, and near it were two carpenter chisels and a pocket comb. These were turned over to th I jiollcet The revolver is a Colt make of .3$ caliber. The chisels were no doubt a part of the robbers kit of , housebreaking tools. All was confusion In the house. Every Ev-ery room had been ransacked and the furniture was turned topsy-turvy, the contents of drawers lelng indiscriminately indiscrim-inately scattered. The boy's safe, In which the lad' was saving money to I be spent for Christmas presents, had I been broken open and the few dollars ; In small change which it had contained contain-ed dropped into the loot of the burglars. bur-glars. A chamois skin pouch In which Mrs. Rollow kept her kitchen money had been taken. A lady's gold filled watch, "Aalued at about $15, was stolen, and another watch of great sentimental value was also taken. This last named timepiece was an heirloom of the family and was more than 100 years old. It was of German make. The rim was of pure gold and the back of turquoise set with pearls. The intrinsic alue of the watch would perhaps not exceed $r.o, but to Mrs. Rollow Its worth would mount Into the hundreds. Nervous Shock. Since the robbery Mrs Rollow has been in a serious condition from nervousness, ner-vousness, bordering upon a complete collapse. The strain upon her nervous ner-vous system was heightened by the fact that she has never fully recovered recov-ered from her experience of seven yars ago, when she was held up and robbed on Washington avenue. At |