Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1912 — Two Utah Girls Hold Up a Stag Car [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Two Utah Girls Hold Up a Stag Car

SALT LAKE CITY. —Two unmarried young women, masked and hfavily aimed, robbed -the stag car on the Shriners’ special train at 2 o’clock the ether morning a few minutes after the train pulled out at Salt Lake City. Several shots from revolvers were fired at each entrance to the car and fifteen badly frightened men on the inside began a mad scramble to find their revolvers and to conceal their purses. Their revolvers, however, had been taken from the car While they were uptown celebrating. As the men matje a dash, to get ont of the car they were met at the doors with threats and a liberal display of revolvers. - : , “We are not looking for money. We are looking for bachelors,” the two women explained.

Dr. L. A. Corwin of Goffs, Kan., and A. L, Swearingen of Kansas City, Kan, the only two bachelors on the ear,' pleaded. “Save ns, men. It’s leap year and we are in Utah, too.” "Come with us," the two train robbers demanded. The two* bachelor* were led to the. observation ear, where several of the unmarried young women were assembled. Dr. J. F. Hereford, the official auctioneer, mounted a box. He placed, his hands on Doctor Corwin’s shoulder. “This is to be a bargain day In bachelors, young women,” Doctor Hereford explained. "This handsome noble-has a kiss as sweet as the perfume of any orange blossom. I guarantee he can weather the storm of the roughest marital sea as he crossed successfuly the hot sands of the desert to the mystic shrine. It’s true he never paid grocery bills and probably never win. How much an X bid?” . To the disappointment of the two bachelors, there was not a bid. The two bachelors, ■ heart-broken and dejected, were placed in seclusion od the train.