Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1915 — GIRLS GIGGLE AT ‘HANDS UP!’ [ARTICLE]

GIRLS GIGGLE AT ‘HANDS UP!’

Highwayman's Command Strike* Young Ladies as Being Excruciatingly Funny. Spokane, Wash. —The command of a highwayman to throw up their hands was so excruciatingly funny to the Misses Elsie and Emily Bergman that they giggled and passed on. They were going north on Hamilton street, near Mission avenue, when confronted by. the man with the gun at 11:15 o’clock at night. “I mean it,” he declared. “11l dump it in your hand,* said Emily, emptying her. purse. He refused to take the two cents that comprised Elsie’s resources. The girls were still giggling when visited by Chester Edwards, city detective, at their residence, No. 1405 Hamilton street