Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 190, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1921 — Page 2

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MERGER URGES ITS ESTIMATE OF SECURITIES Indiana Electric Corporation Clings to $18,500,000 Figure. ATTORNEYS FILE BRIEF The contentions of the Indiana Electric Corporation in favor of its application to issue approximately $18,500,000 fin securities for the purchase of seven public utility plants in Indiana are set out in a brief filed with the public service commission today by attorneys for the corporation. The brief contends that the physical property of the seven concerns is worth $18,726,773 and that material and supplies and working cash capital amount to $650,000, making a total valuation of $19,376,773. EARNINGS FOR YEAR $1,478,722. The earnings for the year ending Oct. 31, 1921, were $1,472,722, according to the brief, while the fixed charges of the new corporation would amount to $943,550 annually, leaving $525,172 for depreciation and common stock dividends. The brief makes the following statements of benefits to be derived from the consolidation. “The evidence shows that upon authorisation by the commission of the securities sought, the Indiana Electric Corporation will proceed at once to construct a large power station in the coal fields on the Wabash River, and that the construction of this plant is an integral and essential part of the general plan to purchase and consolidate the constituent properties of the Indiana Electric Corporation. It was shown that anew plant must be constructed in the near future in order to supply the needs of the constituent companies. ECONOMY OF MERGER SKT OUT. “It was shown that the cost of coal to the Indiana Electric Corporation at Its plant In the coal fields would be reduced from the present cost at Indianapolis of $4.13 per ton to $2.07 per ton, and that the central plant would produce one K. W. H. of electrical energy with 2.25 pounds of coal, as compared with the present average consumption of the constituent companies of four pounds or coal per K. W. H. In other words, the cost of coal would be cut one-half and the consumption of coal would be cut one-half. It was shown that there two economies alone would result in net savings of approximately $700,000 a year. It was further shown that these economies would result in rate reductions to the consumers in the various cities as well as improved and more reliable service."

DANZIG NOTES TRADE REVIVAL Racial Enmity Is Forgotten Amidst Prosperity. DANZIG, Dec. 20.—Following more than two years of commercial lethargy, Dansig as a free city now shows signs of an Industrial revival. The population of the city is mostly German, although the Poles arc in the majority in the city’s suburbs. The two nationalities as Danzigers nov: have a common interest, and racial prejudices have been largely forgotten in working for the municipal prosperity. The port Is governed by a harbor board, of which five members are Poles, five Germans, while the chairman is a Swiss. Should any point of disagreement arise which the chair cannot settle it is referred to General Haking. the British •Commissioner for the League of Nations, whose decisions are usually accepted by both sides without question. The harbor board la concerned with the regulation of the shipping, the dredging of the harbor and with such steps as may lead to the extension of trade. Before 'he war Danzig was a great center for the grain and sugar trade: gaunt warehouses tower up to the sky, once filled with sacks of grain, and barrels of sugar, now all too empty. Already, however, one feels the stir of reviving prosperity ; a civic spirit moves the Danzigers, German and Pole alike, a mutual forbearance and understanding have changed the atmosphere of the city. POLISH STATE RULES CUSTOMS. The customs at Danzig are under the control of the Polish State, which also is responsible for the railways running through the East Prussian corridor. This arrangement, the result of prolonged negotiations between Poland and Germany, has but lately been completed and, It la thought, will materially benefit Polish trade. The ambition of the city Is to rival Hamburg as a commercial port; already a cotton exchange is in being, and were it possible to build a Danzig mercantile marine the port would surely revive the prestige and the wealth it carried in the Middle Ages. But Danzig, like Industrial Poland, suffers teavily from the depreciation of the mark. Within the last month the exchange has depreciated, and the fluctuations are so rapid that It Is impossible for the business man to quote for the dispatch of goods, as what may be a reasonable figure on Monday may be a bankrupt price on Tuesday. It is this terrible uncertainty which hampers development of trade. The reasons for the fluctuations are many, but the chief cause la that millions of marks are In the hands of speculators outside Poland. Quite recently certain German banks sold Polish marks at a figure far below Warsaw rates of exchange, with the result that the mark fell 2.900 or 3.000. Economists insist that there is too large an issue of paper money. rOLE IS NOT WITHOUT DEFENSE. On this count, however, there is something to be said for the Pole. The check system is not in use, and it Is necessary to carry a large wad of notes for the ordinary expenses of dally life. The notes are made of such flimsy paper that after two or three weeks of circulation they literally fall to pieces, disintegrating in the band. This means that ao many millions of marks annually disappear, which reduces the government responsibility. One of the most interesting features of the port Is the camp for Polish Immigrants returning from America. During the last seven months as many as 50.000 have come back to their native land. I had a long talk with a Polish engineer's fitter employed in Pittsburgh. He had come home to settle his wife and family on a farm. When he had bought the land he proposed to leave it in the care of his two sons, youths of sixteen and seventeen. They would look after the family, while he went back to the States to accommulate further savings, which he would eventually invest in Polish soil. A typical American workman In manner and speech, one realized the strength of the feeling that brought him back to the country he had left as a boy. "America’s a great place,” he said simply, “but this is my native land.” Former Prohi Agent Sentenced and Fined MILWAITCEE, Wis.. Dec. 20.—8. TI. Herxog. former prohibition agent for Wisconsin, was today sentenced to seven years imprisonment and fined $16,000 by Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger in United States District Court. Heraog was convicted by a jury of accepting bribes.

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These are the men -who started Ireland’s successful fight for freedom that has culminated in the creation of the Irish Free State: Bottom row, left to right— L. Oiunell, M. Collins, C. Brugha, A. Griffith, Fresident De Valera, Count Plunket, E. MacXeill, W. Cosgrave and E. Bluthe. Second row—P. Maloney, I. MoSwiney, D. M. Mulchay, J. Doherty, J. O’Mahony, J. Dolan, J. McGulnness, O. O'Keefe, M. Staines, J. McGrath, Dr. Cusack, L. De Itolste, \V. Collvet and Father O'Flanagan, vice president of the republic. Third row—P. Ward, A. McCabe, D. Fitzgerald, Dr. Hayes, C. Collins, P. O'Malllie, J. O’Marra and B. O Higgins. Fourth row—J. McDonagh and J. McEntee. Fifth row—P. Beasley, K. Barton and P. Galligan. Sixth row—P. Shanahan and S. Etchlngham.

TAX BOARD AND ASSESSORS IN STATE SESSION Chairman Says All Should Know of Right to Protest Assessments. Ninety-four of each SIOO collected by the State as taxes is speut in the community from which it comes, John Brown, chairman of the State board of tax commissioners, said at the convening session of the twenty.first annual convention of the tux commissioners and the county today in the Statehouse. “County tax assessors should do every thing possible to enlighten the people as to their right to come before the State board and protest Itnprovunents which they believe are unnecessary,” he said. “Too many taxpayers of the State are ignorant of the fact that they have the right of appeal,” Mr. Brown continued. “If they don't appeal they have no argument against the amount of taxes they must pay,” he said. COMPLAINT MADE OF FARM ASSESSMENTS. In several counties during the past year, Mr. Brown said, complaint was made that the assessments against farming property was in excess of its true cash value. In these counties, and particularly among those who made the complaints it was later disclosed that the sale price which they obtained on their property was slightly less than the value made by the State commission. Many persons of the State are of the opinion that two valuations are placed on their property. This is not true, Mr. Brown said. “There is only one valuation made and that is for both sale and taxing purposes," he asserts. “There afe, however, some cases where two valuations are made. This is true in the valuation of the utility properties, through no fault of the State taxing commission. One valuation Is made by the public service commission for rate making rates, while the tax board makes a true cash valuation for taxing purposes.” The coming year will be one of the greatest in the history of tix officials, because, Mr. Brown said, there will be more intangible property put on the tax duplicate during that time than ever before, and it will be up to the county assessors to watch the amount of property that is put on the duplicates. “We are responsible to the people whether the tax rate for the next year shall be higher or lower, and that depends largely on the increase or decrease in the valuation of the property in the State," he said. Commissioner William Hough of the State board condemned the salaries paid the county assessors, making it very plain that the salaries should be in proportion to their responsibilities. Canadian Farmers’ Dollar Is Growing REGINA, Saskatchewan, Dec. 20. Price deflation is following an orderly course*. The purchasing power of the Canadian farmer’s dollar is steadly increasing. This increase has so stimulated trade that the volume of goods sold now equals that of preceding years. Surveys indicate that the cycle of prosperity has begun to revolve. The latest stimulant to the farmer's dollar is tue announcement of price reductions by two leading Canadian implement firms. The reductions average 20 per cent and apply to all finished implements stored at the various branches and to the new machinery being turned out. The plants have cut their production costs that amount. Importance of this reduction must be seen when it is considered that there are more than 40,000 tractors on western Canadian farms, that 31,000 of these have been purchased by the three prairie provinces in four years, and that development of the new agricultural districts necessitates the purchase of at least 10,000 tractors a year. Last year the total value of tractors in operation in the West was $21,000,000. Special tractor plows represented a value of $7,300,000. Clipping 20 per cent from the cost of new machinery, agricultural experts declare, means enlarged acreage next year. Reduction In prices of automobiles has stimulated that trade, although farmers hare not been as big purchasers this year as last. There are now In Saskatchewan 61,000 automobiles, an Increase of 500 per cent for seven years. Sale of automobiles has been enhanced by the comprehensive good roads program being carried out in connection with the Dominion government's $20,000,000 appropriation for main highways and market roads. Pile* Cored In 6 to 14 Days. Druggists refund money if PAZO OINTMENT falls to cure Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles. Instantly relieves Itching Piles. 60c.—Advertisement.

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Chinese Bandits Kidnap Wife of Sun Yat Sen and Demand $500,000 Ransom

SHANGHAI Dec. 20.—Madame Sun Yat Sen. wife of Sun Y’at Sen, president of the South China republic, has been kidnaped and Is being held in the mountains by her captors for $500,000 ransom. The kidnaping took plnce at Kswelllng in Kwangsl Province, the bandits disguising themselves ns soldiers. Madam Sun was en route to Join her MATERIALS TO BE GIVEN FAIR PLAY IN ROADS (Continued From Page One.) would mean a reduction of about $5,000 a mile in the cost of brick roads. He said that the last bids received for brick con struction, tiled about a year ago called for a cost of about $40,000 a mile. He expressed the opinion that the cost would be considerably under this figure now because of reductions in the price of labor and materials. Mr. Lyons would not express an opinion as to the added cost of concrete roads as a result of the new specifications. He said, however, that he did not believe the addition would be great. Recent bids for concrete construction with a 7-lncb slab over all amounted to about $26/100 a mile. With the addition to this price brought about by the new specifications for concrete and with the reductions in the price of brick roads brought about ny lower labor and material costs and the new specifications, there will be no very considerable difference between the costs of construction of the two types of roads. At the same time, with the new specifications for brick asphalt dealers will be given a look-in on road construction even if asphalt pavement is not used. TRIAL PROVIDED FOR KENTUCKY ROCK ASPHALT. There has been much agitation for the use of Kentucky rock asphalt and this has led to the commission consenting to try it in maintenance work. This asphalt is ’ .id cold. It is slated that gravel roads may be leveled and this type of asphalt applied at a cost of $15,000 to SIR.OOO a mile. State roads must be approved by the Federal Government In order that the State may obtain Federal aid. No difficulty from this source is expected, however, as Federal road men already have been consulted. BOOZE BUSSES 9 FATE WEIGHED Judge Anderson to Maks Disposal of 93 Seized Cars. The fate of ninety-three morally delinquent, booze bearing busses, running from battered old flivvers to dignified sedans, will be decided by Judge Albert B. Anderson, in Federal Court, Wednesday. These cars were seized by Federal officers In liquor raids between Jan. 17, 1920, when the eighteenth amendment went Into force, and July 1, 1921, when the amended State prohibition law, providing for the seizure of automobiles caught with liquor cargoes, became effective. In many instances intervening petitions have been filed by owners of the cars, or by automobile sales agencies, from whom the machines had been purchased on the part payment plan. These petitions set up that the owners had no knowledge of the purpose to which the machines were being put. Upon the success of their efforts to convince the court of their Innocence in the matter depends their chances of recovering the cars. All machines forfeited by the court will be sold at public auction later by Mark Storen, United States marshal. COMPROMISE ENDS SUIT. An agreed judgment has been entered into by John M. Garriott and the Indianapolis Street Railway Company which caused the dismissal of a $15,000 damage suit brought by Garriott in Superior Court, room 5. Judge T. J. Moll announced that a settlement for SSOO was accepted by the plaintiff. THE LADY AND THE DOG. LONDON. Dec. 20.—Milady will have to part w-ith her pet poodle when she rides in Brltiah railway trains hereafter. A court decision has held that dogs must ride in the guards’ van and not In the passenger coaches. SICKNESS ON INCREASE. LONDON, Dec. 20.—A1l local hospitals are crowded and stetf* are being taken to establish one thousand more beds. Unusunl weather conditions nre held responsible for the unprecedented strain on the hospitals.

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husband who is at the head of his armies marching toward I’ekln. She was to have taken charge of the Red Cross work of the Southern armies. Madame Sun Is well known in the United States. She is a graduate of the Methodist School at Macon, Ga. Her sister, Meillng Soong, Is a Wellesley College graduate. SOUTH CHINA DELEGATES ADMIT POSSIBILITY WASHINGTON, Dec. 20—Representatives of the South China republic here today attributed the reported kidnaping of Madame Sun Yat Sen, wife of the president, to a band of roving brigands. “Madame Sun was with her hnsband at army headquarters in Kwei -Lin, according to our last dispatches," sold one official. "It is barely possible she attempted to visit the interior of the country where bandits have been plying their trade for many months. It is quite possl tie, but until further advices are received we shall withhold discussion of its effects.” Monon Shops Will Close jSaturday Special to The Times. LAFAYETTE, Ind., Dec. 20.—The Monon Railroad shops here will close down indefinitely Saturday, throwing 300 to 400 men out of work. It wax announced today. The roundhouse department will be kept in operation by senior workers from all departments. The shops opened only last Friday after a month's shutdown. POLICE NOT NEEDED. TOKIO, Dec. 20.—Police precautions taken to protect, the United States embassy while two anti-American meetings were In progress proved unnecessary. The meetings called to discuss the naval ratio were attended by thousands, but expressions were in n moderate tone. Marriage Licenses Harry Mitchell, Oil City. Pa 32 Lucille Ernst, 3555 Salem st 22 Charles Lingle, 23 Richelieu Apts 43 Mary McDougnll, Noblesvtlle, Ind 45 Robert Cox, 888 N. Tremont st 39 Alice Hunter, 556 N. King av 26 Eugene Christie. 917 N. Alabama 5t.... 22 Virginia Cooper, 437 N. Alabama at.... 23 Harold Cox, 3134 W. Pratt st 23 Esther Drake, 3130 W. I’ratt st 18 -John Hayden, Washington. D. C 42 Maude Hatmaker, 1020 College av 85 Charles Stuart, New York City 25 Mabel Heuser, 2457 College av 23 Births Delbert and Dorothy Thomson, 2810 East Michigan, boy. Ernest and Della FuUcnwider, 2715 North Gale. girl. Grant and Mildred Adams, 1759 Morgan, girl. Fred and Martha Bergman, 723 East Ohio, boy. Howard and Catherine Ferguson, city hospital, girl. John and Anna Hall, city hospital, boy. Alvle and Ellen Emmelman, city hospital, boy. Arthur and Mary Stewart, city hospital, girl. i John and Hazel Garrett, 1217 Reistier, girl. Herschel and Bernice Robeson, 516 East Minnesota, boy. John and Susie Curran, 2356 Wheeler, boy. Melvin and Naoma Cain, 1743 Roosevelt, girl. Frank and Margaret Collman, 921 East Nineteenth, girl. Irvin and Leah Nickel, 618 Udell, girl. Albert and Ruth Parker, 1026 West Twenty-Eighth, girl. Herman and Amy Angrick, 1215 South Illinois, girl. Williard and Clara Troutman, 42 South Rural, girl. Eugene and Louise Foley, St. Viucent Hospital, boy. Ernest and Audrey Barney, St. Vincent Hospital, girl. Angell and Jennie Pappas, St. Vincent Hospital, girl. Boyd and Pearl Kasey, 3513 North Capitol, girl. Herman and Clara Grote, 152/ East Raymond, boy. Leslie and Flo Smith, 1475 Roosevelt, girl. Phillip and Antonke Bajt, 748 Warman, boy. Thomas and Edna Roberts, 206 Harris, I girl. Orville and Ethel Baker, 615 Caldwell ' girl. Deaths Ada Cross, 52, 1123 East Market, mitral insufficiency. Rebecca Leaehman, 22, 934 California, pulmonary Itiberctilosis. Willlatn Johnson, 51, 1123 Cornell, diabetes mellitus. Thomas Johnson, 57, 1032 North West, acute nephritis. Ilenrv C. Miller, 43, Central Indiana Hospital, paresis. Wayne G. Dicks, 1 month, 59 North Holmes, uremia.

SAYS HE SAW 12 ARMY MEN PUT TO DEATH (Continued From Page One.) me the day before the hanging." Taylor told of taking the man to a court-martial room at Is-Sur-Tille on orders from Major ltoss of California, on the Wednesday preceding the hanging. "There were some words spoken in hrenth by French officers and be was ordered taken back to a cell. The next day a Frenchman came and spoke to me in French,” Taylor said. ‘‘•What does he mean?' Blodgett asked me. “'lie says you're going to be hung tomorrow,’ 1 told him. “ 'Why, I haven't been tried yet—i haven't had a chance for my life,’ he replied. "Then the chaplain came. After that Blodgett told me to write to his mother saying ho had died of p .emuonta. "I saw the hanging ana then I wrote to his mother saying he had died of pneumonia. I got a reply from bis mother and have the letter yet." Under questioning by Senator Watson, Taylor said all the members of the courtmartial were French except one aud that Blodgett had no counsel. “After the hanging of Blodgett, I saw a major of the medical corps cut out his brains and his heart." “Did you see any other hangings?" asked Senator Shields, Democrat, Tennessee. “Yes, sir; that same afternoon I saw a negro hanged for killing a white mess sergeant." “How many in all did you see executed ?” persisted Shields. “Twelve," Taylor unswered. “How many white?” “Two." “When was the last of these executions?” “We left Is Sur-Tllle June 28, 1919. The last we saw was a week before that, but the gallows was there ready to hang more. Three colored fellows were hung a week before we left.” "Do you know whether any were tried by court-martial?” “I don’t know. One negro was working with a gang up to an hour and a half before he was taken away and hanged.” Colonel Bethel was permitted to question Taylor. “You personally aaw the hanging of these twelve men?" he asked. “Yes; five were hanged at Catrvp Wilson, a small cava ,-y headquarters st Is-Sur-Tille, and seven on the hill back of the hospital at Is-Sur-Tllle," replied Taylor. Senator Watson drew an admission from Colonel Bethel that a charge Watson had made at a previous heating that a soldier named Fay had been bayoneted through the heart on orders of a superior officer, was true. "On examination of the records, I find tho soldier. Fay, refused to carry a pack, and on the command ol an officer, a noncommissioned officer used the bayonet—unfortunately more severely than was intended,” said Bethel. Robert A. Harrison, Wilmington, N. C., said he was a member of the 7th Field Artillery, Battery C. “Did you see any hangings?" asked Senator Brandegee. "Not what you might call hanging parties. X saw lynching parties.” “What was the first ‘lynching party?' ” “In December, 1917, I was a 'runner.’ I saw a bunch of officers and men under a tree and took out my field glasses. I ;aw a man brought out and strung up over a limb. The man was a Mexican of the Sixteenth Infantry who had enlisted at. El Paso or Eagle Pass. "I saw the man's body later In the hospital with the rope around his neck. “I Inquired and found It was a case of those officers being cashiered out of the service or getting this man out of the way. “The Mexican, I was told, was going to give some information about these officers, connecting them up with some women. “How many men in the party?” asked Brandegee. “About thirty-five or forty—a good little necktie party.” “Tell us of the next case," asked Brandegee. "It was at a prison stockade —at a little party one night. A man who had a squabble with ‘Hard Boiled Smith’ was introduced to a rope and a tree—a nice little twilight party. I saw the hanging. His name, 1 think, was Benny Keen of Wilmington, N. C. The only report his mother ever received was that he was severely wounded In action. Many people of Wilmington have written to the War Department, but have got no further report on it." reslnoT soothinq and He&linq For 5k in_D is orders

Negro Fireman Testifies to Horse Power of Liquor Faces Board of Safety on Charge of Drinking on Duty.

A powerful Indorsement of the “kick” la somebody’s brand of “white mule” whisky wag given today by Ernest Rockhold, negro, firemen of pumper company No. 16, the negro company at Sixteenth street aud Ashland avenue, before the board of public safety, Rockholil was beiug tried on charges of drinking and stealing a razor. Hi testified he had not stolen the razor, but had taken a drink offered to him by Roy Pope, also a fireman of pumper company No. 16. until two weeks ago when he resigned because of the trouble in which Uockhold was involved. Pope, in giving Dim the whisky at the engine house said, according to Kookhold, that “the big hammer is going to drop about the first of the year and I don't know how I stand, but I want all you new boys to make good.” "He told me," said Kookhold, "that he didn't care much what they did with him because he could take a mop and a broom and a gallon of whisky and make a fortune. And I suppose he could, if the stuff worked on others like it did me. Boy, but it had a powerful kick!" CAPTAIN ALSO FACES CHARGE. Cupt. Clarence Miller of the same company was tried for failure to report the drinking and razor stealing trouble to his superior officer. The board fined 1 oth their pay during suspension, reprimanded them and then reinstated them. Another humorous touch was added to the board’s session when Patrolman William Mcßtirney was being tried on charges of getting drunk in the shoe shining parlor of William Mosby, 610 East Washington street, and shooting through the floor. William Steele, negro, testified that he walked Into the shining parlor and told Officer Mcßurney, “I know you." Mcßtirney pulled out a gun and shot at the floor near Stqele's feet, Steele said. Vhen Mcßurney said, according to the negro, that ho would kill anybody who said they knev him. “Do you know me?" Steele said MeBurney asked him. “What did you say?" a member of the board inquired. DIDN’T RECALL HAVING MET HIM. “I said, 'No sir, boss, I don’t know yon. I never seen you before,’" replied the witness. Mcßurney was dismissed from the police force. Ernest L. Kingston, named by Mayorelect Samuel Lewis Shank for chairman of the board of public safety; James E. Annitage, appointee for Democratic member, and Edward G. Sourbier, appointee for Republican member of the board, and Oscar Wise, appointee for executive secretary of the board, attended the meeting. Delbert O. Wilmeth, city court Judgeelect, was present as attorney for Captain Miller. Charges of drinking were filed against Patrolman Sam Blumberg, Chief of Police Jerry E. Kinney alleging that he was found in an intoxicated condition at 628% East Wabash street after he had fallen down a stairway and cut his face. Sixteen substitute firemen were con-

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firmed as regulars and Charles A. Goines appointed substitute fireman. Van C. Curry, Lawrence F. McCarty, Glyndon H. Macy aud Robert Dennis were appointed patrolmen. FRAUD CHARGE MADE BY UNION RAIL ATTORNEY (Continued From Page One.) idea, they could farm out every function of the road, making anybody an independent contractor and setting the law aside. This case is an insult to this board.” Sidney C. Murray, attorney for the railroad, denied the jurisdiction of the board over employes of contractors. “If the board should hold the contracts are not bona fide," he said, "the men have signed a statement filed with the board that they are content with wages and conditions. They have authorized bo one to file complaint for them. The unions have no standing before this board. “Employes of the roads who lost their positions when the contract went into effect went on strike. They have no standing before this board because they went on strike. Contracting is an ancient institution. The only qustiou is whether the contracts are bona fide.” The Pennsylvania injunction case will be argued before Federal Judge K. M. Landis tomorrow by Chairman K. M. Barton and Vice Chairman Ben Hooper of the board. They will ask that the Pennsylvania petition, seeking to restrain the board from issuing an order declaring the Pennsylvania violated its orders, be dismissed. Bank Messenger Is Held Up on Trolley ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 20.—Two robbers “stuck up” Edward Edwards, colored bank messenger on a Market street trolley car, shortly before noon today and relieved him of SB,IBO In cash. While one man held the crew and passengers at a distance with his revolver, the other went through Edwards’ pockets. When the Job was finished the men stopped the car and made their escape.

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