Arizona republican., 1894-09-27
HELD UP A STREET CAR.
An Incident at the Park Last
 Night.
Two Masked Men Armed With Re- Voiver and Winchester Rob
 Conductor and Motorman.

The latest novelties in crime are being introduced into Phoenix. An electric car was held up last night and the crew robbed of everything in their posses sion but the car, the bell-punch and {; which the conductor modestly con cealed while the search WAS going on The robbery occurred about half past nine at the Park terminus.
 The car was in charge of Conductor Bacon and Motorman Huft. The con. ductor was sitting in the car and was just rising to pull the bell to start on the last trip. Whatever bis reflections were they were suddenly interrupted by the command Throw up your hands," This injunction was enough in itself to have communicated alarm but the rude manner in which 1t was uttered, the time of night and the loneliness of the place lent additional weight to the robbers observation con- cerning inc position in which he de- sired the conductors hands to be placed.
 The appearance of the robber him self was not reassuring. He was tall man and his identity was concealed behind black mask. He made no at- tempt though to disguise the size of bore of Winchester rife which was pointed unerringly at the conductor s head. The conductor only supposes that 1t was Winchester but wouldn't t swear that it wasn't a Martin Henry. He noticed the bore more particularly and is inclined to the belief that it was 444 calibre.
 He jumped from his seat and ran to the front of the car where the motor man was standing. The robber ran along the side of the car and another robber who had before kept out ct sight ap- peared on the other side. This re- enforcement was armed with revolver also of abnormaliy and unnecessarily large caliber. The man with Winches- ter still monotonously insisted that the street car employees "hold up their hands," Just to get rid of him they did 1t. They were anxious to get back to town as soon as possible so as not to break the schedule. They were there- fore willing to agree to almost anything reasona ble in order to save time.
 When their hands were up tbey were naturally at 6 disadvantage. and then the robbers invited them to get of the car and accompany them behind row of cottonwood trees which were planted at that point to facil- itate street car robberies. The two men were lined up in the shadow of the trees. It is hardly necessary to ob- serve that they constituted points of @ perfectly straight line. That has al- ready been settled by geometry, go that the nicety of the line they described was due neither to the mathematical eye of the robbers or the victims. One of the masked men held a Win chester so that if it would go off it would create two vacancies in the street car force st single shot. This economical arrangement was designed not so much to save ammunition as time and promote feeling of confi- denee. The other robber did the rus- tling for proceeds. From Motorman Huft he took gold watch. From Con- ductor Bacon he also obtained & gold watch and $5.50 in change. There was s5 which he didn't get, but the con- ductor said nothing about it until 1t was too late to repair the mistake.
 The street car men were then per mitted to go and they went. People along the eastern end of the line who saw that car coming to town thought it was a meteor or an unannounced comet.
 Messrs Bacon and Huft reported the robbery at the sheriff's office and Dep uties Widmer and Prothero went out to see about 1t. The robbers were not there. The street car men give a meager description of the highwaymen. One was about six feet tall and the other about two inches shorter. The faces of both were hidden by masks, but the victims believe they were young men.