St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-21
ROBBERS ARE ABROAD
Two Hold-Ups Saturday Night
and TWO Men Behind the
Bars.
WITH LEVELED REVOLVERS
TWO Masked Men Confront
and Rob Fred ArtZ and
Nels Strom.
WITH LEVELED REVOLVERS
DETECTIVES ARE SPEEDY,
And Soon Land the Highway
men, Who Are Positively
Identified.


mitted within a few minutes of each
other Saturday night. and Stephen
Deveraux ami Jerry McCarthy.two we'll
known characters. are now behind the
bars in the central police station, charged
with the offense. The two men who
were held-up are Fred Artz, who works
in the Bank of Minnesota, and NelS
Strom, laborer.
About II O'Clock on the night referred
to, Artz was on his way home. when, at
the corner of Fourteenth and Canada
streets, he was confronted by two men
with handkerchiefS tied over their
mouths and chins One of them lev
eled revolver at Artz's head, and gave
the customary command, "Hold up
your hands!" Artz was i'll no frame of
mind for debating the question just at
the moment, and even il he. had been.
it is probable he would have considered
it one of those questions on which 1t IS
more discreet to yield than argue, i'll
view of :he fact that the preponderance
of logic seemed TO be on the other side
when he looked into the muZzle of that
gun. Consequently his hands, as If by
an involuntary movement, shot up III
the air like sky-rockets.
The other footpad then went through
his pockets, taking bunch OF keys,
watch and little change. At the con-
clusion of the ceremony Artz was
ordered to move OIL and pay no atten-
ton TO what took place in the rear. lie
obeyed the command as implicitly as
though he had been paid for doing So
in fact, he seemed to be only too glad to
carry out the wishes of his new-made ac-
Quaintances in the matter, and while
the beads of perspiration chased each
other down his spinal column he chased
himself up the street, the polite gentle
men who had so much entertained him
taking
The Opposite Direction.
as a matter of course. ArtZ gotta good
mental photograph Of them, however,
because he made up his mind he wanted
to see them again, only in another play.
1t was Just half an hour later when
Strom, who had been out to see his best
girl, was halted opposite $40 Park ave-
hue, just in the same manner as ArtZ.
Strom's mind was filled with visions of
the coming days when he and his sweet
heart, seated by cracking fire i'll q
cosy little cot, each dancing a baby Oh
their knees, would talk and laugh about
their courtship days, then kiss and feel
again the ecstasy of love that Joined
them heart and hand for life. He even
thought how gladly he would grant her
every wish and obey her comm ands,
provided they were not too oppressive.
With such visions floating through the
winding stars and back alleys Of his
brain. it is not strange that his
hands went up at the command of
the high Waymen with as much speed
as would the heels of a drunken man
on smooth ice, for naturally he thought
it was one of the commands of his fair
Que that he had just imagined himself
obeying. 1t was not un il the spiritual
vanished from his eyes and they came
in contact with the material-gettlng a
GLIMPSE Of the big gun-that he realized
he had been awakened from dream in
very rude manner, and he almost felt
like entering protest, but he didn't.
Strom was relieved of silver watch
and 50 in cash before he was told to
take a sneak" ana not look back. He.
like Artz. obeyed the command with all
Que courtesy. Every time his mind
wanders off into the realm of the spirit
! ual now it is at once brought back by a
vision of that big gun intruding itself,
which goes to prove that those phllos-
ophers are all wrong who maintain that
mind is superior 10 matter.
However, Strom met Patrolman Bank
er a little later on, and, catching sight
of Deveraux, told the officer he was one
Of the men who robbed him. DeverauX
was accordingly locked up, and yester-
day Detectives McGuiggan and Myer-
| ding arrested McCarty on Broadway.
Last evening both of them were posi-
lively identified by both Artz and Strom,
and also by another man who had seen
them few seconds before they held
Strom up. This man concluded they
were lying in wait to hold some one up,
| and as he drew near them he walked
across the street. and thus probably
| avoided falling victim himself.
Both Deveraux and McCarty were
raised in ST. Paul. McCarty is twenty
eight years of age, and is married. Dew.
| erauX is younger.