The San Francisco call., 1896-03-27

police station and the other only few
blocks from the Harbor police station.
In each case two men committed the
robbery, one of them holding up his vic
tim at the muzzle of revolver and the
other securing the plunder.
From the necessarily meager description
given by the robbed men, their attention
having been concentrated more upon the
revolver than upon the footpads, the police
believe that the two hold-ups were done
by the same persons.
The first robbery was committed last
Tuesday night A stranger from the
country had been visiting Chinatown and
at about IL O'Clock, when a few yards
north of California street, on Dupont, two
men standing in the shadow of st. Marv's
Church stepped in front of him. One of
them poked the muzzle of revolver into
the strangers face and commanded him in
gruff voice:
Throw up your hands, and don't let a
squeal out of you."
The man from the country shot two
brawny arms and sunburned fists toward
the zenith. He had no remarks to make.
In fact he was so much surprised and agi-
tated at the black muzzle of the pistol th at
his mouth was too full for utterance. his
heart being in it.
There was grocery store on the oppo-
site corner not more than 100 feet away,
and there was considerable travel from Du-
pont street down California to st. Mary's
alley, and from the alley back again by
persons going Summing.
But this was not company for the coun-
tryman. He dared not call for help, be-
cause the footpad with the pistol, cooked
it, making considerable noise in doing so.
and with an oath threatened to SEND bull
let down bis throat if he uttered a sound.
The other highwayman rifed the coun-
tryman's pockets with q skill and dexter
ity that betrayed long practice in the agile
art Of pocket-p licking. He took a gold
watch and chain and few dollars in sill
ver In another pocket was purse con
tanning considerable gold; but before the
robber could reach it the approach of sew
eral Cinnamon alarmed him and his part
ner ano they ran away.
The man who had been plundered was
so confused and alarmed that he remained
standing for fully a min1te on the spot
where the robbers had left him, and by
that time they we're out of sight in some
one of the many dark and dingy alleys
which exist in Chinatown.
He reported the matter to the police
but owing to the fright into which the
thieves had thrown him he was unable to
give very good description Of them.
The next affair took place on Wednes.
day night between II and IL o'clock on
Clay street, between Battery and Front,
the victim also being visitor from the
country. He was rooming with friend
on the City front, and was returning from
one of the theaters where he had spent the
evening.
AS he was walking rapidly through a
part of the street where the shadows were
the deepest two men stepped cut of da rk
doorway, and before he could have an op-
portunity of using weapon if he had one
the foremost highwayman poked pistol
in front of his eyes and gruffly ordered
him to throw Up his hands and to refrain
from reciting either prayers or stump.
speeches.
The other man took from the victims
pockets $50 in coin and depasit-book on
the Hibernia Bank. Then, keeping him
covered with the revolver, they ordered
him to pursue the even tenor of his way
and not to look around or to disturb the
peace in any manner, under penalty oil
being shot in the back.
The robbery was reported to the police