The record-union., 1896-01-23
FIVE HOLD UPS IN ONE DAY.
ALI Committed Within a Few Blocks Of
the Same Spot.
A Lone Highwayman Who Levies
Tribute on Incoming and Out
going Travellers.


Between 6 o'clock on Tuesday evening
and Z o'clock last evening no less than
five holdups occurred near the south
eastern corner of the city. They were
all in the same vicinity, and all the
work Of the same masked highwayman.
Don't look around, for If you do I'll
blow holes through you!" This was
the warning given by the highwayman
while going through the pockets of two
men shortly before o'clock on Tues
day evening, after having halted them
and made them leave their vehicle.
C. Gaylord and r. Iies are employed
IN the Southern Pacific Companys
freight sheds and live outside the city
On that night they were returning home
on their cart and met a man on the Y
street levee, at Twenty-second street,
as they meet men there almost every
night. This particular man, however,
obtruded his presence upon their con-
sciousness in a most unpleasant man
ner, for as soon as he came alongside of
their cart he showed a revolver into the
drivers face and gru1i1y ordered him to
stop.
He did not stop to argue the point. but
did as he was told, and the footpad or
dered them to produce their money
They told him they had none, and he or
dered them to stand up in the cart and
let him investigate. Gaylord stood up
in obedience to the command and the
fellow went through his pockets. He
had only ten cents, but the footpad did
not find it, and he still rejoices in the
possession of his wealth.
The rest Of his experience was more
unpleasant As the highwayman was
going through mis- pockets Gaylord
turned his head and looked toward him,
and instantly received a couple of blows
frcm the revolver on his arm, accom-
panied by the stern injunction, Don't
look round, you - , or I'll
blow hole through you!"
Well" said Gaylord, in relating the
occurrence, "it is all very well to laugh
about now, after it is all over, but not
very pleasant to go through. My head
went back to it's place without unneces-
sary delay"
Just then another man came driving
along about half a block distant, and
the footpad left them and disappeared
down the levee, and they could not see
where he went. Had not the newcomer
appeared when he did, Gaylord thinks
they would probably have been roughly
handled, as the footpad was evidently
ar ugly customer. They describe him
as a man above medium size. rather
heavy built and with heavy mustache
He wore a mask.
During the hold-up they could see the
Twenty first street electric car stand
ing at the end of the track, only block
t,1r+ ,.sH
man who came up in the wagon saw
anything Of the robber AS 1t was sup
posed that yesterday would be payday
for the railroad employees, they think
the footpad had chosen that night, ex-
pecting to make good haul. They pro-
pose to go armed hereafter, and make it
interesting for anyone who attempts to
stop them.
MILKMAN ROBBED.
The next victim of this bold suburban
bandit was NJ j. Holland. the we'll
known milkman, who was delivering
milk about daylight yesterday morning
from his dairy at Twenty-second and
S streets.
When in the vicinity of Thirty-first
and P streets he encountered the
masked highwayman, who presented a
pistol and compelled him to stop and
disgorge. All the money Holland had
with him at the time was one dollar
and this he was only too glad to yield
up as the price of escape from personal
injury.
HoLD-UP NO. THREE.
About o'clock last evening a tele-
phone message from somewhere in the
suburbs announced that a man-whose
name was said to be Johnson-was con-
fronted in the same locality by the lone
highwayman, while on his way home
from the city.
At the command to stop the horses
took fright and dashed off, leaving the
robber standing in the middle of the
road.
HoLD-UP NO. FOUR.
But the fellow was persistent. He had
struck q lead that he had worked sue
oessfully' for several evenings, and he
did not propose to abandon it because
one intended victim had escaped.
He had not long to wait until a truck
man named Dawson, who lives outside
the city, came along. The highwayman
held him up, also, but what he got, if
anything, is not known, as Dawson did
not return to town. but kept on his way
HOLD-UP NO. FIVE.
When Dawson reached Guthrie's Sta
tion he told the proprietor of the place
what had happened. and they armed
themselves and went back to see if
they could find the robber.
While they were hunting for him
about Thirty-frst and P streets, how
ever. the fellow had changed his base
of operations by moving two blocks
farther into the city, and there COM
mitted another robbery while Dawson
and his companion were almost within
hailing distance of him.
At that hour a man named Kramer.
who resides a few miles from town on
one of the Stockton roads, came along
on his way home, accompanied by his