The Topeka state journal., 1903-03-23
KILLED IN HOLD UP.
One Shot Fatally and Three
Others Wounded.

VbuCLS " VUHuCUs
Los Angeles. Cal. March 2s.--Three
masked robbers attempted to hold up 4
car on the Los Angeles-Pacific electric
line, running between Los Angeles and
Santa Monica, about a mile west of the
city limits Saturday night, and have not
+ been apprehended
Every available officer was sent to the
scene as soon as the news of the rob
berry reached the city. but no trace of
/ the robbers was found
The general manager of the company
stated that the company will offer a re-
ward OF $1,000 for the capture of each OF
the robbers. The .highwaymen secured
nothing whatever from the passengers.
One passenger was killed and three
wounded.
wounded is little short of miraculous
Inside the car were thirty or more pas
sengers, and there were more than ten
shots fired. Bullets were found i'm
/ bedded in the woodwork in many places
when the car reached this city.
The dead:
H. A GRIsWOLD. of Manson. Iowa.
The wounded:
J. c. Cunningham. of Los Angeles, a
prominent trunk manufacturer; shot
I through the left thigh, thigh bone
/ broken, serious.
Ellis Pearson. of Sawtelle, the soldiers
home on the electric line: shot through
left leg.
DR. c. H. Boles. Of Los Angeles: shot
I through left hand.
1t is believed that one of the robbers
was badly wounded
Mr. GrisWold was a wealthy citizen OF
Manson, Iowa. He came here several
months ago for the benefit of his moth
er's health
The hold-ua occurred at the head of
a dee@l cut The robbers had placed 4
steel rail. large bench and a cement
barrel on the track.
Charles Curry, the motorman. saw
the obstruction when the car was sew
erai hundred yards from it. and at ones
turned of the current and ran slowly to
the place. The moment the car stopped
/ three men wearing masks over their
faces sprang from the weeds alongside
the track One boarded the front end
OF RE car and the other two the rear
end The first man commanded the
passengers occupying the open seats to
put UP their hands and when one OF
them DID not comply he fired a shot.
CHARLES Henderson, a pasSenger then
opened fire on the robber. shooting as
Iast as ne could pun the trigger. The
foDDef turned his sun upon Hender-
son, but as he did SO he was seen to
bend over and cry out as if in pain
Then, Strengthening up he began
shooting at the passengers huddled in
the front seats. One of his bullets
struck Pearson in the left leg. Hender-
son continued firing and the robber was
seen to fall.
While this was going on on the out
sloe OIL the car, q tragedy was being
enacted in the inside. The two robbers
who had entered the rear door com
manded the passengers to raise then
hands and most Of them did So Be
lore any attempt could be made bv the
robbers to search the passengers for
their Valu4bles,i the shooting began on
the outside Oft the car. Then the other
two robbers began shooting right and
left into the crowd of passengers
Griswold was seated about the mid
die of the car with his back turned
toward A 1H Il
Hands up, he tried to secrete his
watch under his legs and one of the
irobbers, thinking he was a bout to draw
q gun. fired point blank at him The
bullet struck him in the back of the
neck and he fell over into the lap of his
aged mother, who was seated at his
Dr. c. H Boles was near the front
door and at the command of the rob-
bers he raised his hands. When he had
them in the air, one Of the bullets from
a robbers revolver struck his left hand
and shattered the bones. After empty
ing their revOlvers, the robbers backed
out of the door and sprang off the car
and disappeared.
The car proceeded with all possible
speed to Sawtelle, the nearest point
where medical aid could be secured
GriswOld expired before the car had
gone a mile. He never spoke after he
was shot. and when his body was lifted
from the car at Santa Monica his watch
was found under him on the seat. His
mother was covered with his blood and
was almost insane from fright and
grief. The bullet which killed him
grazed the cheek of Miss Anna Funk.
who was travelling with him. At Saw
telle Pearson ws taken off the car and
conveyed to his home The other
wounded persons We're taken to Santa
Monica and given surgical treatment.
As soon as the shooting was over,
Henderson. who had fired at the rob-
bers. sprang from the car and started
to run. He ran across a vineyard and
struck a wire fence, being knocked
down. While in that position he saw
two of the robbers run to a road near
by and climb into a buggy and drive