The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28
ROBBED OF CLOTHES
|sTRkNoER IN PECULTAR PLIGHT
 AT POLICE STATION.
Albert Booth of Salt Lake City De clares that Three Men Held Him Up on the River
 Rank

| 8 UQTfOWGu I occasion, Robert Booth, a young whIte man. who says his home Is in Salt Lake City, Utah. told the officers at police headquarters last night that he had been | held up by three white highway men and robbed of his watch, his money and | his clothes. 3 | He tells his story in a thorough and ] straightforward way and his statements if true. show him to have been victim of the hardest of hard luck
 l Except for wondering where he is to get enough clothes to make . street sp- pearance Booth does not seem to be very. | much worried over his peculiar predic- ament. complaining only of the treat ment of the highway man who donned his clothes and grumbled because the sleeves of the coat were too short for l him.
 Booth. who is a years old. says that he was standing near the Union Railway | station about s:s0 o'clock last night pre- paring to buy railroad ticket to Mobile when three white nien--a tall man and 1 two short ones-approached him. The | tall man asked for match. Booth gave | 1t to him and the tall man casually re- | marked that he. Booth, looked like a. tramp. Booth responded that he was out of work. but that he was looking for. | the foreman of a bridge crew, whom he 
 ed that not being able to find him., he was going on to Mobile. At this, the tall man who seems to have been the spokes- man. replied that the man he was look ing for was over in the Louisville and Nashville Railroad yards. Booth indufr. ed the direction of ;the yards and the men who said they lived here were just bruising around. offered to direct him | to the place. 4ss r, t5s.a't y,7, IT. 4
 Tbe four vner s.t.rr..y, 4n,.tt, s.r,:;, { t,,. railroad tracks toward the Louisville and Nashville yards and, walked until they were in a few feet of the railroad bridge spanning the gllch made by the outlet to the river from Cypress pond. Here the | tall man, who was in front halted and | said they would have to get ofr the rail- road tracks and go around by way of the | river. Booth, who says that lip 10 this time, he suspected nothing. objected and | asked the reason why they should not continue on the tracks. The man replied that no one, excepting men on duty were allowed to walk the tracks in the yard. Booth rejoined that he had busi- 1 ness there and that he could explain. if accosted, their business in the yards. While this conversation was taking place between Booth and sae tall man, | the two short men dropped behind him. Looking around, he peered into the mug zie of a revolver held by one of the, short men and was. ordered to follow l the tall man. Booth inquired the mean l ing of the action. Booth says he re-
 piled. "well. we are going to do some
 harm to you" On a second look into the
 barrel of the pistol, Booth deernedeit ad-
 visable to obey orders.
 rollowing the lead of the tall man. he
 says he walked down an einbankniAnt
 about 90 or 70 yards and was told to halt I He was covered all the lime by the pis.
 tol Hand over that overcoat, said the tall man and he was obeyed. "Go through
 him. said the holder of the weapon.
 land see if he's got gun" The tall
 man searched carefully and finding no
 gun took fin lieu thereof a gold filled
 watch. $l4 and his knife. 4 e... .sf!
 What shall we dot with him 7''e asked one of the men. according to Booth. Af~
 ter a brief consultation In which Booth thinks they planned to keep him from rushing of to police headquarters, they
 evidently decided to leave him without clothing
 1 T .g need some, new clothes anyway"
 says Boo1h quctlig the tall man.
 Booth says he s,Waa ordered to disrobe,
 but he pleaded with the men. His plead
 ings were in vain and he was soon left
 standing in his socks, Nunderelothes and hat.
 The men after warning him not to fol-
 low them. made oh over the crest of the hill. q
 Booth says he went back up the hill.
 and got on the railroad bridge behind a
 post, He stopped several negroes who
 were passing and asked them to send
 word to police headquarters of his plight
 Police Captain W. H. Taylor went in
 his buggy and took the shivering Booth
 to the station where he told his tale of 1 woe. .'-
 l
 | The police are busy on the case and if
 the men are in Montgomery they will be captured as Booth gave minute descrip- tions of them. The tall fellow was, he said about six feet two inches in height, and was slender. He wore a light mus | tache and big black hat. The short men were clean shaven and fairly well l dressed.
 Meanwhile the police. like the man in
 the comic opera. have 'an elephant on their hands,"
 Booth. wrapped in the lap robe slept in the assembly room at the police sta ton last night. He said he would be glad to discuss his trouble with any one who has spare suit of clothes. condition of wear not to be considered. ', He says he Is an iron moulder and a member of the union.