Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-06
BOLD ONES HOLD
Up A FARGO CAR
Two Masked Men Poke Guns
Under the Noses Of
Trolley Men
Stunt Was CleVefly Done
But Net Results We're
Very Slim

Fargo, N. D., May 5.-Coyered with
ugly revolvers the crew of the Sac
red Heart Academy car of the Fargo
and Moorhead street railway COM
pany was held up and robbed when
at the terminal of that line near the
ductor being relieved of $9.O5 COM
pany money and fifty cents personal
cash, while the motorman was i'm
muste-he was broke.
The whole affair wore earmarks
of professionalism throughout and
only the fact that Chief Gabe Grant
boarded the car but few minutes
before at the terminal Of the Oak
Grove line saved the crew from fall,
ing victems that much earlier.
When the car, which had carried
but one passenger on the trip toward
the academy, reached the end of the
line, Frank e. Carlson, conductor
No. %, grabbing the trolly rope was
in the act of turning the pole for
the return journey, when reaching
about the center of the car two men
sprang out from the trees along the
side of the road and covering him
with revolvers demanded the COM
pany's money. He was told that his
money and watch were not wanted,
only the coin of the corporation be-
ing desired Despite this fact they
secured a half dollar of his personal
| money with 5000 belonging to the
company.
| Moferman Struddeel at first treat
ed it as joke, and for some time
he baked at getting off the car, but
he lost nothing by obeying the or.
der of the robbers, having but two
cents on his person.
All this time, which consumed sew
eral minutes, the lights in the cal
were off, the trolley pole being of
the wire. Completing the job, one
remarked: "You can go, I'll take
care of these fellows" and with
that one made toward the river while
the second took possession of the cal
and with both men covered, revolv
er cooked, ordered the power turned
on-threatening either man witt
death if a move was made. AfteI
getting down to about the Holes res
idence the fellow jumped from thu
car, commanding that no stop b.
made by the crew under penalty o
death.
The car was run to Broadway full
speed and the police notified. CAP
tain Dahlgren accompanied by Office
Korsmo and Charles Schruth an
Haggart boarded the same car an
with the lights off they got to tn
scene of the affair The territor
toward the river was searched with
: out success.
The theory of Chief Grant is tina
) man who got off the Oak Grow
car the trip before did the bushes
with pal. The chief was at tn
end of the Oak Grove line at H.: Is
A man got off then, following tn
conductor when he changed the troll
ley pole. 1t was certain that he wa
not acquainted with the neighbor
hood as he got off the car from tn
rear, the opposite side of the ca
from the sidewalk. Evidently h
spied the big police chief and al
though following his man around tn
car, decided to postpone the holdu
until the next trip on the academ
line. The man, a stranger to tn
crew and chief, boarded the car a
N. P. avenue, having transfer from
the Moorhead line. The Moorhea'
court house is just across the rive
, from where the affair occurred ant
it is believed that boat was USE
, in getting to the Minnesota side.
, Every officer was notified to be Of
the liikout by Chief Grant. Moor
head officers watched every bridg
, including the G. N and every effor
will be made to get the robbers.