Arizona republican., 1909-07-09
GOT ONLY 4 FEW DOLLARS
Held Up Conductor A. H. Lincoln at the Evergreen Switch on Indian School Line at 10:10 Last Night and Made His Getaway.

Shell out" said a masked robbeT last night to A. H. Lincoln, motorman and conductor on the Indian car line, and Lincoln shelled. but only in part He took off his cap. pursuant to a subsequent order, and placed his dollar watch in it. together with a small quantity of silver, keeping the rest of his money in another pocket, and passed it over to the outlaw who then said Now hike it down the road, and Lincoln hiked. not only because the robber said so but because he wanted to catch the car that was fast crawling away from him, the incident having occurred on the ground whither the two men had repaired at the rob ber's suggestion.
 It was the last run of the car for the night It left the Indian school at 10 o'clock and rhis incident occurred about 0:I0. near the switch in Ever green Place, midway between Roose- welt street and the Mcdowell road Lincoln was alone on the car. As he approached the switch in Evergreen Place he naturally slowed up consid- erably and at that moment man wearing a mask of cloth over the upper part of his face, jumped from the side of the road and leveling formidable looking six shooter at his head uttered some sort of command. Lincoln paid little attention to the command having his thoughts concentrated on the gun. so he dropped behind the thin iron ar.I nf a the time turning on the juice thinking he could run away from his assailant The car Iesped forward but not fast enough and the robber boarded the rear end of it. When Lincoln arose and looked around he saw the highwayman com ing down the aisle behind him and realized that flight was useless. The next order was to stop the car and he turned off the power though he was not given time to set the brake and the car was coasting along smoothly under it's accumulated velocity on level straight track.
 Get off the car" was the next com mand. and Lincoln obeyed. the robber following Then came the order to shell out and put his valuables in his cap. he did so and the robber reached for it Lincoln politely asked him to hand the cap back after he had taken what was in it but the rascal only re- spcnded that if Lincoln tried to get the cap back he would kill him, or bore him full of holes. or some similar remark Taking the cap the robber told Lincoln to 'hike it down the road" and he did so for the street car was then a block or so away from him, gradually slowing down. Lincoln had disembarked on the west side of the track and went east. though it was so dark he could not see far. there being no moon.
 Lincoln came on to town and gave the facts to his superiors and asso- ciates and to the police and sheriff but before anybody could get out there the man had time to make a clean get away Lincoln and other employees of the company went back on the car and made as thorough a search of the locality as they could by the car lights. for Lincoln's cap. but it was not found. The place where the two men left the car was easily located by a mass of tracks in the dust, for Lincoln in his precipitation had fallen and mussed up the right of way consider ably. One track that was supposed to be that of the highwayman measur- ed about eleven inches in length and the shoe was of a last that turns in from the outside, making the point of the shoe almost in front of the great toe
 Lincoln says the man spoke very plain English. is a white man, and he believed is an American. The upper part of his face was covered by the mask. He cannot say whether the man has a mustache or not but he believes not and is quite certain he has no beard. While he had no chance to note a very accurate description he says he is a man of rather more than or dinary size. while Lincoln himself is a small man, too small in fact to risk the issue of mill, especially when the other man had a gun that looked sev- eral sizes bigger than it need to be to kill a man with.
 Lincoln's cash was scattered through various pockets and he could not say inst how much he was short until he had figured up his trip reports. He only knew that he had given up only a part of the money and that the rob Der would not have secured a whole lot if he had taken it all. Probably five or ten dollars is all he got. to- gether with the watch which Lincoln says he will not grieve over as it only cost him a dollar.
 MT. Lincoln is an old and trusted employe of the company and one of