Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-10
THIRD VICTIM IS
ADDED TO LIST
OF BANDIT GANG
HlGHWAYMEil BEAT AND ROB
MAN AT ROSCOE
SAN FERNANDO VALLEY SCENE
OF DESPERATE CRIMES
Residents of District in Which Series
of Depredations Occur Take
Up Arms and Men
Form Posses

Following close on the daring rob
berry of T. f. Garvey in his home at
San Fernando the serious wounding of
Mrs. II. c. Stephens by two armed and
masked bandits and the brutal attack
and robbery of Mrs. w. II. Thompson
of San Fernando road, Peter Heist of
1341 South Flower street yesterday ar
rived in Los Angeles from Roscoe and
reported that he had been held up and
brutally beaten by three highwaymen.
The robbery of Hest, which is the
third in as many days, has aroused
the neighborhood and created a reign
of terror, although posses and officers
are in pursuit and taking up every
clew by which they may trace the ban
dts.
Heist was brutally beaten and
robbed of SCI. He is a machinist, and
made his way from Roscoe to the
county Jail last night, where he re-
ported he had been held up by the
three men and robbed after a strenu-
Gus fight.
Heist was sent to the receiving hos
pitaI, where it was found he had suf-
fered a severe laceration of the upper
lip, both eyes were closed and his body
showed the effects of the beating ad-
ministered by the hold-up men.
Heist went to visit some relatives at
Roscoe last night, and while waiting
for a train to take him to Los Angeles
was approached by three men. who de-
manded his money. Heist is stoutly
built and of an athletic nature and re-
fused to comply with the demands of
the thugs.
A fight ensued, which lasted fifteen
,,aiptttac TJaIcf hafflipcr q Uaipcf crra9t
odds and hoping some person in the
foothills near Roscoe would hear
sounds of the conflict and come to his
aid.
Beaten and Robbed
He was finally beaten into uncon-
sciousness and robbed. When he re-
covered his senses he came to Los
Angeles and reported the holdup to
Deputy Sheriff Gallagher at the coun-
ty Jail The deputy sent him to the
receiving hospital, and when his inju-
ries were dressed he told the story of
the hold-up
"I was waiting for a Los Angeles
train" said Heist, land walking along
the road to Roscoe, when three men
appeared. One of them grabbed me,
and I fought, but the other two came
to his assistance, and I was overpow-
cred. They beat me with clubs and
then took my purse, containing SCI.
Deputy sheriffs were sent by Sheriff
Hammel to the scene of the crime as
II is believed the men are connected
with the gang that shot Mrs II. C.
Stevens at San Fernando Tuesday
night and who have been guilty of nu-
merous hold-ups in the neighborhood
of Burbank for the past few days.
A large part Of the population of San
Fernando has become an armed posse
and, led by Constable Strader, is
securing the surrounding country in
search of the two thugs who bound
and gagged F. F. Garvey in the home
of Henry stephens Tuesday night at
San Fernando. at which time Mrs.
Stephens was seriously wounded:
Sheriff Makes Search
Sheriff Hammel, accompanied by
three deputies, who spent Tuesday
night in San Fernando valley in search
of the men, returned yesterday morn
ing without any possible clews to the
identity of the robbers.
The two men who were taken from
northbound trains Tuesday night after
the hold-up and held until the arrival
of Garvey and Constable Strader were
released yesterday after being iden-
titled by GarVey as not being the men
who gagged him and later shot Mrs.
Stephens.
Three deputies from the sheriff's Of
fee went to San Fernando yesterday
morning and assisted other deputy
sheriffs and constables of San Fer
nando and neighboring towns in
spreading a dragnet throughout the
surrounding country. Every man who
could not give a satisfactory account
of himself was closely questioned as to
his actions during the past forty-eight
hours before being allowed to pass on.
Ten men were taken from freight
train at Newhall by deputy sheriffs
yesterday in the hope that some of
them would be identified by Garvey as
the two wanted. Garvey after look
ing the men over stated that none
answered his description.
Although Mrs. stephens wounds are
serious, 1t is not thought they will
prove fatal. She was brought to a
hospital in Los Angeles yesterday.
After Thompson Robbers
According to statements made at
the sheriffs office yesterday, several
valuable clews have been discovered
which it is expected will lead to the
apprehension and arrest of the man
who brutally beat Mrs. w. H. Thomp-
son. wife of a rancher on the San
Fernando road. last Monday night and
escaped with $50 in money.