East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-01-26
Highwayman. Shot Through
Cheek, Seeks Aid and is
Captured.
ONE PASSENGER WOUNDED
BY NOISY ROBBERS
Yelling Like Indians and Shooting
Promiscuously, Yeggmen Board
Car and Compel Conductor to Pass
Hat Among Passengers for Contri-
butions-Much Money Is Secured.

Los Angeles, Jan. 26.-Yelling like
Indian warriors and firing promiscu-
ously from pistols in both hands, two
masked bandits boarded an inbound
suburban car on the outskirts of San
Ia Monica, shortly after o'clock last
evening and after robbing 22 passen-
gers and seriously wounding one of
them, were routed and forced to flee
by a single shot.
This shot wounded one of the rob-.
bers, and he and his companion es-
capped in the brush.
The wounded bandit was captured
at $3.50 o'clock, when he boarded a
car to come into the city for medical
treatment, The wound in his cheek
betrayed him.
When brought to the county Jail
he gave the name of Roy Fox and
said he was 10 years old. He refus-
ed to give any information concern
ing the identity of his companion in
the holdup.
Passenger Wounded.
Harry Mitchell of Santa Monica,
who was wounded in the fusilade, was
shot in the neck. His injuries were
pronounced serious by the surgeons
of the receiving hospital here. The
bandit who was shot received the
bullet in the cheek. Herbert Harlan,
the man who shot him. was struck
by bullet, which pierced his coat
and fell harmlessly into his vest
pocket.
The car on which more than so
people were coming to the city 4om
the beach, had just left Santa Nom
lea city hall and was approaching
Toxic station where the bandits, wear
ing gaudy bandana handkerchiefs over
the lower portions of their faces,
swung aboard, one at each end Of
the car. With yell they began shoot
ing through the roof and sides of the
car.
The passengers were terroriZed and
submitted without a murmur when
one of the bandits ordered Motorman
c. L. Schaefer to take off his cap and
pass through the car collecting mon
ey and valuables in it, Harlan said
afterward that he had no thought of
resistance until he saw Mitchell fall
out of his seat wounded and felt the
blow of the same bullet which pierced
Mitchelrs neck, and crashing through
the car petition, struck just over the
heart. Mitchell was sitting inside
the closed portion OF the car, and
Harlan occupied the first seat out
side. The bandits escorting the mo-
torman on the collection tour had not
reached Mitchell when the latter was
shot. Harlan drew his revolver under
cover of his coat and fired through
the doorway,
Bandit Falls.
Instantly the smaller of the two
bandits reeed and let his weapon tall.
Blood spouted from holes in both
cheeks, showing that Harlan's bullet
had gone through his face.
He grasped the arm or his COM
panion and both raced through the
car to the front and leaped off.
AS they fled Motorman schaefer
started his car toward Toxic, where
a message was telephoned to the
sheriff. After that the car started
with all speed toward this. city Ia
miles distant, in order that Mitchell
might have surgical attention at once
1t is not known how much the rob-
hers obtained from their 22 victims.
Estimates run from several hundred
to several thousand dollars.
The holdup last night was the fourth
street car robbery here in less than