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Bandits loot drug store and streetcar in Wednesday night rash
Police hunt three bandits after a drug store safe was looted of 80 dollars by an armed Negro and 52 dollars taken from a streetcar crew. At the drug store operators Mrs. and Mr. Russell were present. A separate streetcar robbery netted 20 dollars from conductor Paul Day and 38 dollars from motorman John T. Smith. A watchman was slugged at a junk yard, and a man was robbed after inviting him to have a drink with two suspects at a vacant house. A purse was stolen from Miss Myrtle Williams and thefts of small sums occurred near the Merchants Bank building on Capitol Avenue.
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John Russell
Blake and
Walnut Streets
McKimm Street
John T. Smith
Thirty-second Street
Fairground
Pete Myers
Washington Street
Fallender Junk Yard
Eighteenth Street
Belt Railroad
Myers
Amos Skaggs
Prospect Street
New Jersey
South Streets
Postal Telegraph Company
Merchants Bank
Myrtle Williams
North Capitol Avenue