State v. Fair

On and prior to the night of Saturday, April 4, 1903, Robert Gr. Miller and his brother, under the firm name of Miller Bros., were conducting a meat market on East Sprague avenue, in the city of Spokane. About nine o’clock on the evening of that date, and while Robert Gr. Miller and Charles Johnson, the driver of the market wagon, were preparing to close the market for the night, three masked men, with pistols in their hands, suddenly entered the room, “held ujf’ Miller and Johnson, and took from the cash, register — which was on the comer of the counter — and carried away, $70 belonging to-…