Show NEAR TRAGEDY TRAGEDY STALKS S1 ALKS HOBO JUNGLE IN S. S L L. L Transient Brutal Brutally y Beaten Robbed by Two Men b 1 He I Befriended By BILL McDOUGALL L Near tragedy stalked the hobo Jungles jun early Friday when two dere lids Bob Malone 34 and Mike Moran Moran Mo- Mo ran 40 attacked a third wanderers with iron i an pi pias pipe as he slept In 4 railroad boxcar according ac- ac j cording to police Death stared md- md at Frank Fisher 48 w who h 0 i I said his home was Fresno Cal when he le awoke t to re receive re-n re i a rain of blows on his head and shoulders 1 Seven dollars Fisher hadi jealous jealously ly guarded seven dollars he hoped Malone would keep him from starvation was the object of Malones Malone's and Morans Moran's attack police said With blood fr streaming from a adeep U deep scalp laceration lacera- lacera tion and fear bear still shaking him he hey told his story y In Pioneer park parc 5 Thursday he us met e t tt t Moran and Malone f They were hungry i He He befriended r. r them buying baa bacon ba a c con eggs and cot cof- pr 1 fee which they cooked up in the Moran jungles They asked him where he would v sleep that night SIn In a boxcar he replied I L picked and went to sleep Fisher said Aj A Ablow blow on the head awoke him about 3 a. a m. m He begged for mercy ft Lay down o r well we'll kill you hiss attackers told according to his story to police I toj Soi i roll out of the She cark door and ran cry cry- c cing ing for help Fish Fisher er related Special Officer e r Fisher Fishel- Harry A A. Bruce 1329 Indiana avenue heard Fishers Fisher's cries He found bound Malone Malone Ma Ma- lone and Moran hiding in some brush near Fourth West and Ninth South streets The three were taken to police headquarters with Robert Lentz 18 Fresno Cal who was also sleeping in the boxcar and witnessed the al alleged alleged al- al attack t When they appeared in police court Malone and Moran were given day 10 sentences in the city jail atter af after at- at ter pleading guilty to vagrancy charges Chief of Police William L L. Payne requested the sentences to give police time to check records of the two men Fisher and Lentz were released They told officers they were headed for California as fast as we can go |