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Show BATTLE WITH BANDITS. Cltzens anJ Robbers Engage In Deadly Duel at Blackfoot, Idaho. Aa tho result of a battlo between robbers and section mon Just south of Dlackfoot, one man Is dead, two others oth-ers aro fatally wounded, whllo a posse Is In pursuit of another, who will bo lynched If captured. Tho dead men nro John Sweet, deputy sheriff of Dlackfoot, and nu unknown man, 0110 of tho robbeis, whllo W. 13. Fltzgorald, section foreman, is fatally wounded. At C o'clock Sunday evening two men entered tho section house occuplod by Japanese lalnrcis on tho Oregon Short Lino rnllway, Just south of town, and attompted to hold up tlio men. Whllo they were parjoylng with tho men tho daughter of Section Fore-mini Fore-mini Fitzgerald called for help and summoned Deputy Sheriff Sweet, who, on arriving, was Joined by hor father and tho two men went to tho section houso. Thoy wore met nt tho door by ono ol tho desperadoes, who, with a rovolver In his hand, becUonod Sweet to come In. Sweet stepped up the stairs to the door whon tho fellow raised his gun and fired. So i-loso was tho gun to the sheriff's face ihut the powder black-oned black-oned his forehead. Tho bullet entered tho templo Just abovo tho eyes, Inflicting Inflict-ing n fatal wound, from which ho died In nbout nu hour, without recovering' consciousness. As tho body of tho sheriff foil Into tho room tho murderer sprang over It and with nn oifUi started after Fitzgerald, Fitz-gerald, who ran for tho section houso, a short distance away, which he roachod, locking tho door after him. After firing two shots through the ' door, tho desperado, n giant In stature brolto tho door down nnd cornering Fitzgerald, shot him threo times, omptylng his gnu, nnd then beat hlir into Insonsiblllty. I Tho two mon then jumpod through I a window and rnn to tho railroad track. Thoy Btartod up tho track to ward tho depot, firing occasionally to keep tho crowd back. Mcanwhtlo several of tho citizens secured se-cured guns and thoy responded to the flro of tho outlaws. A regular battlo j followod, over a hundred shots being pt -aneed Deputy Sheriff Kinney ' then camo around tho corner of n car with a sawod-off shotgun and emptied 1 a load of buckshot Into ono of tho wb-bors. wb-bors. Throwing up his hands, tho mur-1 dercr sank slowly forwurd upon his faco. 1 Tho othor continued firing as he rnn nnd made good his oscnpo onto ths Fort Hall Indian reservation. A posse Is In pursuit of tho robbor who es-enpod, es-enpod, and If enptured ho will be lynched. |