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Show JUST LIKE BORDER DAYS. Bold Robbery iirr. San Francisco Haa Unfortunate Ending for Robber. San Francisco. James M. Thomp son, vice-president of the Thompsor Bridge company, on entering his office Saturday with a sack containing $3, 200, which he had just drawn frorc the Bank of California, discovered his bookkeeper tied to a chair. On turning turn-ing his head Thompson was confronted confront-ed by two masked men, one of whom shot him through the chest, inflicting a serious wound. , Grabbing up the sack, the men made a dash for a buggy near by, which one of the robbers rob-bers with the money entered, while the other made his escape. The fleeing flee-ing man was pursued by policemen in an automobile and was finally captured. cap-tured. During the shooting William Roseberg received a stray bullet, but was not seriously hurt. The captured nan has been identified as Francis H. Gorman, an ex-convict. All the money was recovered. |