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Show innnjinjj him to open the door. Iook-IK Iook-IK up. Mr. Human say he saw the facv'of a masked' man-at -the .tran-s-'orti and a large 'revolver pointed dl-i"etly dl-i"etly toward him,' Again tamo the Uemnud for him to ; open tlie door, with the threat. that If he did not ho , would have his -brains blown out. ; With unusual presence of mind, Mr. Human told the highwayman to wait u second while he- got up and ' unlocked un-locked the door, and ie. sprang! out v( bed. He ilien rushed to one si d" cf the room and, catching' tip1 his? revolver, re-volver, opened fire' toward the transom. tran-som. This frightened the burglar and he rushed down . tho stairs, making his escape Mr. Human says he fired at the burglar's head, but ho - fell, and hence the bullet evidently,'. went wild. Only one of the three1 bullets fired 'by Mr. Human went .through the transnm. the- other two going through, tho wall into the next room. All ttTe bullets were found, the, two J in tbo next room to the one occupied by Hr. Human, and the third in tho hallw ay. Mr. Human says the- burglar burg-lar 'also fired one shot. After firing the shoto. Mr, Human went to Mrs. X. Olbrlch, the proprietress proprie-tress of the ' rooming bouse, and. announced an-nounced to her that he , had sbof a man. but . no. woumVd man could be found. By thl? tlnr excitement pre i ailed throughout the house- When asked nbout the affair Tuesday aftcr-rvbon. aftcr-rvbon. Mrs. Olbrlch said that she had got up herself a. few minutes before the shooting to turn out the lights, iiiid bad gone back to bod again. Sha fell Into a doze; but was suddenly ! wakened by what she thought was the repeated slamming of a door.Not being thoroughly awake, .she said, she did not realize at the instant that the noise waj the report of a revolver iiiul , -thought nothing of It until Mr. HnKjan notified her that he had shot a 'man. I ' A , stepladder hpd been left in the hsllway by Mrs. Olbrlch Monday j fight, and this the burglar utilized to, climb to the transom. Mr. Hu-tuan Hu-tuan thinks he must have been followed fol-lowed to bis rooming house, by the desperado, who contemplated lobbing him of bis jewelry. He usually wears about $C,ion worth of diamonds, and it Is probable that the burglar's attention at-tention was attracted by the stones. Mr. Human wears a diamond of seven carats as a scarfpln. two stones of five carats each in a ring on one I and, and a.iother five-carat ston? In a ring on the other band He also voaro other smaller gems about him ili his locket, and so on The '.natter was reported to thp police and an investigation in-vestigation Is being made. BURGLAR IS PUT TO . - FLIGHT BY SHOTS Salt Lake, Aug. 17 While it may not bo unusual for a man suffering Ircnt nightmare to awaken at an early hour hi the morning' somewhat fright-ezod fright-ezod after having dreamed he daw a burglar looking through, the transom ef hid room pointing a jjun at him tad ordering him to throw open tho door, it la somewhat out of the ordi-W" ordi-W" iov a man to experionce tho real l''-ag. Nevertheless, such wab tho evrieace of B. G. Human, a tourist of San Antonio." Texas, at the Cumberland Cum-berland rooming house, 307 East Second Sec-ond South etrcet, early Tuesday morn- "IK. The story sounds like fiction a v suitable rival for one of the Sherlock Holmes narratives. But It is truo, ertbeless. and it was only his presence of mind that prevented Mr, ;Am!n from bc,n robbed of about 56,000 worth of diamonds. Mr Human registered at the room- inbous at a ,at hor Monday nigbt, and, after going to his room, Ihnf ""'ately. FalIlnB to sleep Trblle reading, Mr. Human unconsciously uncon-sciously left the light !n hla room mri wl an arly hour Tuesday morning Mr. Human was awakened , i' a gruff voice calling to him from i traaBom of his door and con |