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Show Callfornla State Robber Wounded. A lone highwayman attempted to hold up the Chico and West Branch stage at a point twenty miles from Chico, California, Thursday afternoon. The stage was going up a steep grade, when the robber, disguised with gunny sacks over his head and about his feet and legs, stepped from behind a tree and commanded the driver, T. S. Finchley, to throw out the express , box. Finchley drew a revolver and began firing. The fire was returned by the robber. After emptying his revolver, re-volver, the robber fled, but as he turned a bullet from Finchley's revolver revol-ver struck him in the right arm, causing caus-ing him to drop his pistol. He picked up the pistol with his left hand and disappeared in the thick underbrush. |