Show HELO UP I Drug Store Man Is Fiercely Assaulted MAY M Y COST RIM HIM AN EYE FOOTPADS CASH CASE AND VALUABLES V 4 v Victim Was on n His Way WaVy Home Short Shortly Shortly Shortly ly Before Midnight When He Was Attacked By Two Highwaymen Who Inflicted Serious Wounds on Rim Him Dr Daniel proprietor of the Lion drug store and president of the Mining company was held up and robbed by two tIO tw footpads Ju just JUM t be before tore fore midnight last lut evening In resist resisting ing l ng t their attack he was struck three times in n the fee face f with the handle of or a revolver this his his face being horribly man mn mangled and one eye so badly cut that it itis itis itis is not likely that it can an be saved aved The thugs secured se a gold wath valued at Its and a little over oer 5 5 in money Dr was going home from his drug store He HI had up the store sore and put the k kf ky y in his pocket and left eft The thugs doubtless saw him leave and supposed that he wa WU taking tho t p money from the till home Just below Delow Sixth South street where trees rendered it Impossible ble to see ee any dis distance tance two men jumped out from the and pinned hands behind him Fought For Freedom He struggled with them in an effort to free fr himself from th their r grasp gm P and andone andone andone one of ot them raised his hie pistol and struck the doctor three times full in tie the face The blows dazed him and he sank senk to the ground the other on of oC the men taking him by b the throat and choking him so 90 that he could not scream They then went through h his pockets and quickly disappeared After they had bad gone Dr staggered to his da feet and in a dazed way wa proceeded on towards tO his home horne Some street car men n found him and took look him to Dr residence re Dr telephoned to the police I and in the meantime gave guys every ev ry attention The exits cuts on his lace face were dressed and his eye well ban Dr Root also made an n exam examination examination of or the eye ye Injuries Are A e Severe Owing to its swollen condition noth nothing nothIng n th thing ing Quid could be told as 88 e to whether the eye could t lx b o saved and Dr did everything possible p for the injured man and when had recovered recovered recovered I ered sufficiently he was sent home in a carriage The eye ye was given hot water treatment to reduce the swelling and an examination will be made today There is a cut also on the forehead that thet may be a fracture and Dr Witcher regards the Injuries in every way as serious Dr is 60 CO years old and the wounds are the more serious on that account He could give no description of ot Ute the men n m and the police have no clue on which to work He was choked so fiercely that he could hardly hally talk and the Information J that he gave to the police pollee was us as meager r |