Show I HEROIC POLICEMAN KILLED > Fought a Band Burglars Single I handed atSouth Bend I South Bend Ind Feb 261 Single handed facing disadvantages of num ters and a murderous ambush In the darkOfficer Louis Kellerof the South Bend police fought until his death last night One of the alleged band of burglars bur-glars who killed hm was mortally wounded The rest of Kellers adversaries adver-saries four in number are In jail and public indignation is at fever heat Shortly before midnight Keller no ticked the back door of a cigar store unlocked and the lights extinguished The policeman went in to investigate and a bullet whizzed past his head A fusilade followed Keller sighting as best he could by the Hashes of the unseen un-seen guns fired rapidly A moment later th j door opened Out rushed a crowd of armed men leaving Keller shot through the heart and dead Officer Derrent alarmed by the shooting shoot-ing had just come up and one of the men ran directly Into his arms Der rent overDowered him and found him wounded He gave his name as Jack I Burke of New York Four men of the midnight marksmen were soon captured cap-tured Robert Powers James Burns Frank OConnor and Frank Monroe all said to be eastern crooks whose field of previous operation has been Montreal Mon-treal and Eufiiio Burke in his dying statement said that he fired the shot which killed Keller I KeIer |