Show I NOTED ROBBER ENDS HiS LIFE KillS Kl Himself H at ef Df DI DIvorced Wife t I OfFICERS IN CLOSE PURSUIT t 4 07 01 0 THa iii Dr cn Y YS S St t t S SC C AK N Oct It 11 S by Ity fear ot of arrest in with Wit the robbery 1 bb rY of the tIIe tan taD hotel at t Point Richmond test Jut ait arday night George Nottingham Not SOB s of a wealthy and prominent resident Dt of o Walnut creek shot and killed Mist aim self alt in the room of his former wife wit at atHoe t tl l Hoe Noe street this morning Notting Nottingham lIon ham who was waa also 10 known mown as William Win wm was a structural iron worker by It trade He lie has ba frequently been in trouble with the police and anti was w only DIT Iy recently released from San Su Q where he served nerved one oae term for highway robbery robber The robbery at Point Richmond waa wa committed committe by George Nottingham an and his brother Walter Waiter and after the rob iob of the hotel botel the two men mea 0 I their escape going in the tot at of West Berkeley Deputy put Sheriff S SI Mai tosa toza and Lindley were w re informed af of t I robbery and started in pursuit a aas U seen as a possible Battle at tu With Officers At Munday saloon on the theof of San Pablo and University av aT avin aTin vu vuin in West Berkeley the two deputies de met the brothers and Maitoza spoke t tie 5 them not suspecting that he had hadovee over overtaken I taken the men who he be was after an Th IM four were in conversation for bet abea two minutes when suddenly Nottingham ham Jumped behind his t drew two revolvers and opened fc pulled his gun and mid the Ore fire S The brothers then retreated down University avenue toward the West Berkeley Barkeley station Maitoza and ad LIM LAad LIMley ley Icy followed closely and kept up the fight After the battle had covered nearly two blocks the men Jumped be lie behind behind hind some seine bushes and made oft off In the U darkness e Walter Waiter Nottingham the younger OC Of the two men was 1 arrested at Martina last night and made a complete con confession The whereabouts of the elder eider brother could not be ascertained e al aJ although a though h it was W suspected that be he He bad made his bl escape to this side of the bay tY Detectives Ryan Rvan and Taylor were de tie detailed tailed to 10 keen keea a close watch for him aha ci on this side and It is 18 supposed ed that Nottingham seeing that all aJI his bf aye ave avenues of escape were cut off oft decided to i end ond his hie hI life Ute Shields at Bedside Early this morning he be entered en the a am room m of Hattie Nottingham N his di dl divorced dIVOrced wife who lived Uy with her father Thomas Scott at 1 Noe street s add seated himself on the side Ide of the bed Leaning over her he be kissed his ate di creed w wife ife and Win forgive me Hattie Before startled woman bad had time to realize rea ehat what hat he bf was going Flog to do two pistol I shots allots rang rane out and aDd the lifeless Dotty by ef e Nottingham Net fell to the floor With witte Wi th t blood from t two bIdI avast V wound woun in la the left It breast Nearly erased crazed by the terrible tern sight the woman ran screaming from tI the t room and called for or assistance A physician was called call d in but to found on OD ODe examining e the body that the man died The dead de d man left a note In which he be exonerated his bis brother of O intentional wrongdoing saying that be he committed the crime and forced W brother broter to participate in it while he George was under the baneful mOn nce of some drug The brothers are suspected d q of aC the tile holdup and robbery of some orne treks I men in Berkeley on Saturday night t tand and the police of this city have dis discovered as dl covered that the two brothers brother were v concerned in several highway ht robberies ro roand and saloon holdups which have oc occurred in this city during the past NUIt few months At least half balf a dozen dosen saloons have been held beld up by masked mea nii mei the success of the robberies being bel mare mitre or Jess varied but the aggregate mont amount t of the booty secured by the robbers robI was large The methods methode of the saloon Iota in this city were almost identical with those tb se adopted by the Nottingham Not brothers in the Point Richmond BIdI holdup S |