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Show HE DIED JF FillCHT. Tbo Taking off of a Touwg M;m Said to E.tvo Been Prtcipilatod by a jt Eobbery. 0 : a EELD UP IJT A J3AE BOOM. And Taken In by tho Ubiquitous Gates Q and Glenn rk kings From CI tho Police. I'olire circles were somewluil ajitate.l fa and prejudice intensilird during the Q day l y the announcement that young H W ood's death had been hastened, if not directly Biiperin.lu.'ed by the assault H thai was made on him and l is brother Q by John Curran, the alleged burglar U and cracksman, who comes into " the district court for trial to- r. morrow. Curran was arrested :2 some time ago for grand larceny W and after arraignment was being taken Jj to the penitentiary for coulineuient J pending his trial. It was while they were being taken to prison that four of the men made their escape. To replenish re-plenish his exchequer Curran made att attack on Mr. Newton Wood's residence that night ami succeeded in. holding up tho boys for $1G0 and a gold watch, the latter being on his person when arrested by Sheriff Burt. At the timo young Wood was iu a critical condition and the impression prevails that death was to a large extent ex-tent precipitated by tho shock. Ilia father attributes it to" inllamatory rheumatism. rheu-matism. A Uold A win .lit. Two tough looking customers registering regis-tering ns Joo Doo and Kd Murphy were bagged by Sergeant Gates and of, licer (ilenn about 9 o'clock last evening and run down into the bastile on charges charg-es of petty larceny and robbery. The prisoners had 'lured James llaster, a working man, into a saloon, sa-loon, and when the latter produced a live dollar gold piece in payment for drinks. They seized the change and shot from the door with Master in pursuit. Tho ollicers. attracted at-tracted by the cries of the victim, joined in the chase, and tho men were overtaken and arrested. W hen searched at police headvuarters, tho change was found ou the person of one of tho men. The cases were set for 4 o'clock this afternoon before J udgo Laney. Ho Hail Nnakea. , A fellow giving his name as Smith was apprehended down near the Rio Grande depot last evening while sawing saw-ing the air with a Japanese sword-cano and removed to the city jail, where he bogau to roar and writhe with delinnm tremens. All night he was haunted by grinning hallucinations, and this moruv ing was turned over to his ffieuda who , ; ' i: - removed him to bis apartments ami s v procured medical attendant.. f ' ' r . Kiubeszlemeiit Case. ' '( f' -" ' '.'..: Tho examination of conductors John . and George Chugj; and the whjf of tho former on charges of embey -ng un canceled tickets from tho Unl-WPacifio railway was set for 3 o'clock this afternoon after-noon before Judge Laney. A great deal of interest is manifested iu tha trial that is attracting a largo attendance. atten-dance. Police l'irkinir., , Thomas Fryer and James White, who) were arrested for petty larceny, were this morning discharged. William Lester was run in last night for assault. ' ' George Bock got iu the course of thfl official drag net last night and is now held for vagrancy. Fiie drunks paid tho penalty this morning. Sheriff Belknay of Ogden, overtook the youth for whom he was hunting, up iu Cottonwood canon. Lent Swank, recently arrested by tho police for a murder committed near Pueblo is said to be in chancery. The watch of which tho dead man's body was robbed was found in San Francisco and Sank identified as tho person who had pawned it. Kelley. who was taken back by Sheriff Lem Johnson of Colorado Springs, was convicted and sentenced to twenty-six years in tho penitentiary. |