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Show THAT MfOOTlNO Arr'AlK. A Statement by Policemen O'ltelirT and l'oole and Mr. Anderson. Polioeuiou OTtcilcy nod Toole, who have licon charged with rvcklcsly shooting nt n man mimed (iillespio. called at 'J'llK TlMKS ittliee today and made thn following statement iu regard to tho affair: On Sunday night, after 12 o'clock, while in tho'viciiiity of Second South and Fifth West slree'ls, they lie.ird some one cry out as if for aiitauoo and they next heard a shot, at about a block distant, dis-tant, near Third South and Fourth West. They hurried there, ami found a mail named Anderson and two young limn, who said that. Anderson had been hold up mot robbed, and that the robbers rob-bers had gone down Fourth WiM 'Km two policemen .started after I hem, and when they had gone about four rods they discovered a man standing in tho shadow of a tree. They called on him In throw up his hands, and jut as they did a shot ue tired, but Ihey could nut tell where it came from. " Tho bullet, however, passed near tho policemen. Tho man man in the shade dodged aiming the I rets, and the ollicers again culled on him to hull and throw up his hands. Ho paid no attention to ihein, however, hut dadicd across the street. The two oHioots thou lired two shots each into the air. The fugitive disappeared ho hind the residence of Charles 1'aikcr, and noon boiiis; NiimmAned to come out he did so. "1 have no iron on me, and you can search me," said the man. lie w as searched ami no w eapon w as found on him. After somo talk the man, w ho Have his name as (iillespio, was permit per-mit led (0 ((11. Anderson, Hit: man who wan held up, also called at TtiK Timhs. otlice and cor-roboraled cor-roboraled the statement, of the policemen. police-men. Anderson was robbed by two men, who got about $11. He states that tho ollieers, buforr shooting, repeatedly repeat-edly called upon (iillespio to halt and throw up his liands. (iillespio, who Is employed lit tho Sierra Nevada lumber yards, has made a complaint against the policemen upon their own demand, an they wish a lull investigation. |