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Show THE J)RTJM3IER SHOOTING. The Victim Reported Somewhat Improved Runtz Still Held to Answer for the Deed. Louis Kuntz is takiug life easy down in prison walls; Charles Evans is making a desperate eitort to baffle deatli over at the hospital. A telephone message was posted at police headquarters during the day instructing the authorities to hold Kuutz, that the victim of his misguided search for the scalp of a burglar burg-lar was somewhat improved and that he would be present to swear out a warrant in a few days. The officers in the mean time have been busy inquiring into the real ingredients in-gredients of the tragic affair, and the friends of the wounded drummer wiil undertake to make it appear that instead of hunting for burglars he was hunting for the parties who had distanced him in the race for a girl. The prisoner still adheres to his story, and feels confident of his ability to show that a most serious affair was caused wholly by accident. |