Show I SUPPOSED ROBBER SHOT Entire Lower Jaw and Portion of His Throat Shot Away by Member Mem-ber of Posse I St Louis April 1OTI means of the rural telephone service In the vicinity of ISdwardsvllle Til eighteen miles cast of here a posse = of farmers was I quickly summoned today to capture two supposed > robbers and In the light that followed Frank Charles of Mobile Ala one of the two men was probably fatally shot and his companion escaped es-caped after a threemile chase 1 Early today two farm houses were entered by robbers and provisions were taken from one place and a tent from I the second The farmers Charles Glass and Henry Hcndrlcks notified Cbhnta ble Lawrence of East Alton by phone and then summoned neighboring farmers I farm-ers by l the same means Immediately heavilyarmed farmers answered the I call callThe The robbers had taken night In a buggy and when the posse came upon a buggy containing two men and to which a tent was strapped on the outside out-side thc occupants were ordered to surrender The men laughed but did not offer violence Farmer Glass took a shotgun from the buggy and with an oath one of j l the supposed robbers drew a revolver 1 and fired at Constable Lawrence mlss i 1 lag him The Constable returned the fire with a revolver to no effect Just I Uti the supposed robber aimed again Farmer Glass shot him through the Jaw with a shotgun The other man fled and after going three miles the posse lost track of bin1 The Injured man was given medical attention and not being able to talk wrote his name as Frank Charles Mobile Mo-bile Ala His entire lower jaw wan shot away and a portion of big throat and ho may die |