Show 5 HELD UP AND HUNG UP James Gibson Tells How Robbers Threw Him on Fence Causing Caus-ing Dangerous Wound James Gibson of 23S East Fourth South claims that he had a meeting with the two holdups Thursday night near hla home when ho says he was thrown upon a picket fence and hail ono of the sharpened pickets driven Into his neck on the loft side vety near to the jugular vein lie Is very dangerously wounded though It Is not thought fatally About 10 oclock at night he pays the attempted robbery occurred aw ho was m his way to his room at the home of William Carroll the architect The two men he says sprang upon him commanding com-manding him to throw up his hands lie was In the act of doing so when one of them approaching rapidly struck him with something heavy Me was stunned and falling fell across tho picket fence one of the pickets cutting the gash In ils neck He was unable to extricate himself he says and while hanging upon the fence one of the men made a hurried hur-ried search of his pockets but found nothing as his money was all gone They ran swiftly away leaving him there and 10 was a considerable time getting free from the fence When ho reached Mr Carrolls house he immediately lay down upon a couch being too weak from loss of blood to stand There ho was discovered about nil hour later by the owner of the house who Inquired what had happened When Ito heard the Plorv of Gibson Mr Carroll Car-roll at onee notified IMP police of the occurrence oc-currence and the latfiir made an Investigation Inves-tigation but without result Some of the ofllceru discredit the holdup part of Gibsons story saying they believe HIP man simply fell upon the fence Dr VIlcher who attended the Injured man says he bad a very narrow escape is the pointed stick out close lo the Jugu lur vein The wound was quickly closed rind It Is expected that Gibson will soon recover from the mishap |