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Show BOY IS VICTIM OF I his oi cmi Hp 1 , Retribution Conies Quickly for ' 1 Lads Who Started Career , of Theft. I: 1 ONE FATALLY WOUNDED i BY WEAPON HE STOLE I ! : H Companion Makes Full Confes-J Confes-J ' sion ; They Tried to Emulate II Noted Desperadoes. I SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27. Ter-1 Ter-1 A . riblo justice was visited upon two I J boy burglars early today. Ono of IfB them lies dying with his nbdomen half I'd 8l,0t away by a riQe which ho stole .'fi with other plunder last night. The ml other lad is in a prison cell, where ho Kf ha8 sobbiugly conlessecl his cnmo. Ml The dying' boy is August Schwartz, Wt 13 vears old, nnd the doctor who is at-mt at-mt tending him in his home, at, Iso. 8 Ga- I via street, says the patient has no My chance. His accomplice is August Pal-jj Pal-jj lnssou, only ono year older. Pallassou s ln father owns a mill: ranch at Hamilton If f and Bounden streets, and it was while r , driving an earlv morning milk route I 1 that the two clnldrcn, scarcely out of . 1 1 short trousers, becamo cracksmen. L. ( Last, night the storo of the Imperial f fr Arms company, nt Van Noss avenue and Market street, was burglarized. The door had been pried open by a L piece of gas pipo, which bad boon P. hamniorcd on the end until it presented f the chisel edgo of a jimmy. The booty b consisted of four heavy 30.30 Win-p Win-p 1 Chester rifles, ten boxes of cartridges l-r and a case of razors all the youthful thieves could carry. Ki Visions of Nick Carter, i; Visions of "Buffalo Bill" and n I "Nick Carter" adventures in their f minds, the two boys climbed into k the milk wagon and drovo homeward It- -with their plunder. When they Fa I reached the outlying districts Pallas-iq Pallas-iq i son suggested that they try one of JHT, the stolen rifles. Accordingly they fr j. filled the magazine with shells, but in j their eagerness for a shot they forgot i to lower the hammer as they threw f'tj back the lever. 7i August Schwartz was to fire first. I. jj As ho climbed out of the wagon he f dropped the rifle to the ground and I i, started to use it. as a support while ho j dismounted. Suddenly there was a lj shart report and Schwartz fell faco t $ 1 forward in die mud, and the frightened f. I horses began to run, !'i Pallassou pulled up the snorting ft'' ' animals and hurried back to tho I v , wounded boy. He summoned help and Schwartz was carried to his home, a y't j short distance away. Pallassou has-Jf has-Jf , tened away to hide the stolen weapons. y ! I Meanwhile Manager E. J. Kaplan ' of the Imperial Arms company had re-I' re-I' ported to the police tho looting of his I . store. Detectives were assigned to the 1 . I case, but just boforc they left the reft re-ft j port came in that a bov had been W' wounded on the San "Bruno road. Er i Shrewdly connecting the two episodes, 1 they started for Schwartz's home. The i officers have been able to establish that ; the two boys have been committing a ! series of crimes and detectives believe W: that they are guilty of manj' recent W burglaries. |
