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Show IYOONG BURGLAR IS FATAUTWOIHIIEe ! Physicians Say TJiat Edgar Ames,- Shot by Albert Rioh-I Rioh-I ardson, Will Die. i : INJURED MAX TS NOW AT ST. MARK'S HOSPITAL :T:ve Been Playing in. Hard I -. Luck," nis Excuse for Turning Burglar. . i Edgar Ames, tho young man who. was shot and fatally wounded oarly Friday morning by Albert Richardson, proprietor pro-prietor of the Portland bakery at 550 .Second East street,' as' exclusively an-. an-. nounccd in The Tribune, is at St. Mark's hospital suffering great agony , aud no. gropes aro entertained for his recovery. . . . Ames wao in the act of stealing a quantity of flour and' sugar from the bakery when Richardson, who had boon bine in wait for burglars who had entered the bakory several times in tho past week, ordered him .to throw up his hands and surrender. Listead of doing as he, was told, Ames ran out. through th'i door as rapidly as he could, in an attempt . to escape. Biohardson fired his revolver at the man, and tho bullet totik effect in Ames's back juEt above and to the left of the right hip. The bullet passed under tho right ribs, turned downward . in its' qoursc ana pierced tho intestines. Physicians say that Ames cannot recover. When the ball struck Ama- ho shrieked with pain, but did not stop in his mad break for freedom. .Richardson, .Richard-son, realizing that he had shot the man; thought he could not run' far. and pursued him. Ames, made a bohJ attempt at-tempt lo get away, but his -birfngth rni-if.ly failed him and, after, Tunning s black, ho gave himser up. Polico Are Notified. Police headquarters was -lo'tfifd of the attempted burglary ana idiooting; and' several officers n trrie-i tho scero in the patrol wagon. Ames was taken to the emergency luf.pitai in tho i citv jail, where Dr. Stew:r5 wished nncl djfssed the wound, and biter tho wounded. man was removed to St. Mark's hospital. Although rendered unconscious by the wound, Ames suffered suf-fered great pain, and no -soon e had the attending physician made an examination-cr the injury than .10 expressed ex-pressed himself as fearing' the man wtuld not recover. "iigj;r: Ames, who is 26 years old, is rjamed it-' hen a wife and three chaldron. chal-dron. T!'i' Ames home is at 141 North Fourth' "West street, and after the shooting Mrs. . Ames was notified of tf9 affair by Sergeant John Roberts. ' The eldest- child of tho couple will be J years old in April and the-young-oil, is' but 7 months old, The. police made a thorough nves ligation of' the" shooting and lound material ma-terial which had been piled up by Arises 'in the bakery preparatory to his carrying it out and placing it. in a fcieigh which he had on tho outside to Qt'dv, .away, the loot. Kichardsoi) Tolls Story. . I Albert'Richardson, who did the shooting, shoot-ing, went'-to police headquarters ea'rly Friday morning and told his story to the oilictrs lie said that Ames gained entrance teethe building by climbing onto a. bain, in the rear and along the roof to a window in tho bakory, which Ib never fastened. "I heard 'him coming. and waited until ho had lighted tho electric light an-.1, sfattcd totake flour and sugar before be-fore 3 crdercd.him. to throw up his' hands," Richardson said. "Instead of doing'ns 1 told im ho turned and ran, with the result -that I fired the revolver. re-volver. '' Richarlson expressed- regret that the man was so badly injured. Ames was formerly employed by the Portland bakery and recently has been baking cakes at his home and peddling them. Both Ames and his, wife at one time weie employed the Postal telegraph tel-egraph 'of lice doing rjanitor work. Severn! Sev-ern! months ago Ames, was arrested on the charge of stealing two typewriters, bus alter he had spent some time ui nail the case was dismissed. Ames-told The Tribune Friday .morning.' .morn-ing.' wh'le lying in 1 he emergency' hospital, hos-pital, that, tic was playing ill bard Juck, being out of work, and that is who'-, drove him to stoitliug. The man ma;.-- linger for several days. |