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Show BANDIT FORCES KIDNAPED GIRL TO B HIS SHtELD FROM BULLETS FRESNO, Cal., July 1. -Using tho bodj of tho jjirl he had kidnaped from her father's house as a shield for his own body, Cleveland Rogers held the nosse that had run him down at bay for half an hour yesterday before finally final-ly surrendering himself "and tho cirl. .The girl, Edna Domcngine, 16 j-ears old, daughter of a wealthy stockman of Coalinga, has been returned to her parents. par-ents. Awakened from a sound sleep by tho sound of the firing of a dozen riflo shots in the yard of her ranch homo in the foothills of the coast range, she stumbled stum-bled out into the night to find herself staring into the muzzles of two threatening threat-ening riflrs held in the hands of a pair of desperadoes. Her father and mother had preceded her and they stood with hands up. Tho whole scene was lighted by the glare of a burning barn which the bandits had fired. Clad only in her night dress, tho young girl stood terrified, staring at tho grotesque scene that met her C3'cs. As she watched, before she had time to realizo what was happening, two of her j father's ranch hands came running to the spot. Instantly ono of the bandits I ordered them to throw up their hands, Tony Lovcall, the leader of the pair, I in the name of his pal and himself, de- j mauded $5000 from Domengine. Domengino declared there was no money in the house. Rogers thereupon forced the young girl to guide him through her" home, pointing out the places where the familj' kept their plate and other valuables. When the senrch revealed nothing tho rufilanB dragged her into the yard onco more, and, harnessing ono of the rigs belonging to Domongiue, bundled Edna into tho buggy and drove off into the night. Domengino made his way to Coalinga Coalin-ga and spread the alarm. Immediately several posses started and at 4:30 .yesterday .yes-terday afternoon Rogers was overtaken at Jack's Springs. Ho fired two shots, but, seeing the armed oil men and ofii-cers ofii-cers swarming in, he gave up. He and the girl wore brought to town in an nutomobile. A big crowd gathered and would have lynched Rogers had not Sheriff Crittenden pleaded with them not to take tho law into their own 1 hands. Loveall managed to escape. Miss I Domengino said the men offered no af-I af-I front to her. |