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Show MOTIVE OF PRIEST'S ASSAILANT A MYSTERY CHICAGO, Oct. 10. Search for the man who ye.sto.rday fired upon Rev. Father J. It. Fielding, assistant rector of Corpus Chrlstl church, wus renewed with energy today, every available detective in the Hyde Park district being detailed to run down the would-be murderer. The motive of the man Is a mystery. "Whether ho .shot because of a sudden Insane Impulse, whether he feared arrest, or whether ho Is a member of some anticlerical anti-clerical band. Is not known. ' The fact that, he llrod upon the priest only after tho latter betrayed his suspicions suspi-cions of tho loiterer by questioning him, Is said by the detectives to lend color to the theory that the man was a pickpocket pick-pocket who practiced pilfering from church-goers. |