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Show Makes Aute-Morteiu Sfafemenl .jjil Saying His Shooting Was ,;-'jj!;J Without Provocation. I ' i lj JfEGRO TO BE CIIAKGBD WITH I . ffl MURDER IN FIRST DEGREE V'hjjj ftegro, Upon Hearing of Fane's ' , '1 Death, Expresses Solicitude I ' for His Victim. I .J,j . VTWTWTrWWr i .... rv r I 1 ti'jil v Fane's Dying Statement. ! I i 'j'i'i. t v "Believing that 1 am dying. 1 moko B 'I ) ' I v this lull atfitcincnt: Sunday night, y ' fi'; about 1) o'clock, March i:, 1'JIO, I Wood and I walked up to a lire on .- I .( '; ! r the street, .surrounding which was a y (M;;j' r- crowd of young boys and a long v jl.p , j negro. Wc were at the Hie not more v h'W'1 thnji three or four seconds when v t-W. i ; the negro pulled his gun and shot v I hV'il .J- two or three times at mo without -I- JfilJ v saving a word. One of the bullets j Mjl , 1 . entered my abdomen. I ran almost - ' . )jri ton feet and fell, and then about t , v twenty feet, and then I got up and v ' .'s.' , 4. walked to the Colorado house, from ,!:'(i where 1 was taken to the police sta- v ' i n- I ilon. That same night, at the police . (,'" j station, I saw and identified the I i'l 3 negro who shot me; that Is. the ! 'h;i. negro I saw at the station strongly v I i; ' resembled the man who shot inc. and ! , !; '. I thought he was the man; I knew y i 1 4. It was he, pretty nearly " Signed y . ,w 'i nnd sworn to before Assistant Conn- v 1 ImM tv Attorney Bowman al St. Mark's ,, Y hospital at .6 o'clock I-'rlday even- y I t' l After making the foregoing deposition, ( '?jj 9 Archie Fane of Tyler. Tex., who was "'Vfji'j Bhot luat Sunday night through the ' 'a I nbdomcn by L. M. Duncan, a night Kjjli; watchman, employed at Fifth "West ;'! J nnd First North streets by the James 1 jjjl'J Kennedy Construction company, died jjf at 0:45 o'clock Friday night at St. Mark's vnj'J' hospital, to which place he was taken kiB ' after the shooting on First North and ff ! Fifth 'West streets last Sunday night. , -M No arrangements for the funeral of Fane have been made. ,tS Duncan will be charged with murder 1 f illi in the lirst degree this morning. When ,' r( seen at the city jail and told of the 7 I death of Fane, Duncan said: .J ;jG "Well. that. Is t'00 bad." ' :;S Duncan then told the story of the shoot- rt I, Jng he related the nlglit he went to the ; ',: station and gave himself up. Through- ,? - f nut he has steadily claimed that he shot , f 'j Fane In self-defense. f Fane was employed as a blacksmith s "'llX helper In the Denver & Rio Grande rall- L'i voail shops, and .Tames Wood, a. boller- u'-; maker's helper, employed There, too. is 1 ' f the man referred to In the deposition by t-. y Fane. "Wood told the police that Dun- tS- can had sh6t the wiong man and that he 1 was the man who had argued wilh the "!('!. negro. |