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Show BANK CLERK KILLED; JflY-fHDERS ESCAPE Chauffeur Arrested in San Francisco in Connection With Cowardly Act. SAX FRAXCISCO, Dec. 25. r.ouia Kantour, a chauffeur, was arrested late today and held in connection with the killing of James W. MoDermotl. a bank teller, who was run down and killed by joy-riders here early today. Kantour works for Ray Knight, u real estate dealer. lie went. to his employer's homo at 2:30 o'clock this morning and asked for some money, saying ho hud "hit a man." Knight, on hearing of the death of ilcDermott, called up tho police and told this fact. Kantour told (ho pollco he had mado tho excuse that he had hit a man because be-cause he needed money. He denied that he had hit anybody. Kantour turned his machine In at Its garage at 2;'l0 a. m. It was damagod, but employees nt the garage said that tho damages were old ones, As McDermolt was returning to his home early today ho was run down by an automobile and left dying at a Market Mar-ket street cornor, In the heart of tho business district. His sull was. fractured, both his legs were broken and his chest was caved in. Ho died shortly after in tho Central emergency hospital. A more brutul murder would ibe hard to imagine. IMcDermott's limp body became be-came entangled in the running gear of tho low-slung powerful runabout, but the j two men In the car. Instead of stopping, or oven slowing down, turned on more and more power, until the car fairly tore itself loose. McDermolt was dragged fully 100 feet. As a patrol wagon came clanging down the street it passed tho runaway automobile auto-mobile going In tho opposite direction, but the pollco were ignorant of what they were wanted for and the death car got away. |