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Show POLICEMAN'S SIT IS JUSTJN TIE Ex-cofivict Defies Three Officers Offi-cers and Points Rifle at Advancing Ad-vancing Patrolman. "Come anothnr stop and I will kill you," said Kdward Syphua, a laborer, 5" years of age, living at (5 Portland avenue, as he stood in front of lm residence and defied three policemen, after having driven his wife and daughter daugh-ter out of the house with a rifle at 7 o'clock last uipht. Ah Syphua spoke he aimed the rifle, a .22 caliber, at Mounted Patrolman K. 0. Willoy. not more than a rod distant, dis-tant, and pulled the trigger. The shell in the gun missed fire, but a report from Patrolman Willoy 'a revolver was followed 13' a lurch in the figure of Syphus, the Tiflo dropping away from bis shoulder. Patrolman Byron Crosby, Cros-by, Chauffeur William Hooper and Jailer Tom Gillespie had meantime rushed forward from the patrol standing stand-ing in tho avenue and overpowered the man with the rifle. When taken to police headquarters and attended hy Dr.'irardie Lynch, .Syphus was found to have been hot dangerously wounded by tho shot from the policeman's revolver. re-volver. Tho bullet entered tho left sido, in tho region of the seventh rib and travoling close to the spine emerged a little lower on the other sido. No ovidence of serious damago could be discovered Inst night, and tho wounded man walked from the emergency hospital hos-pital into the boys' ward, where he was lodged. Syphus recently completed a term pf six mouths iu the state prison for ftn assault upon his daughter with a knife. He is a henvy dnnkor. Last night he declared that he had intended to Kill himself with tho rifle. Later in the evening ho sent for Patrolman Willoy and said' he was glad the cartridge in the -rifle had failed to explode and assured as-sured tho policeman that he did not blame him for firing. |