Show MURDERS HIS Ml AT GATtf OTGEIVIETERY :Real Estate Dealer Kills Banker on San Fernando Road in California By International New er ce LOS AlsGELE'' Dec 23 B rt W fi chardson vice president of the First Nat onal bank of Tropico Ca million aire land owner n that sect on and formerly a res dent of Chicago was shot and killed this morning at the entrance to tho Forest Lawn cemetery upon the Saa Fernando road by Thomas Mizar a real estate dealer Following a pec tacular pursuit by a posse of armed men and vomen in which twenty hots were exchanged Mizar confes ed the killing to his wife and s rrendered h s weapon to her in their home at 119 Palmer street Tropico The real estate dealer ascribed an inc dental quarrel over the leasing of land as the mot ve for the slaying Before M zar was formally taken n to custody by Deputy Sheriffs Fox and N olen the 1 ves of ten c t sens and a number of school ch ldren had been d rectly endangered Once in fleeing from the scene of the crm e M zar drew h s revolver and fired pomtblank at a dep uty constable A moment later he ran into a cro d of school ch ldren to pre vent Dep ty Marshal Fa rfield and Dep uty Constable Tolera fron shooting him The presence of the children saved M zar from leath M zar s exc tement and h s poor a m alone saved the 1 fe of Will E chard son nephew of the man mho was killed fter shoot ng Burt TV K chardson Mi zar turned h s revolver upon the nephew and fired n ss ng 1 ra by a narrow mar gin Several spectators including Dep uty C ty Marshal Fairfield had watched tha shooting hardly real z ng at first that a murder was be ng comm tted in the r presence They had mi taken the action for a nov ng p cture scene and t vas not nt 1 the K chardsons were recocn zed that the pursu t was taken up n earnest R chardson who as 50 years old leaves a w dow and two children He as born in Cle eland Oh o 1 ved there until he was 30 jears old and then re mo ed to Ch cago where he amassed a fortune through owning the conces s ons at L ncoln park |