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Show SOLDIER SHOT BY MEXICAN MAY DIE CALEXTCO, Cal., Dec. 2fl. Scott Red-field, Red-field, a private in troop B of Portland, Ore., who was shot through the side here today by a Mexican, was being rushed to a hospital in San Francisco late todav. His chances for recovery were reported to be slight. According to Captains White and Houck, Redficld was seeking his residence and got into the wrong house. He knocked at the door of a house said to be occupied hy a Mexican checker In I the Mexican customs house, and the latter lat-ter is nlled to have shot through the door. The bullet pierced Redfield's liver. (Military authorities are investigating the shooting, but no arrests have been made. |