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Show TWO BRML VICTIMS; SOLDIERSJ.RRESTED Merchant, Protecting Seff From Attack, Shoots By-stander, By-stander, Is Claim. John Purella, proprietor of a soft drink stand at 217 South West Temple street, and George Kouisto, 72 West Third South street, were treated early this morning at the emergency -hospital, the first-named for three severe scalp wounds and the last for a gunshot wound just below the heart. Two soldiers of the Twentieth .infantry, J. McGregory, 21 j'ears old, and L. Glad-son, Glad-son, 24. were arrested shortly afterward by Patrolmen J. A. Conyers and A. L. Thorpe, who lodged them in the city jail pending investigation of tire circumstances circum-stances surrounding the assault upon Purella and the shooting of Kouisto. According to Purella, the two soldiers and a third entered his place shortly before be-fore midnight and refused to leave at closing time. When he attempted to eject them, he says, they attacked him, breaking several bottles of near-bear on liis head and finally hitting him with a heavy cuspidor. Thereupon Purella seized his revolver and emptied it at the soldiers, following them into the street and firing the last shot outside. The shot struck Kouisto as he was emerging from the door of a restaurant adjoining Purella's place,' but inflicted only a flesh wound, as it passed through four inches of wood in the door-casing door-casing before it struck him. According to the police, the third soldier sol-dier made good his escape, while McGregory Mc-Gregory and Gladson were found hiding in the alley near by. They are searching for the third man. |