Spanish Fork Press | 1905-10-19 | Page 2 | Dastardly Crime Committed

DASTARDLY CRIME COMMITTED Man Lured from Australia for the Purpose Pur-pose of Robbery and Murder Berkeley Ca1A daring plot to lure an Australian sporting man William Wil-liam E Ellis to a quiet place In Berkeley and there murder and rob him of c 1000 In Kngltsh currency which he had on his person wan partially par-tially carried Wednesday afternoon by a man and woman whom the police po-lice believe to bo desperate crooks They had persuaded Ellis to coma with them to America and race horses aero They brought Ellis from a hotel In Oakland to a cottage on 2214 Ells worth street n stones throw from tho 1 University of California bade him sit down to lunch then crushed his skull i i In with a hammer Tho woman tired two shots at him as he lay prostrate The crooks rilled his pockets of an amount equal nearly to 5000 in American money then leaving their I o victim for dead hurriedly left tho house and made their escape Ellis regained consciousness and staggered to tho California stables two blocks away on Allston way and from there was carried to Roosevelt hospital whero tho doctors found he had a fractured skull Ho Is In a precarious condition