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Show MlUT IIV A IWUULAIt. Iho Particular! or Ihe Slioollog, at Ogitee, ."nnila j Sight. riierolluwln account or tho shooting, shoot-ing, at Oglen, oti Hunday night ap-s.sn-d In the Miirnfarrf this niornlngi t'lmrles Melglisn, of Ihe nbstrait firm of Ave) A. Metghan, wai ttiot through Ihe left lung by a burglar who entered hla room at 4a.ru. JcstcrJay nisrnlog. The I articular A! re ccivnl frrm Iho Injuretl nun Are nvcenairtly tirlef. He stall that tie went lo bis ladling on rwenly.rourtli Ixtween Adims and Jeirnson at lOfi'clock Bumlsy night He sat up and wrote some letters aud lead until about uilJulglit when hu retired. Aluut 4 a. m. ho wss awakened by a noise 1-eulbg from one corocr ol the room. He at unce re-.llr.rl that a burglar hid entered his clumlier and waa i imaged In robbing; his trunk, itn Jumnduii to grapple with the Intruder In-truder In the hope mat a g otlemsn In the adjoining aptrtmenl who was silling sil-ling up with a sick friend would come to hit arUf.nce on heitlnglho scuttle. As ho n as ah oil ti rotrh forlhelMld thief the Utter kisIkI a Min to wlihln six Inches of his breast nod lire I. Thn bullet struck n little alvve the left nipple, passeil tbruugh tho left lung and went out at thu back, afterward) being found In his shirt. Melghan fell on his facets he saw Ibe fellow die appear through the open door. The revolt i r which did the shooting waa round a few feet from the viiitm, having ticca dropped by the thief In his hurry. He got away with over two hundred dollars, however, which he had srcureil before wsklng up thu owner, The Hunk wo the onlydla-arraugod onlydla-arraugod article In tin, room. On luarlng the shot tho man In the adjoining room rushe J In an t followed outaftir the burglar, but all trauo was lost of him, though a woman residing In a house un thu east 1 said to linvo si en him clambering ovtr a fence. No clue ha been aecured of the would-be-murderer. Word wa at once sent to a tiliysl claii ntiil Dr. Grave and Dr, Gordon Alteudel. Late last evening he was still alive though It was dnubtrul that he would live until morning. Al 3 o'clock this morning the wounded man waa vietled and there were hoe of 111 living until after daj light. The doctor has strong hoi of bis recovery If hu pulls through today. |