Show I j IIA VE KILLED I MY MAN WHAT SHALL SHALLI I DO 00 NOW Query Sent by Telegraph Operator Who Had Just Slain Robber Who Vho Attacked Him PITTSBURG Pa Sept 23 I 3 I have been attacked b by a bur burglar lar and have lost my ear I have hae killed m my man thou though h. h What hat shall shaU I do now This message leaked Into the dispatchers dispatcher's office In Pittsburg from flom Ford CitY In a n moment the train dispatcher was talking to Carl E E. who was sending the message The dispatcher her asked that th the message be repeated Slowly the o operator at the other end began to talk Ho He stammered over o the wire and anil finally the Instrument failed to click altogether Ford City's ke key was open I r People In the town were called from and hurried down to the little telegraph office where they found Carl E E. E Reichard the telegrapher lying across across the table with blood pouring from tram a wound In his head Ho was just returning to consciousness In his left leCt hand he clasped a n. revolver cr On the floor lay a young tough with a red handkerchief tied over oyer the lower portion potIon of or his face The top of ot his head had beer been blown almost entirely away and he was dead end Eul Early in the morning Reichard sitting silting at his ke key heard a voice behind him sa say Throw up your our hand hands He turned to see a C man with a n. revolver I covering co him Helch rd was on his feet like a flash and jumped at nt the burglar I The Tho bur burglar lal fired and took car awn away aay and In the tenth part of ot a second second sec see ond Reichard and the Intruder were locked In the embrace which meant death to the weaker Every chair and table In the room was overturned or broken broke it Inthe Inthe in inthe the struggle for or the revolver The blood from the wounded operator gushed over ocr both a as he fought for forthe forthe forthe the weapon At last he got it and turning it against the body hody of or his lila a assailant fired the ball passing through the stomach The burglar fell Reichard th then n poured shot phot hot after atter shot hot Into his late assailant until the charges were gone Then as the bod body stiffened out In death he reached for Cor his ke key sent the message to Pittsburg an and fell tell in a faint The dead burglar proves to bo ho Charles Andrews who had just been re released released re- re leased from Riverside penitentiary The Coroners Coroner's Jury exonerated Reichard |