Show MAN IS RENDERED UNC UNCONSCIOUS DY PIPE Apparently Lay for More Than One Hour Before Help Was Summoned I. I REASON FOR ATTACK REMAINS MYSTERY Store Owner Says Cash Register gistel Evid Evidently Was Not Tampered With Slugged over over- the head with a aPiece apiece apiece Piece of or rusted one inch Iron pipe while he hc he was showing a suitcase to toa toa a a. a prospective customer Joe Zimmerman Zim Zim- merman ox operator of a mens men's furnishing furnishing fur fur- store 23 West Second South street apparently laid unconscious on the floor for more moro than one hour Wednesday morning Mystery surrounds the purpose of the slugger Nothing of Value could be foun missing from the store The cash r register gister which contained several everal dollars had not n been opened It wa was discovered upon investigation tion Hon by Zimmerman when he re regained regained re- re gained consciousness NOTIFIED WIFE In a dazed condition the injured man man crawled to the te telephone and notified his wife Mrs Irs Zimmerman Zimmerman Zimmer Zimmer- man man the store from her home at 59 First avenue She called Dr Abraham LipIds Lipkis who at attended attended attended at- at tended Zimmerman and ordered him r removed moved to his home Examination r revealed the man had sustained long lacerations on each cad side of ot his head During the time he was unconscious unconscious unconscious un un- un- un conscious Zimmerman lost a considerable con con- quantity of blood After After the doctor had been been- summoned sum sum- Mrs Zimmerman called In William Bray of ot th the Chesapeake cafe and Fred Leonard of the Cul- Cul Continued on page 4 MAN IS RENDERED UNCONSCIOUS BY BLOW WITH PIPE Continued from page 1 len hotel botel Mr Leonard Leunard notified Patrolman George TOLD OFFICERS Detectives s R. R I L. L Eddington and B B. II H. Seager Investigated In a half-dazed half condition Zimmerman managed to to tell the officers the slugger lugg r entered the atole some time after atter 9 o'clock and expressed a de desire desire desire de- de sire to look at a suitcase Apparently selecting nl a suitcase e the stranger stanger nger walked walled out saying he would return later and get the case i Within a half hour half hour the m man n was I tack kick Zimmerman said Mid he noticed what appeared to be a roll roU of newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper stuffed in one of ot the mans man's pockets i After lift her 11 the suitcase from a shelf and setting it in to front of the supposed customer Zimmerman Limmerman said he leaned over to open It The slugger then attacked apparently dro dropped ped the pipe and fled from the store FOUND NEWSPAPER Sheets of a local newspaper of last Sundays Sunday's issue were found on the floor by the pipe and are believed be be- by the officers officer to have been wrapped around the bludgeon when It was seen by Zimmerman in the Ue theman's theman's mans man's pocket Detectives are at a loss to determine determine determine deter deter- mine the motive of If th tho attack Zimmerman Zimmerman Zimmerman Zim Zim- merman said the tho stranger s was apparently ap ap- pl about 26 years years' old and w wore re a blue suit and tray gray car cap |