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Show HAS NARROW ESCAPE IN STRUGGLE WITH THUG A highwayman and a citizen fought face to face yesterday morning and the cltlsen succeeded In getting away from the footpad. C. A. Horsiey, a clerk at the Sixteenth ward store, was held up In Peach street. When he was ordered to hold up his hands, he grasped the gun and attempted to wrench it away from the footpad. In the struggle a shot was discharged, piercing Horsley's coat. He then started start-ed to run to the store and there telephoned tele-phoned the police. Horsiey lives at 602 West North Temple street, and was on his way home at the time. |