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Show HUNT HOLD-UPS; FIND' fl VICTIM Well-Known Citizen Is Shot by Young Sleuths; Accident IsCIaimed. William Grimsdell of the Grocer Printing company, living at 733 East Fourth South street, was shot in the back and painfully though not dangerously danger-ously wounded early last night by two small boys, who were on the trail of hold-ups, who have been plying their vocation In Fourth South street recently. recent-ly. The, small boys are Robert Hilde-brand, Hilde-brand, 14, and Walter Forger, 13, both of whom were locked in Jail after making a confession last night. The boys said that they had read and heard a great deal about the robberies that had taken place recently and that they determined to kill a robber If one attacked them. The boys procured a 32-callber revolver and had loaded all the chambe.-s. While the boys wore examining ex-amining the weapon, the moonlight glinting along the barrel, Mr. Grimsdell and his wife stepped from their yard to the sidewalk to take a short stroll. Almost Immediately after Mr. Grimsdell Grims-dell stepped to the sidewalk, the revolver re-volver was discharged in the hands of me Doys ana Air. unmsueii ieu tne sting of the bullet In his shoulder. He was assisted to the house and the Police Po-lice department was notified and a physician was summoned. It was found that, by good fortune, the bullet had missed Mr. Grimsdell's spine and had burled Itself In the muscles of the back. The victim will be out In a few days. The boys made a confession to the detectives of the Police department. |