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Show OFFICER DYING, PURSUES ROBBER Mortally Wounded by Man He Was Trying to Apprehend, Appre-hend, Policeman Sends 16 Shots After Him. ' OAKLAND, CaL, Oct. 2. Mortally -wounded by a robber whom he had attempted at-tempted to apprehend, Policeman Wilfred Wil-fred L Hodgkins of this city pursued his assailant a distance of four blocks, with a bullet over his heart, firing and reloading bis revolver nntil he had sent sixteen shots after the fugitive. He desisted from the pursuit only when compelled by the intervention of 'citizens who joined in the pursuit ana who had discovered his condition. Hodgkins, who is a brother of the former Chief of Police of this city, encountered en-countered a man whom he had reason to believe was responsible for several recent re-cent robberies wherein the perpetrator has in each case escaped upon a bicycle. bi-cycle. The suspect shot the policeman , as he was advancing. The Chief of Police with the entire force, and assisted by a posse of armed citizens, is scouring the city in search of Hodgkins assailant. |