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Show - uvjliil . J C . 'EiVE.ICl'PiCIOLUEL . ..Advance -Toward Each Otter Firing, Then Club and Guns and Fight. . Gardner discovered Franklin at work n a back window. The shooting; bean at once. The Pittsburg police say they have notlcefl Franklin about for some urn, and the fact that he refuses to give-any address ad-dress in New York lends weight to their theory that he is not a New York' man, but a Western crook, whom they have In mind. PITTSBURG. Pa., Dec. t Policeman Herbert Gardner of the South Side district dis-trict caught a man trying to open a back" window In an alley near Seventeenth street, and falling to get any .reply, fired on the stranger as he started to run. bringing him down In the street. The man. who proved to bo John Franklin, giving his residencp as New York, stumbled stum-bled to his feet and returned the policeman's police-man's fire They advanced toward each other, firing as they came, until their guns were empty, then, while each was bleeding with two bullet wounds, they clinched, using the butt ends of their smoking weapons as billies and pounded each other over the head until they fell fainting in the street. Both-men are at the South Side hospital and each seriously wounded. Franklin has , a bullet hole through his left side rnd one through his right limb. His head Is battered until almost unrecognisable, while Gardner also suffered severely from the clubbing and has two pistol wounds, painful, but not dangerous. It was an hour after break of day when |