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Show RAIDER KILLED. A1JD ANOTHER IS MORTALLY HURT ;FORT WORTH, Tex., March 23. Following a raid on a resort yesterday, yester-day, County Attorney Jeff D. McLean was shot and killed, and Hamil , P. Scott, a member of the raiding party, fatally wounded by William Thompson, proprietor of the place. Half an hour later 'Thompson was surrounded in a lumber camp and captured after a 'desperate 'des-perate fight in which Thompson' received re-ceived wounds that probably will eause his death within a few hours. -County Attorney McLean, heading a party of deputies, forced an entrance into the alleged gambling bouse, placed a number of men under arrest and loaded a van with tablea and other paraphernalia. Thompson then killed McLean .and fled. - Dodging behind a billboard Thompson ambushed Scott, shooting the deputy three times. Thompson stopped only long enough to discard his empty pistol for that car- J ried by the dying deputy and then re- i sewed his flight, lie was located in the lumber yard by Patrolmen Bell and Lloyd. Thompson, by this time thoroughly thor-oughly desperate, vigorously returned the fire of the officers. After being wounded, however, his - capture was easy. |