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Show IlilWIS: LINGERING ATHOSPITAL Bank Robber Suicide Shows .' Wonderful Tenacity of Life. CRAZED CONDITION , OF HIND ASSERTED 1 f Young Man Had Provided Horse, bat Crowd Was ; Too Fast The pulse of OUrar W. Harray, who robbed tba U Commercial and Bur-- Bur-- ' tni bank of f 1000 yesterday afternoon and then shot himself through .tha Brain, waa pounding at tha rata of ISO beata a, BUoute. At ttl&uk'a hospital at 2 o'clock this afternoon, while his temperature waa 104 degrees. . At 10 o'clock thla morning Hanrey's temperature waa 10S degrees, within . ona degree of tha maximum that can be roeorded by tha human system, while hia pulse waa 150 beata to tha I minute. The man's vitality is remarkable, and. the hospital attendants say that while be. may die any moment, he may linger for many hours. There ia, however, ao possibility of recovery. Patrolmaa Armstrong, in citizen's eluthrs, is on guard at the hospital today, to-day, having relieved the policemen who kent vigil through the night. A man will be detailed a gnard until Harvey dies. The bullet which 'Harvey fired into . his brain to avoid capture entered the skull at a point just bark, of the right ear and plowed through the brain, emerging from the back of the skull . anil tearing a ragged hole in his skull. Mind Probably Unbaianced. The daring ef Harvey's deed and the fsnatie manner ia which he executed it, has convinced the police and others . who are familisr with Harvey life last bis mind had become unbalanced by reaeoa of hia recent dissipation, bts 1 p mllmg habits and the supposed cultivation culti-vation of tha drug hahit. Intimate friends say that Harvey had 'begun recently re-cently to use drugs, and this statement i corroborated bv bis mother-in-law, . Mrs. La u rea n Brown. Mra. Brown said Harvey had been absent from hem for a week, and that things bad come to inch a pms that Mrs, Harvey was con tcmplatui martiuK divorce proceeding. proceed-ing. Harvey snd his wife had been merrled five years la at June, snd there era no ehildiwn. Harvey's mother died when he whs a young boy, and his fat iter la mining; min-ing; near Wlnnemucca, Nev. Aftej HarveV had flooded the city with worthies checks a month or two ago he 1ft the city, friienda stayed pnv'erdings sssinst him, and he returned a short time SKO, aayina that he had completed a suc-cfiil suc-cfiil land deal In loaho. He had about iMmi when he came ha'k. and took up all' the hart paper he hud leaned. Harvsy was televwd bv hia friends to be trying to do j Hie rlrht thing attd retrieve ths faults of the past. Haa Rwlt saddle Horse. When Harvey planned hi crime he had provided a posalhi means of aat-aoe. tr had rtddn lo ilie bank on a horse vhl-h he houaht a short time aso. a well . htillt. rest aautlle animal. lie hitrhed thia horse in front of the bank, and had I banned to mount the nntmal and thus make his escape- Pressed clueely an h wss hv th crowd Snd the police, he was tinahir lo caxry out his plan, and forfeited for-feited his own life aa the renttlt. The bank whlrh Harvey robbed Is only a fw fct from the pawnahop whj h waa rohbed by Morria and Murray. Morris waft captured within s few rods of the point her. Harvev killed himnelf. The pert played by Pol it Hergoant t'harlee Pitts snt Patrolman Mike Fits-, gerAlrt in the pursuit of Harvey and the I'rmnptnesa of these offlrsrs, who at the iik of (heir Uvea fo.i'ed Harvey Into 111 alley, haa been comments! upon en: ad sides. While it wss In strict I'ne , wl t h t heir duty, the men roe to 1 1 iS emcrgencv In a manner that can no; fall to win approbation. Aa Htervev dHPhed into the alley, fl-hiwed fl-hiwed bv Patrolman F1i fniM, id sn Instant later by Hergeani Pllti. Harvev drew hia weapon. Roth of th officer irer inir own revolvera and vovwirtl 1 htm. both shouted: "rop that gun or we'll about.' Harvey hesitated ar Inatant. It's c. pi n as pointed in the air. Th polu-4 -titan threw down their guns wlih A view to winging'' him. but Harvey fore-staled fore-staled their action and crumpled to the amvsanaut with a bullet hi hia brain. Will Get No Keward. Patrolman Flisrerem ran to him and took t'te gun from hia ncrveleaa flnger. aid thn look the two rolls f currenvv, amounting to flnfl, and stuffed them In his on poket. turning the movr later tu the polios detrimeni. woe re th"V wilt he held as evidence until t..rvev dtea or la taken to trial, when they will ! returned re-turned to th hank. Thia hank la ih pmteeted by the American Hankers Protect I v Bw.oHit'f.n, which off re a standing reward of t10 for the arrest or rapture of any sneak thief, robber or hank burglar who has committed any of thse Crimea upon any bank a member of that organisation. It was thought at first that Patrolman fltaarerald. who recovered, the. monev, would be entitled to such a reward, but no standing reward Is offered by th bank In question, and. no reward as in b Paid , |
