Show ILD STREET SHOOTING CREATES PANIC GAMBLER FIRES 5 SHOTS H I 8 BUT I HI HIS AIM AIMI I DAD Bo Is Dangerous Only to Innocent I Pedestrians Pedestrians Tough Citizen Is Licked by Intended Prey SCORES of persons dodged for their lives and flattened I themselves on the t sidewalks on onI the Kenyon Kenon hotel corner when I a frenzied man commenced a 1 fusillade ot of revolver shots at 6 o'clock this m Mike lIke Ray flay 31 years ot of otage age was the assailant and J. J W. W Johnson proprietor ot of the Shelton sort soft drink parlor was the intended victim according to the police pollee Johnson leaped aside at each shot escaped unscathed and then closed I with his antagonise in a life liCe and death struggle on the pavement Before etore the police pollee arrived Johnson is said to have whipped Ray unmercifully and to have hae compelled hIm to beg for Cor forgiveness Ra Ray Is now In the city jail and a complaint charging him with assault with Intent to commit murder has been issued against him According to the tho police Ray flay is IL a professional gambler lie He had been playing cards with Johnson in a a. deserted rooming house which the police had closed Johnson stated that after aCter losing steadily he had been informed that Hay Itay was a a. professional proCessional gambler and that he did not stand standa a chance ot of winning JOHNSON SLAPS RAY Friday night he engaged In another poker game with na flay and asserts that he caught him cheating Johnson Johnson John John- son told the police that he proceeded to accuse Ray ot of the fraud and then slapped his face repeatedly Later In Inthe inthe the evening Johnson says ho he was Informed by a friend that Ray was searching for Cor him with Intent to do him bOdily harm and that he had sworn to get him Johnson possessed a revolver butIn but In order to avoid a temptation to use lit It he is said to have placed It In It a drawer In his room before beCore going outto out outto to breakfast At the Kenyon corner he came face to face Cace with Ray According to thE police Ray opened fire without II a word The bullets flew wide and earl early morning arrivals inthe in inthe the downtown district dodged Into doorways s 's and fled for their lives FIVE SHOTS FIRED Ray fired five fhe shots In c rick Jick suc- suc cession Johnson said that he heard the trigger snap on the empty cartridges cartridges car car- and knew that Rays Ray's gun was wall empty lie He dashed forward and j clutched his assailant by the throat Both oth men fell Cell to the ground fighting desperately and rolled Into the street I Women screamed and the attention ot of E. E E E. Brown was attracted to the scene Brown rown threw himself into the melee and succeeded In sep separating Ung the I two men Ray was arrested and taken to the city jail Two windows halt half a block away from the scene I of the fight were shattered by the bullets from Rays Ray's gun I |