Show BURGLAR fIRES ON POLICE 15 HIMSELF SHOT Marauder at Keyser Home Escapes After After Af ter Exciting Battle i j Answering doorbell and fInding find find- Ing ng himself confronted by a police officer officer a burglar in the George D D. I eyser home Second avenue a ai 81 I 3 o'clock Monday morning quickly slammed the door stepped to a French tench window and opened fire Ire or orthe orthe orthe the unwelcome caller This is the narrow escape from death Detective e C. C W. W had when he and Detective e C. C WRider XV W Rider responded to a neighbor call to the police that burglars w wert r rn re reIn In n the Keyser home A few moments later at the real ream of the house he was wounded by shots which flew thick and fast when he engaged in a gUt gur battle with both detectives while ef et effecting his escape Seeing lights in the Keyser home In n the absence of the family a neighbor called the police and Ros Ros' and and Rider went to Arriving at the home De Detective Detective Rider took a position at tb the rear of the house while Dete Detective Uve went to the front d l land and rang the bell After a del delay followed by the gleam from a flash flashlight light Inside the house the fron ran rand d door r was thrown open by a man 01 ol middle stature apparently wearing a bathrobe Detective Inquired o Q the man whether he ho was Mr Key I ser to which the latter Iatter replied Just a moment please and theE thel slammed the door In face A h second or two later shots were fired through Frencl Frent Fren t windows at the side bide of the door lal 1 1 the first through his coat and the second striking the ceiling of the porch SHOTS RETURNED I Detective then rail rae around around the side of or the house an and anC was met by Detective Rider woe was hurrying to the front to investigate Investigate the shooting While still stillIe in Ie the the- the driveway driveway the detective e saws saw's I man run from the rear of the hou houi i Both opened opened- fire and started c r pursuit the burglar returning shot sho f dr r shot The latter became entangled en tangled in weeds in the rear reat of th the lot lot but effected hIs getaway in Ine nie dark A neighbor who was on the scene scent was requested by Detective Rosen Rosen- krantz to call for more snore help front from the police station while the continued the search for lor the burg burs lar That the burglar was b by bythe the he shots fired lre b by the e. e detective i 1 is almost certain in ot a 11 re report report re- re port made to the police by members members members mem mem- bers of a family living on Third avenue through tho the block from the scene of th the shooting SEEN TO FALL According to the stOry they told the police they saw a man coming up an alley from the rear ot of the Keyser Keser home toward their house shortly after the shooting They saw him fall in the alley and heard him groan gloan They say they also ob observed observed ob ob- served him get to his feet and cro croSs Third avenue and enter an alleyway alleyway alleyway alley alley- way holding his side with bl his hands as ho he walked An Investigation of or the Keyser home revealed that the burglar had entered the house by an unlocked side window On a cabinet near tho the French windows through which the burglar fired at Detective Ros Ros- were found two 45 automatic auto matic shells while five other empty empt shells of the same make were found at the r rear ar of the house The po police 10 lice officers evidently arrived on In InI the scene before the burglar had I time to rifle the house for things thing's were practically undisturbed |