Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-07-03 | Page 1 | Cripple Turns deadly Aim on Armed Bandits

CRIPPLE TURNS DEADLY AIM UN ON UNI I F fl BANDITS il Being Shot At it Vexes I iL Rail Veteran ep liOT OT MAD MAD ONCE ONOE iGi abbed Thugs Thug's Gun Thrashed r-Thrashed I Thrashed Him r I CITY MO July 3 3 P Ircy ercy B. B Baker 64 4 former l l l conductor and veteran of two trin today shot and killed one ono bandit and seriously wounded a an- an l- l lher when they attempted to h. h hold ld him up here today Baker aker who Is crippled as the r re result re- re suIt sult of a railroad accident was knocked to the pavement by cne cna ot nt trie the bandits when he was slow In Jn u aisIng his hands As As' he r el lI he dew his revolver and opened l fire from rom a sitting posture Both bandits ban ban- ant an- an t started shoo shooting ng Rosolino Bonura 24 one of the bandits fell feU to the sidewalk mor- mor wounded As the ot other 1 l' l rob- rob br tl fled d Baker emptied his gun at He staggered stagger and fell app ap- ap jp p badly wounded but m man man- n- n to crawl to an automobile find arid ive di-ive awa away BULLETS VERY ANNOYING TH Then n Baker called police 1 Then f It It wasn't much of an he ha casually It vexes me t to have robbers shoot at me Why bad back ln J 1889 when I was running a u. train on the Great Northern one of or three thre robbers emptied his gun at me mc when henl h n U Jiey ey held up my train near Arl- Arl more more N. N D. D t tI I Just S got t so c darned arned mad that th I 1 It t tok k the thing awa away from him and md andave gave ave him a good thrashing f j In In that holdup the other two bandit ban dit fled but the one ono Da Baker er thrashed and captured got fifteen years cars DODGES EM AGAIN l gain Again In 1893 near ar Ada ilm Baker maker shot it out with three robb rob rob- b rs who attacked his train Tie lie escaped injury but had several bull bul- bul J l holes through h his clothing The robbers escaped s sc aped ped i he veteran railroad man lo lost t Lt forefinger of i hand han and one leg In a train wreck He the tile middle finger of his gun hand hani handas hania 1 as a trigger finger Inger