| Show A mysterious AFFAIR FAIR MK SEARS SHOT suot AT THREE TIMES S W sears esq assistant superintendent in of the 2 C M I 1 while on his way home about 10 on tuesday evening discovered that he was being followed by a irian man whom he be had noticed crouching near a building just west of the herald office mr sears proceeded west until nearly opposite his residence when he turned to cross the road and noticed the individual was still dogging him A second afterwards a shot was ws tired and the man moan beat a hasty retreat mr sears heard the bullet whiz by hini him and in another moment another bullet p passed over his head this time however ver mr sears scars saw the flah flash and noticed the firing tiring came from the old crismon lot and after a third shot was fired he be saw a map moan ascend the steps of the old house ouse tap at tho tro deor and ond was admitted by a woman mr sears to together ather with policemen whom he bo had signalled signal led went to the house honse which tha man had bad entered and which is kept by mrs evans as a lod iod lodging ilsc house and questioned the woman who stated se had heard the firing and thought it came from the tile yard and also said it might have come from the corral at the back of the house she said in an answer to an officers que questin quest stil n that her son and son in law were the only men in the house and that they had not been outside of the house for tor over an hour the officers luben lehen left the house without further investigation mr sears told a NEWS reporter this mornin morning he is positive the inan ronn was in the lion house S e I 1 mr sears theory is that thatis it was a put ut up job for the man who followed him rim up from rom near the herald office to follow the first man who should come along and when near the man who was concealed they should call on the passer to halt and then go through his pockets as was done with idith a mr clark a short time tago tag inear olnear the same place he thinks the first shot was an accident and that the villain fired the second and tand third in view of hitting him and thus preventing any evidence belm being given iven no Tests arrests ii have as yet been made but the police have their eyes on several e ral rai hard lookin looking characters |
