| Show BLOODLESS 3 SHOOTING affray ESPE esre bado EADo EXCHANGES SHOTS gg WITH OFFICERS 1 I IN N THE it hirx tig tiu WABD ward last night there came very near beings tragedy in the vicinity of the sixteenth ward school houfe house A A well known professional horse horbe thief named andrew pettit wab was in that vicinity between seven beven and eight elgh t os clock hib hla horse horre being tied up a t abort distance away he was ap preached by a 11 naan nann man unan supposed to be a deputy U S Mar marsdal marshal bhai who accosted him in a moment pettit drew a revolver pointed it at the other individual and backed toward hib bis horse the man who intended to arrest pettit was of course helpless under the circum circumstance the thief having the drop on him reaching hib bib horse the desperado leaped into the saddle and as he be wa wab riding off on the other man pulled hia hla pistol and several shots were exchanged but EO far as keowns known without effect the amm aff affair air occurred in front of a house and a young girl stood near where the acene was enacted and witnessed the whole of it IL the congregation assembled at evening service la in the adjacent school schoolhouse house heard the shots shota but did not know kno what was transpiring Pettit Petti tj jA hat a soft boft brown felta relt reit wa waa picked up from the street after afterwards warda ards and is now at the city hall there 13 a 96 bullet ballet holn hoit through the rim a little to the right of the back and close to the nead showing howing that the wearer gearen had a close cloa call cali we understand that the man who attempted petrita Pet tita arrest was a U S officer but we are axe not positive on tb that at mint wint 0 int as up to one today to day TO particulars had not been report tito elto marshal ireland the officers have bave been after afren the desperado for soine gom time however on account of some gome new horbe 0 aeration oper opet pe ration amona he la Is a desperate character and tbt the will he be un alse if they take many chances in attempting h hla hia Is capture uis wis reputation in bat that he wili will shoot without he hesitation when his liberty is at take aiice the h a above was written WO we ha haye here seen a gentleman who resides a the vicinity of the place where the shooting occurred hla hib state men man t corroborates the foregoing with MO toe exception that instead of one man inan approaching approach lne inc pettit there wera were three two of whom U 8 officers and the other was gideon gideo n rolph from whom pettit bad nad stolen some horses six or seven shots were dred drad and the people in the neighborhood were considerably sider ably excited one lady jady mrs stevenson who was sitting by the bedside bed side alde of hersick daughters daughter fainted on hearing bearing the sound of the pistol reports |
