Show BATTLE WITH BANDITS cithens and robbers engage in beadi duel at blackfoot idaho aa the result of a battle between robbers and section men just south of blackfoot Black toot one Is dead two oth era are fatally wounded while a posse is in pursuit of another who will be lynched if captured the dead men are john sweet deputy sheriff of blackfoot Black toot and an unknown man one ot the robbers while W E fitzgerald section foreman Is fatally wounded at 6 clock sunday evening two men entered the section bouse occupied by japanese laborers on the oregon short line railway just south of town and attempted to hold up the men while they were parleying with the men the daughter of section fore man fitzgerald called for help and summoned deputy sheriff sweet who oa arriving was joined by her father and the two men went to the section house they were met at the door by one of the desperadoes who with a revolver in his hand beal boned sweet to come in sweet stepped up the stairs to the door when the fellow raised bis gun and alred so close was the gun to the sheriffs face that the powder black ened his forehead the bullet entered the temple just above the eyes inflict ing a fatal wound from which he died in about an hour without recovering consciousness As the body of the sheriff fell into the room the murderer sprang over it and with an oath started after fitz gerald who ran for the section house a short distance away which he reached locking the door after him after firing two shots through the door the desperado a giant in stature broke the door down and cornering fitzgerald shot him three times emptying his gun and then beat him into insensibility the two men then jumped through a window and ran to the railroad track they started up the track to ward the depot firing occasionally to keep the crowd back meanwhile several of the citizens secured guns and they responded to the alre of the outlaws A regular battle followed over a hundred shots being exchanged deputy sheriff kinney then came around the corner of a car with a sawed off shotgun and emptied a load of buckshot into one of the robbers throwing up his hands the mur derer sank slowly forward upon hia face the other continued firing as he ran and made good his escape onto the fort hall indian reservation A posse Is in pursuit of the robber who escaped and it captured he will be lynched |