Show HOLD UP AND FIRE S S FRE FREIN IN N GROCERY STORE STONE j Third North Establishment S Scene of Wild Excitement Excitement Excite Excite- S S ment Last Night 0 ARRINGTON SLUGGED D tr F Found Burglars Burning of of S JJ S Building Follows Discovery Dis Dis- Di covery covery S i 4 Harold Arrington who for the t last ast four years has made it his custom to t V 1 sleep in the grocery grocer store of of- Westwood Westwood Westwood West- West wood and S Sons ns at West Third S North street street was slugged as a he entered en en tere ered 1 the the- store last lat night about abut mid raid S night Within a few seconds later tater the f building was on fire fre presumably started by and was soon son reduced educed to ashes ashes The rho loss was estimated esti esti- est est- S. S mated at at 1000 There Thero was no Insurance Insurance Insurance i ance on the building Joseph Westwood who lives hives next Seer floor to the store was aroused in his sleep by the flames He ran to the store and in his effort elfort to got get Into the S S front door ho broke a n pane of glass glassand gla S and md sustained a badly lacerated arm ar S After Ater an entrance was gained to the store It was as discovered ls that Arrington I was waa not in The blaze of or course at attracted at- at a crowd a and d as ns the flames fames loomed up the almost unconscious form at f Arrington was found In the tho yard ard In tn f the roar of or the store Ho He was carried t into the Westwood od residence and Dr V. w. F. F Beer Deer was called caned He found Arrington Ar Ar- Ar- Ar I rington had haf suC suffered a concession of ot the lie brain brin and that the wound which was In the nature nature of a a. lump on tho the forehead had hal been Inflicted by a blunt S Instrument presumably a sand land bag S Unk d Men Mea la its Store tor Arrington in his rational moments said maid that two masked men were In the tho store when ho lie entered after returning 0 from a call cal upon a 1 may lady ai friend OneS One of oC S them struck struck- him a blow over the 1 head head that staggered him and as aslie he fell feU I he AC sail said 1011 he lie heard a n. shot There were ti S some In the neighborhood that declared declared I three shots hots were wera tired fired and that two S S. S men were re seen running away Sergeant Hempel and Officers Curran Curran Cur- Cur I ran and Eli El Johnson mado made the Investigation In Investigation In- In In behalf belal of at the tho police de tie tie- on onas was as unable to de describe tie tie- scribe his He Ho did not know S whether they wore vero white or color colored d men mon Airing ton lon said ho crawled from tho time stor but a- a f aho ho to could pot not rem cm- cm b ber r what happened after aCter h he was was S slugged the tho theory obtained ed that that the them j. j m men rr him hm from the store to pro pro- rv nl him burned Up nr-bu nr d It I also tw at family th l two two times time before beCar within tho last six Ix month months atI nt attempts at- at I tempts have havo been made mad to hold up tsp the store atoro and that lint ArrIngton had been fIred fred at Tho The toro store was lighted by electricity elec and a Ire fre of or some kind would have o to hare hivo been applied d to set It Jt Iton iton I vj on tire lIre L. L U nl Jb GIrL After the fire fre had burned out and and L tIme the wounds of or Arrington ArIngton and Joseph l Westwood had been dressed It was dis- dis 7 covered that Dick who l alBa ileo was accustomed to sleep sheep In the tore was lS not home home It I alarmed the tho t amily It I was known that he had also j tone rono to call on a girl but all ni declared hc ic was staying out later lator than usual 5 1 directed Assistant Fire Chief Crosby L search of or the charred building but no 10 trace of or eds was found he The police polee however howe on 01 their way back backo I S to o 0 the tho station found him still sti talking S S to o 0 his girl S Referring to the previous attempt to hold old up time the store it was stated that tha a ri aall tal all a short man tried to do dO i m S S work fork ork As tho time men who did last nights night's deed could not be described there thele w was wa c could nothing tangible by which the above o do men could bo be connected with tho l lift present case cas S |