Show e THOUGHT MURDER t HAD BEEN DONE l Policemen Find a Hat After Hearing Two Shots Fired if u MYSTERY APPEARS DEEP it Sleuth Finally M R plains J. J That ii 1 lie Fht In iii II Air ir r to o ok k Sll Scare rc Thief f. f I r I I Policeman William Chambers creat- creat l cd el n nil sorts of excitement about 11 o'clock last nl night ht 1 by 13 shooting at a aJ J supposed thief thle who ha had escaped from fromI J I him liim The shooting occurred In Pig S 'S alley which Ilch Is the name given Ien by bythe bytho S the tho police to the tho alley running west vest from State Slate street to Commercial CommercialS S street between First South and Com Com- mercal avenue and was In the rear of ot the Iho i Portland coffee coree house Rumors of Sf murder suicide e eHl and Hl up hold soon spread and anti by hy the tue time Patrolmen S Carlman Cariman nn and Beckstead were tere on the theS S ground Investigating a crowd crowl of oC ful fully c one on hundred curious spectators ha had gathered mostly mity youths youths The Tho man nau Inal ho who escaped and at whom S the shot hot was fre Sired fired is a young fellow fellowS S l who Is supposed to have taken tal en a aS S S watch fr from ni one of oC the colored women living liing in Commercial street street He le l Is VI said to have havo sold the watch vatch to a Chinaman The rhe name of the fellow SS Is not i known to the Hie police and he was WS being taken to tho the police sta- sta 1 n to lo be he sweated when he made his eSCle escape To slop stop him Cham Chambers bels bel's 5 S fired fred two shots In the air all The he man manIn I i- i In escaping lost his hat which was picked up In the tho rear of tho the Lincoln S house houge S S Pails Falls Puls to Overtake O 11 Him Chambers at once pursued his man u hut but failed to overtake o nim as he w ran mn J up a of stairs In the rear of I tho the American Amerian house an and then ran out through the front on Commercial lal 5 street and made good his get gel S The Time hat hal which was as the only thing found by Patrolman Carlson created S no end nl of mystery until the matter was explained to lo Patrolman BeckS Beckstead Beck Beck- S stead by Policeman Chambers Chambers |