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Show THEY HAD THEfR NERVE. Four Footpads Attempt to Hold Up a Berkeley Policeman. Bcrkcloy, Cal. In a desperate bat tie with four footpads early Thursday . morning Policeman John J. Lcstrang shot and killed one of tho men, whos body now UeB unidentified In tho Berk ley morgue. Lestrange wob commanded com-manded by ono ot the highwaymen hi hold up his hands, but' the officer quickly drew his revolver and fired The bullet penetrated the man's Jug ular vein and hq dropped dead aftei running fifty ynrds.. Ho had threo companions, who made tholr escape A revolver was found by tho sldo ol the dead man, and on his porson wnl a Bofe-crncklng outfit, which led the officers to bellevo that tho quartet wero In West Berkeley for tho pur poso of blowing up tho bank there, |