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Show YOUNG BANDITS PLAY HAVOC Kill Policeman After Robbing Duluth Hotel Duluth, Dlnn., Jan. 6. It Is possible that William Mazzard and Algol John-eon, John-eon, the boy bandits who hold up the ' t night clerk at a hotel here, and later shot nnd killed Policeman Harry Chosmoro, who had thorn under arrest, ar-rest, have been captured elghteou miles north of hero nt a logging camp. A rural mall cnrrlor brought wort! tonight that he had given two boys , ' answering tho description of tho fit-, fit-, gitlvoH n 'ride and thnt they had told him thoy,woro going to the camp of Isaac Drown. This being tho only plnco In that section where they could , stop, officers wero sent thero. Mnzzard and Johnson, discharged ' boll boy nnd night porter .respectively, .respective-ly, of the Hotel McKny, early todny held up, robbed, shot nt tho night clork nndiescnpod with $50 belonging to tho 'hotel, ; They wpro arrested nnd placed on t street car nftor n chaBO through tho Interstate bridge district, nnd while i being taken back to tho city naked thnt they jbe allowed to go Insldo tho cnr. This request being granted, ono of tho youthful bandits pulled n re- ivolvcr that had escaped tho ntetntlon of Policomnn Harry Chosmoro, who had made tho arrest, opojied fire on I that official and killed him. Tho robbors then hold up tho pas-pengors pas-pengors nnd crow of the stroct cnr nnd nt 0:30 o'clock this morning os-enped os-enped over tho Northern Pnclflo bridge. 8tory of the Crtme. Tho two boys entered tho room early ear-ly this morning. Clarence Stubsted, tho night clork, nnd Chnrlos Flroovod, n porter, woro standing besldo tho desk. "Hold up your hands" shouted ono of tho boys, pointing n revolver nt : them, Tho clerk nnd the poster thought the boys were Joking. To show that they wore In earnest one of them fired a shot through the floor near tho desk and the clerk and the porter put up their handB. The youths then marched them into in-to another room nnd ordered them to stand against n large iron post, to which they lied their hands. The boys then returned to the desk and went through the cash register, taking about $50. The two hotel men were freed later. It was expected that the bandits would try to reach Superior and Chea-more Chea-more was on tho watch for them. He lound them Just befoie they reached 'tho interstate bridge and placed them I'nder arrest .As they were coining up Garfield avenue on a street cnr one of the boys complained of being cold . "Aid right; go In and sit down," said tho officer. On Superior street the offlcjr's nt-tentlon nt-tentlon was distracted by nn Intoxl-tnted Intoxl-tnted man on tho platform and whllo ho was looking at him, Mazznrd, it Is 'alleged, drew a revolver nnd began firing. Tho fifth shot killed Chosmoro The two desperadoes, one holding a lovolvor to tho conductor's breast, forced tho gntes of tho cnr open nnd escaped. |