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Show ENDS FIGHT WITH POLICE BY SUICIDE I . fie o rge Nelson After Six Hour Battle With Officers In Resident District Dis-trict Takes His Own Life San Francisco, Sept. 12. A thrilling thrill-ing six hour battlo between sixty police po-lice and George Nelson, a foreigner 23 years old, wanted for complicity In the robbery last month of a Los Angeles bank, ended at dawn today, when Nelson's bullet riddled body was found stretched on a cot In a rooming house. Ho had ended his Ufo by sending a. bullet through his head. Tho houso whero tho bandit successfully held tho pollco at bay slnco boforo midnight is In a populous popu-lous residential district and thousands of spectators, on cldcwalks and building build-ing tops, watched tho gun fight. Hugh McReth, a lodger who attempted at-tempted to cscapo from tho building when tho battlo between tho bandit and pollco began, was shot twlco thru tho head, probably fatally, by tho cross flro. Policeman Petor Hammond was shot through tho arms and legs by Nelson. Fire All Night Long All night long tho pollco directed an intermittent ilro into Nelson's room from an upper window of tho rcsldcnco of Uishon Edwin H. Hughes of tho Methodist Episcopal church, across tho street and from adjacent windows nnd housetops. A powerful searchlight was placed in tho window of another dwelling houso across tho streot directly facing tho bandit's room and by Us glare tho pollco po-llco centered their flro moro or less accurately. Shotguns, repeating rifles ri-fles and rovolvjrs wero used and hardly a squaro Inch of Nelson's room escaped tho raking flro. Shortly Short-ly before 4 o'clock Nelson flred n slnglo shot and tho effort of tho po- Illco to bring a further rcspouso was futile, although a scoro or moro of shots wero sont Into tho room. With tho coming of daybreak tho officers entored the building nnd then burst through Nelson's room. Nelson Found Dead Nolso,n had been dead moro than two hours. Threo automatic pistols and a quantity of ammunition lay on tho tnblo near tho body. Tho floor was littered with glass and splinters of wood and tho walls wero riddled with shot. There was a bad wound near tho elbow qf Nolson's right arm and in his efforts to staunch tho flow of blood ho had fashioned a. rude ban-dago ban-dago from a towel. Tho pollco bc-liovo bc-liovo that Nelson's Intense suffering, combined with tho knowledge that daylight would result In his capture caused him to send a bullet through his head. Four hundred dollars was found among Nelson's bolonglngs a part of tho loot, It was said from tho Los Angeles bank. -Tho pollco learned of Nelson's whereabouts thro.ugh tho arrest last night of William Jober n companion of tho bandit in tho Los Angeles robbery. rob-bery. Jober was shot in tho arm at tho tlmo of tho bank robbery and had Just left tho ofllco of a physician when ho was taken into custody. A complcto confession, tho pollco said, ' 1 I followed. 1 |