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Show PLEADS FOR MERCY BUT LOSES LIFE Car Repairer Asks For Mercy of Thuj In Vain Helplessly facing the gun of a. mask od highwayman, Julio Ansclmo, 23 yoars of nge, employed as car repalrei by Uie Denver and Itlo Grande, pleaded plead-ed with tho bftadlt to leave bread money for his wlfo and babies. Ha was cursed in return and on repeat-lug repeat-lug his plea was shot In tho abdomen and will d',e. Dominic Ilarbo, 30 years ot ago who accompanied Ansclmo, W&s shot In tho arm by Uio highwayman, highway-man, who then turned and fled. With Anselmo resting on his shoulder should-er Barbo retreated his footsteps to the shoo shop ot Ray Delatis, which thoy had left but a few minutes before. be-fore. The police were called by it. Mauro proprietor of tho Elite saloon at 543 West Second South, but failed to find any trafce of tho fugitive bandit band-it Anselmo and Barbo wero removed to Uio emergency hospital at police headquarters and later taken to St. Mark'a hospital. Barbo escaped with a ilosh wound In Ills loft arm. He returned re-turned to Ihls homo at 5C6 West Broad way. Leaving tholr work in the Denver & Itlo Grande shops last night at i o'clock, Anselmo and Barbo went to the Elite saloon. They cashed their pay; checks ana played several games of irockot billiards. Ansolmos check amouned to $60. while Barbos was somewhat smaller. After tho games tho men started for their homos, walk Ing south on Fifth West. Barbo Tells Story Wo wero closo to tho corner of 5th West and Broadway when It dawned upon us that someone was stoalthll approaching at our hoels.isald Barbo last night. Turning, wo faced a masked mask-ed highwayman, who hold a gun In his right hand. Ho ordered us to throw up our hnnds and wo oboyed. Tho highwayman high-wayman searched Anselmo first. H causo of recent sickness In his family nnd oUier troubles A iscliiio had bean short of money, and when tho bandit took tho $C0 from his pocket ho ple.n: od with him for tho money, which, meant bread ana shelter for his 11 tl children. Tho hlglnnijman cursed him nr.u s.Hld ho would shoot If Ansulmo ity-slstcd ity-slstcd In his pleadings. When Ar.sul-mo Ar.sul-mo ngiilu bogged tho hlghwnyman to sparo his Ufo nnd at least part of tho monoy, tho bnudlt lowered the gun to a level with his hips and llrod. Ansel mo fell to the ground. 1 truncd to run and in tho samo instant I sow Uie run ajjaln flash nnd folt n sting In my arm. Highwayman Gets Start Tho highwayman then fled, declared Ilarbo, taking a course to tho west, Fifth West Is oxcoodlngly muddy nnd homo difficulty was oxpwlcnced In-tho In-tho robber In crossing tho street. Ho (lttorcd tho rallroqd yards nnd wa3 lost to sight. Georgo Cleveland and O. C. Car-stensen, Car-stensen, city detectives, discovered a -. jr blanket and a shaving outfit that had been concealed near tho scene of tho shooting and took them to the poIt:e stat'on last night. Thoro was noUi-Ing noUi-Ing to Identify It ns belonging to the highwayman . Tho bundle contained n bar of soap purchased In Stockton. Cal., and tho pollco nro In-llnod to liolkno that It bolongs to a momber of bands of unemployed making their way east. Numerous arrests wero mado last night by tho police, but In most Instances In-stances tho men wore released. Barbo Bar-bo was unnhlo to give a description of tho bandit boyond Uio fnct that ho wnw about I feot 10 inches In height, drossod In dark clothes and woco a cnp. Ho was masked with a bandana handkerchief. Ansolmo, who Is no relation to Glo launla Ansolmo, under sentence if death for tho murder ot Patrolman Thomas Griffiths, has three chljdrei. and a wlfo living at 509 South Fifth Wost. |