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Show MERCHANT TIRES OF BEING ROBBED. KILLS HOLDUP MAN New York Shopkeeper Kills Fourth Robber Who Attempts At-tempts to Loot Till. New York. Three times thieves had browbeaten and robbed Louis Bernet, sixty-three, owner of a cigar store at No. 1:20 Willis avenue, the Bronx. That was enough. Recently he bought a second-hand revolver. He cleaned It and oiled it. Then at grave danger to himself, he snatched it from a desk and with It killed one of two armed thugs who had Invaded his little shop. Bernet's store is under the Willis avenue bridge In a spot dark and lonely lone-ly at night. At nine o'clock Bernet was chatting with Walter Itowe, sev enteen, of No. 423 East 13Sth street, a customer. A moment later the two holdup men walked up, each with pistol pis-tol drawn. One thrust his weapon against Rowe's breast and stood guard over him to prevent any alarm. The other, menacing Bernet with his pistol, forced the proprietor to walk toward the rear of the store. Turns on Bandit. This was a fatal mistake. Out front Bernet, although a large man, was impotent. In the rear was an office and desk and in Kie desk was the revolver he had bought for just such an occasion. "Come on, turn over what you've got!" the thief ordered. Bernet stepped toward the desk and reached into a pigeonhole as if to pull out money. The robber's vigilance re- ft v(M4 |