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Show LAP I. Ill m Army Officer Shot by H a Watchman of B a Market H San Francisco, April 12. As the re- Hj suit of a fight with John J. Hayes, an Hjl aged night watchman, at an early H hour today, Capt. Frank A. Cook, sub- j sistencc ofllce of the commissary dc- 1 "partment of the regular army, lies Hj dangerously wounded In the central H emergency hospital. Hh Cook, accompanied by his two sons Hj and two daughters, arrived here yes- Hf! tcrday from Manila on the transport l Sheridan. With his family he visited H ' relatives last night. Leaving them at H, their hotel, he went ,o another hotel, H where, according to his storj', he had H n, few drinks. At 1 o'clock this morn- H .Ing he broke in the door of a largo H .market on Market street nnd was met H by John J Hayes, the night watch- B Hayes claimed that he struck Cook B on the head with his club when the H latter refused to leac the place. Ac- B cording to Hayes, Cook seized the H club and returned the blow Hayes H then fired two shots at the officer, H one penetrating bis left lung and bare- H lv missing the heart, the other going H H At this juncture a number of police- H men entered the place and separated H1 the men- Cook was taken to the H1 Central emergency hospital, "where H Dr. G M. Terrlll, 'probed for the bul-B bul-B let. While Tcrrlll was operating, he B) recognixed Cook as a brother officer B who served with him in the campaign B against the Apache chief Geronimo in B Arizona, in 1SS5. At that time Cook B was lieutenant of the Fourth cavalry Bl nnd Tcrrill was a post surgeon B( When Captain Cook regained con- B sclousness he declared that when he B left the hotel, his mind was a blank B and he inquired eagerly for the dc- H tails of the fight wheh had led to his H woundB. When the story was told to H brn, he confessed keen regret, declar- Hj ing that he had unwittingly brought K great disgrace on his family. H Cook probably will recover from H the wound. Hf oo ------- Li |