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Show ii A oW Am, Surrounded But Says He Will Not be w Taken Alive m i ij Vallojo, Cal., Juno 1G. After a se- J lies of running battles with ofllcers of three counties today, Frank Mel-R Mel-R ville, believed to be the boy bandit , who has held up a dozen saloons In I HI California towns recently, is surround-JB surround-JB ed In a tulo swamp on Carqumcz S; straits. It Is -thought -Melvllies am- V munition Is almost exhausted, and It fft i is believed bis capture is certain. 5J S Melville was traced to Vallejo last J night through .vpet snake he was .car-i .car-i ji rying Officers followed him from the t!J j, town and exchanged a volley of shots $? i with the lad, but he eluded them. 9 : Early today he was seen near Glen !Sj Cove and refused a command to sur-9 sur-9 render by a fusiladc from his pistol, I1 : afterward diving into a flold of grain. gP Ho was finally forced to take refugo B9 hi the tulo swamp. fin Melville repeatedly shouted to his J5 k pursuers that ho would never bo W i taken alive. |