Show ROBBER SOT SUOT ON LiNCOLN AVENUE HAD ENTERED THE ROOM OF J JH JH H SMITH While in the Act of Attempting to Es Escape Escape cape Thug is Wounded By Welt Well DI Directed Shot Steven McCarthy 3 30 sears ears old was ag shot in iii the tue thigh hr I J H 11 Smith pro proprietor proprietor of time the Cottage Collage rooming house houa 2518 Lincoln avenue as he was mak makIng Ing ills his way front from the rooming hOUSE after to lo rob the proprIetor shortly after 1 1 this morning lie He Was as hurried to tile the emergency hos 1105 pital at aL the police station whore Dr DrW DrW W J 1 Drowning Browning city physicIan at al attended tended him The bullet which lodged In Ills his thigh has not boon beon located Tile The Is not considered danger clanger ous em and arni no bad results are an anticIpated unless blood poisoning sets Bels In Awakened by ills his wife who said she sho had heard a peculiar noise In the house Mr Ir Smith got up act and stopped Into tile the parlor adjoining their bed bedroom room just In tUne lime to see McCarthy stealthily walking through tile door doorway way Into tile main hall Smith called to the man llIan to halt bait and he did saying that he wished d to get geL a room McCarthy handed the proprietor some mone money fo for the room Mr Smith although suspicious of the nocturnal visitor left tile the man In tile the h hail lI and wont back to hIs bed bcd room to lo got get some rome change When rhen he went to look for Ills his money he dIscovered that his shoes and trousers had been boen taken from Crom the ilie chaIr upon which ho he hud had placed ed them before retiring Mr Smith hurried back to ho hall halland halland and this time ho found lIl McCarthy Carth about to leave the place with the shoes and trousers In his possession The man seemed much flInch disturbed when Mr Ir Smith returned and dropped the articles which he was attempting to steal Tile The men clinched each other and a scuffle followed While this was going on Mrs Smith had arisen and hall had gone to the tho tele telephone telephone phone and called for fOI assIstance While SIlO she was vaS talking to tile the police pollee at the tho station SIlO she happened to glance at the window and saw two men crawling over ool a fence on the north side of oC tile the rooming house bouse After a fierce scuffle McCarthy suc succeeded uc In away from Smith Rushing out of the Ule front door of the rooming house lIe he stopped on to a aseaL I seat seaL near tile the fence As he was about to vault over the fence the proprIetor oi of time the place who had hatt secured his hi re fired Ored The bullet struck Mc In the heft thigh Detective Wardlaw and Patrolman Patrol man Vance appeared on tile the scene just as tile the was fired anti and McCarthy WIS as placed under arrest without further None of tile the occupants of time Cot Col tago house hous hus hns reported any anything thing missing but William George who rooms In the Allen block next door reported to lo tile the police this morn mornIng Ing ng that his coat and trousers contain containing Ing a few dollars had been stolen last night Mr 11 George said the tho report of the revolver awakened him but buL he was too sleepy sleep to pay much attention to It and dId not mIss his clothes un nil until til lIe ho arose to dress this morning He thInks or an all accomplice robbed his room shortly before tile the theatt att attempt wa made to lo rob the Cottage rooming house |