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Show I TWO OFFICERS ARE SHOT BY A NEGRO Burglar in a Grocery Store, Caught in the Act of Robbery, Opens) Fire, Wounding Patrolmen J. J. Murphy and John Hutchens Shots Are Exchanged but Thug Escapes Hutchens Slightly Wounded, but Murphy Has a Bullet in the Jaw and Is at thei Dee Hospital. , Patrolman J J. Murphv and John "Hutchens were wounded al 1 10 Rclock this morning at the corner of rt-fferson avenue and Twenty-fourth lireet by a negro, who was rifling th' till of the grocery conducted 1.-, Tom Karadomas f Patrolman Murphy received a bu I - let wound in Me- lace. The bullet t, tercd the lower hp slightly to the lefl of the middle and plowed along the. I left jaw bone, lodclng in the flesh at jf the angle of the jaw. The officer's i fctr.e was rut In several places by par- tides of flying glass, but none of his II wounds are serious M The bullet that struck Patrolman ' Hutchens jvenetrated his overcoat and Hi . underrloi hing and infli ted only a Jp5Ti'glIt flesh wound on his left hip. He H Was so slightly ii.juri d il.at h- war- shle to on'inij. oi, uutv !.....-; BMafetive part in the search for the bur-flxlar bur-flxlar Negro Obtains $75. The negro has not been captured. I Mt with the description given by Pa-KFtrolman Pa-KFtrolman Murphy the police hop1, to el Hnct his rapture before morning He F Secured J7S from the register and tin HBox hidden behind the i I HffV- G- A. Rassweiler. who resides llit "569 Twenty-fourth, sent in (he V alarm to the police, notifying the K 7fr1rt-desk sergeant that a man had Hi Just broken the window of the gro-FU gro-FU eery ston opposite li i place and was FM about to enter the liuildin-j Th- min- fster had been awakened b) his wife rJLwho heard the crash of glas6 when Hfthc negro broke the east window of . ma th store. He looked out of the win-H win-H dow and saw the man at work pft k HI lng pieees of glass "Vlt Of the wit, do preparatory to entering and he ailed the police station at once. II Sergeant Johnson was on duty at the time and he flashed the red signal light and almost ' directly Patrolman B Murphy rang up the station from the 1 Kalstaff. He was directed to the place 1 by the desk sergeant and left at once Rj for the scene. Within a few seconds i after Patrolman Hutchins called up the station and followed Murphy to Tithe store Sergeant Mohlman was at 1 ji hrtepot and, as soon as he hi u HUCat was going on. he secured a taxi-Scab taxi-Scab and arrived shorily after the pa ffj trolmcn if. When Murphv arrived at the store T he flashed his searchlighl Into I . l dark room and was immediately shot ji At h the negro, who was landing 1 back of the counter, the hulict Btrlk- lng him in the fare Patrolman Huicu-ens Huicu-ens arrived shortly after the first shot was fired and he fired into the dark store and Murphy although wounded, shot twice Hutchens did not know-he know-he was shot until the excitement quieted quiet-ed down Escapes Through Rear. After firing several times the ne gro ran through the rear of the store and escaped over the fence. The pro prietor, who was asleep in the rear room, states that he was awakened just as the burglar was getting over the board fence in the rear Patrolman Murphv not knowing how seriously he was wounded, as the blood was flowing freely and he was suffering great pain, began to walk up the street to the residence where Dr. Joyce formerh resided, but he was told that the doctor was not living there and he then started for the residence of Dr V E Whalen on Jefferson avenue, near the scene of the shooting After the doctor had given him attention, the officer was Conveyed to the Dee hospital, where he was made comfortable. chief of POllce W. 1 Norton was called on the phone shottly after the shooting took place and he hurried rironi his residence, at Jefferson aven in and Thirty-first street, to the scene arriving shortly after the occurrence. Mr-r securing what information he could, he and other officers began a search through the negro districts that lasted until this morning. Burglar Is Known. According to the chief, the idenhiv nf the man is positively known and he Is confident that the fellow will he r aught. The rhlef v isited Murphv at the hospital this morning and the patrolman gave a description that en abled Mr Norton to recall the fellow. Karademas. the Greek proprietor ot the grocery store, stated to the Standard Stand-ard this morning that on two occasions occa-sions a negro had called at the store and while making small purchases, had scrutinized the place The description de-scription givpn by the Creek tallies with that given by Murphv to the chief The proprietor of the grocerv store believes thai the negro stood on the Opposite side of the Street when he I losed his store last night and watch ed him hide the money There was $10 in the cash register and the i:n box containing the other money was hidden near the register There are two rear rooms in the building besides the store room, and it was the room next to the bed room of the proprietor through which the thief escaped The door leading in the back was locked, but the kej re mained in the door To set out ihe negro was obliged to stop and turn the key in the lock. What Minister Saw. "When 1 went to the window, after i my wife had called me, I saw the man picking out the glass from the I hole he had broken in the window." said Rev Rassweiler. whose residence Is almost directly across the street from the store The fellow would pick out a piece of glass and then run .around the corner, for the purpose, 1 j believe, of learning whether the pro prietor had been awakened by the noise He made three of these trips I before he climbed through the jagged i edge "I had telephoned to the police sta-j sta-j tion. but when the burglar stepped Into the store, f called up again and was Informed that two patrolmen were on their way When I hung up the receiver and looked out the door I saw the -first officer almost at the store and the other man coming a block away " The minister declares that one shot wag fired and then there was a fusillade. fusil-lade. With the exception of a piece of I glass deeply lodged In the side of the 1 nose, all the splinters have been re ! moved from the face of Patrolman Murphy, but Dr. Whalen will not re- move the bullet until tomorrow The policeman, after being attended, rest ed well and was In good spirits toil to-il a V This Is the second experience with desperate men that has befallen Mir, phy. He was with Deputy Shcriti Seymour Clark at the Ume Clark V a shot and killed by a boxcar thlel Dl Uintah At that time one of the bul i lets from the murderer's gun struck Murphy on the hand Inflicting a flesh wound on one finger, striking a heavy sold ring on another linger and tbam glancing off Not Alonzo Branford. Chiff of Police Norton stated thin morning that Patrolman Murphy did not say that the negro who shot him resembled the porter at the Clipper barber shept Ah a result of that statement, Alonzo Branford the porter, por-ter, appeared at the police station this morning and gave a good account ot his actions He said he had come to town this morning and had been fold that, ho was wanted by the police and he came at once to the station to await the return of the chief. He was not held Officers Given a Clew. William Mathas colored, now in the county jail, held for burglary, may be the means of aiding those in search of the assailant of the officers He stated to Sheriff E E Harrison this morning that he had strong suspl cions that certain colored men com mitted the burglary and shooting on Twenty fourth street last night and the officers today are following the clew, which may lead to an arrest before be-fore the dav is over Mathas has told of two negroes of the city whom he thinks would turn Just such a triV as they are desperate men |