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Show MASKED MAN KILLS ONE Lone Robber in Attempting At-tempting to Holdup C o 1 o r a d o Resort Shoots Down Night Watchman and Makes His Escape Colorado Springs. Coin , July 12 A. masked man attempted to hold up the night clerk at the Cliff House, a fashionable summer hotel at Maui-tou, Maui-tou, twelve miles west of here, early lodny. shot unci kilk-d Night Watch-man Watch-man C Whitehead, and escaped to the hills. A posse was sent In pursuit but up to 9 o'clock this morning had found no trace of the m;in Several suspects were taken Into custody n the early morning hours, but none have been Identified as the holdup Walking past a number of guo8tt on the porch and in the other lobby, the bandit, shortly before 1 o'clock this morning covered N'ight Clerk Cor. Casson and Night Watchman White-head White-head with a revolver and ordered them behind the counter Whitehead made an attempt to escape through a cloak room door, but a bullet from the ban dlfs gun dropped him dead. The shot roused the late guest6 and without attempting to secure any money or vaJuables. the bandit rushed through an outer door. Jumped a high porch railing and disappeared in the darknese nn |