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Show NEGRO DIES IN THRILLING FIGHT Policeman Shoots Assailant to Save Himself From Five-Story Five-Story Fall XFAV T.OB K. Oct. 13. Patrolman Martin Gill yesterday struggled for twenty minutes on the roof of a fivt--story building with u San Domingo negro he was trying to nrrst mjd Ihcn shot his ant;i?i dvl f save himself from being hurled into ih street. Thrt m-Rro with u bullet In hU Stomach Stom-ach slid off the roof, falling Into a basket of wash left un th- Bide Walk. There he died a few minutes later. Scores of pedestrians stood on sixth I avenue transfixed, watching the struggle strug-gle while guests In several hotels nearby pressed their faces to arlnd6i 1 panes. Finally a foiiner sailor dash'd H)stalr.H to the roof and caught (111! I by one leg Just as the negro was about ; to roll him Into the street ' Th neiiro, identified aa Rafael Co-tin, Co-tin, by this time hud obtafned Gill's pistol. He flreo at the patrolman, wounding him In tho shoulder. Tin sailor t racked Colin on th- head w ith a piece of wood and. Gill regaining his weapon, first twice ax the negro made his last furious rurh. Ifedh il Exjindner N'orrls lattr expressed tho opinion Colon WM insjn-. Gill a veteran of the world war, who recently rescued two women from drowning In Central Park labs iSWlrt he had attempted to urn-st Cotin on romplalnt of a woman that he had Insulttd her. |