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Show SHOT DOWN BY HOLDUP GANG. 'C. A. Nickerson. Seriously Wounded in Gun Battle With Bandits SAIiT r,AKE, Jan. 10. Charles A. Nirkcrson. 28 years of age. 3.18 H street, sales engineer fr the Allls-Chalmers Allls-Chalmers Manufacturing company, was shot clown In a running pistol battle bat-tle with three bandit shortly neforo o'clock last night- He was removed to tho Holy Cross hospital, where an hour later Dr. A J. Murphy reported that he has a chance of recovery. Ono of the bullets pierced the left shoul-dor. shoul-dor. causing a hemorrhage. In tho pleural cavity. The other bullet struck hi spine and skirted a rib on the right side. The bandits escaped. Ho was attacked on the east sldo of (' street between South Temple street and First avenue. Nickorr.on said that the bandits, three In number, num-ber, came toward him from the alley behind the First Preebyterlan church. Ordered him to hold up his hands instead in-stead of which ho began shooting, he said, and at tho same tlmo running past them. Ono of the bandits rired two shots at hlni. Nickerson said. A, K. Mitchell, Mit-chell, chief clerk to the district sup- mti-mifnt i i I le W. stoi n l"ni"n T lt-Ki U'li company, attracted by the shooting, found Nickerson at the entrance en-trance to th Siewurt apartments at C and First avenue, where he had OoUapeed from where he was removed to the hospital. Detectives Clifford W. Patten and Lester K. Wire investigated the shooting, shoot-ing, but were unable to find any trace of the bandits. Nickerson Is married and has three children. With his wife and sister. Miss Nollle NleUernon, he recently re-t re-t irni-il from .mending the funeral Of ins father, a. Nickereon at Denver, Colo. He was returning from choir practice prac-tice at the Cathedral of the Madeline when shot. |