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Show FATALLY SHOT IN FIGHT Wounded Man Administers Adminis-ters Severe Beating to One of Assailants New York. June 7. After Thomas Smith had been mortally shot through the stomach by one of five men on . the roof of the five-story' tenement In which he lived in East One Hundred ; and Second street, last night, he pursued pur-sued John McNally to the street, chas- ed him three blocks and Was administering admin-istering a severe beating when McNally McNal-ly escaped. Smith then cnased McNally Mc-Nally back to the roof ana there cornered cor-nered him and had him armost unconscious un-conscious from a beating when others interfered. When the police came, Smith denied de-nied that he was wounded, but they saw the blood stains and insisted on taking him to the' hospital, where the doctors said he would probably die. The five men who were engaged m the fight with Smith were arrestee and although Smith refused lo say who shot him. the police say that several witnesses pointed out McNally. |