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Show ONE BANDIT 15 WOUNDED Girl ttai Her Nose Shot Off Policeman Is Dying Chicago, Nov. 11 Five persons were shot, two of them probably fatally, fa-tally, in an attempt early toda to rob the saloon of I-ouls Belmont In the town of Cicero neur here. Three bandits made the attempt at robbery and when the saloonkeeper fired up-i up-i en them a revolver lattle began. Or.5 of the bandits was shot through the head and is not expected to recover Policeman John Kan'1, who run to the aid of Helmont, was shot through the lodv fie times and will probably die Miss Millie Collier, a waitress, wn. hit by a bullet while In an adjolnnj room Her nose was shot off Belmont was hit by bullets but his wounds are nt fatal. Fred Cobb, a patron of the place, was hit bv three- bullets, but his injuries in-juries are not fatal llelmont was closing his place for thu night when the bandits entered with drawn revolvers and demanded the contents of the cash register. Belmont Bel-mont opened the register and at the same time seizing his revolver. Aa he whirled and opened fire, Cbb, the patron, also drew a pistol and begau to shoot. I Before the roblers got out of the ibilldlng, Cobb had been shot down, the waitress was wounded nnd Belmont Bel-mont was hit twice. Policeman Kane took up the fight ouUtlde, being only a short distance from the fleeing trio. They kept their fire on him. and when two of them got away in the darkness, dark-ness, Kane lay mortally wounded, a few- feet from where Belmont had fallen, nnd one of the burglars was lying, shot through the head. It Is said neither Kane nor the bandit can live. |