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Show NEBHTWATCHMAS HAS CLOSE CALL SALT LAKE, Dec. 13 The deflection deflec-tion of a single degree of the angle at which a would-be assassin held a revolver as he fired at John Carlson, the night watchman at the Rio Grande last night, would have meant instant death for the latter instead of having a bullet graze his forehead and then pass into space. With the sting of this bleeding wound, Carl-con Carl-con still retained his conra?e and arrested ar-rested one of the pair of box car thieves and set out in search of tho man who had fired on him as soon as the wound was drcssesd. The shooting occurred at the Rio Grande yards, where Carlson detected two men robbing a box car containing shoes. He covered one with a gun until his companion came out of the car, then placed the pair under arrest and marched them to the station After going about two blocks one turned without warning and fired on Carlson at such close range that the powder burned his face. He returnpd fire, halting one man. but the robber who. fired the shot escaped. He bravely took his captive to the station house and turned him over to the police. The man was an Italian and gave his name as Sam George. Officers Find Loot. Cnrlscn was taken to the emergency rospitnl. where he was attended by Assistant City Physician H. B. Sprague who said that Carlson's escape es-cape pom instant death was the most miraculous thiug he had ever seen The bullet tore a wo.md two inches long across hla forehead, exposing the bone. It could not have come closer to the bone without penetrating the skull. Aftr his wound was dressed. Carlson Joined a special detail of officers of-ficers who were stnrchir? for the man who fired the shot. No trace cf the other man was found, but on searching search-ing George's room, the policemen found concealed a double-barreled shot gun and six rails of thoes, the footwear foot-wear being Identified as part of the loot from the box car. 00 |