Show MURDEROUS assault charles meighan shot by a burglar ENTERING HIS VICTIMS ROOM ROOK he steals steal ills money creates a noise wake t tho sleeper who jumps up and receives a bullet charles meighan ol 01 the abstract film of avey 51 meighan eighan was shot through the kit left lung by a burglar who bo entered his room at 4 a in yesterday morning Thep as received from rom the injured man are necessarily brief iio lie I 1 states that be went to his lo deines on 1 1 twenty fourth between adams and jefferson I 1 at 10 saday night ha lie eat sat up and wrote 80 some 8 letters otters and read until about midnight when ft ben be retired ab about 0 ut 4 a m he waa was awakened by a noise issuing from one corner of 0 the room lie at once realized bat that a burglar had bad entered hia his room and was engaged in robbing his truck trunk he ile jumped up un to grapple with the intruder in the hope that a gentleman in the adjoining room who was sitting op up with a sick friend would come to hia his assistance on hearing the As be he was about to reach for the bol bold d thief the latter pushed a gun n t to 0 within six inches of 0 his breast andu and f fired ir e d the bullet atrock a little above the left nipple passed through the left lung and went out at the back afterwards being found I 1 in his shirt delghan felt fell on bis his face as be he saw the fellow disappear through the open door the to revolver diver which did the shooting was found found a few feet from the victim having haying been dripped by the thief in bis his hurry burry he cot away with over two hundred dollars however ho weter which be he had secured before waking op up the owner the trunk kas was the only disarranged article i in the room on hearing bearing the shot the man in the adjoining room rushed in ili and followed out after the burglar but all trace was lost of him though a woman residing g ina in a bouse on the cast is said to hav seen him clambering over a fence no c clue in e has been secured of the would be mur derer word was wis at once bent sent to a physician and dr graves and ana dr gordon lordon C attended late last evening he hs waa was still alive though it was doubtful that he be would live until morning at 3 this mornine morning the wounded man was visited and there were hol boes as of f bis his living until after da daylight ggut the rhe doctor baa has ellone strong ell one hopes of bis I 1 s recovery if he pulls today to day |