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'is OF PRISONER 0 -Vallejo Policeman CleverlyOutwits Man Who Triesto Kescue a Companion »-------THFG FEABS TO SHOOT% ♦—-Peace Guardian Holds On toOne of a Trio of Bad MenFound in Boxcar at Depot♦ ---------VALLEJO, Feb. 12.—Sunday afternoon Officer Gehrman found three hobos In a boxcar at the North Vallejo depot and was taking: them to the police station when they made a break for liberty. One man ran back toward the track and another up an alley. The officer seized the third, handcuffed .him and then drew his revolver and fired in the air toward the man running up the alley. Gehrman had just got back to his prisoner when the man who had chosen the alley as a means of escape suddenly appeared and pointed a revolver at the officer. The latter ! quickly made a shield of his prisoner i and the man with the weapon, ratherI than make a target of his friend, darted j away.At the jail a revolver, fully loaded, a 1 bunch of skeleton keys and an electric flashlight were found on the prisoner.I Chief of Police Stanford thinks they are i holdup men or burglars from San Francisco. He had the man in jail photo-—d* graphed. As Harry Dalton the man ar-] rested was to-day sentenced to five I months in the County Jail on a vagrancy j charge. The police will investigate his '“4* ! record.; A big robbery had evidently been , Jc planned by the three men. Dalton says | the names of the other men are Jimmie | j Ross and A. O’Niell.— -
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San Francisco call
San Francisco, California, US
Tue, Feb 13, 1906
Page 11
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Rebecca K.
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