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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>March 3,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>JUMPS FROM TRAIN AND OUTRUNS BULLETS</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Italian After Shooting Clerk in Hand Escapes From
Officer Who Arrested Him</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> Thousands of people have read of shooting
scrapes in this section, but yesterday morning at St. Paul about two hundred
people had a chance to see a human target running as fast as he could from an
officer who fired four shots after him while several were shouting for someone
else to shoot. Fortunately for the Italian, no one else had fire arms and
he made good his escape for the time being.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The Italian, who will have to be nameless as
he left without divulging his identity, was arrested at Dante where he had shot
a clerk in the hand. Officer Kelly of the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio
police was taking the man to Lebanon to the county jail and was seated in the
Norfolk and Western first class coach when the Italian, who was handcuffed on
one hand, asked to be allowed to go into the smoker. The officer agreed to
this and walked behind the prisoner until he reached the platform, when the man
made a flying leap from the train and started on the run before the officer
recovered from his surprise.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Immediately pulling his gun the officer went
after the Italian, while all of the passengers in both the Norfolk and Western
and Clinchfield trains put their heads out of the windows to see what was going
on. Interest in the uneven race seemed to take the breath from the people,
who as in every case of the kind, wanted to see the prisoner get away, no matter
what he was charged with. Four shots were fired at the man, but when the
train left the place the man was still uncaptured.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The sight, said passengers on train No. 2
yesterday afternoon was a thrilling one and everybody expected to see the
running Italian drop every time the pistol cracked, sending a leaden messenger
after him.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The shooting occurred 9 o'clock yesterday
morning just as the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio and Norfolk and Western
trains had met at St. Paul, the junction point between the two roads.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>