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...motion crawled back out through the hole with enough loot for six riotous months in the West. A year later, broke and back for more, he clung by a rope-ladder to the same train as it sped through the night towards Utica. This time he smashed a window, shot the guard's gun out of the guard's hand, kept him covered until the train got to Utica. There he boarded a locomotive and raced off down the track with another locomotive full of angry police in pursuit. Suddenly Perry reversed his engine, opened fire, pursued his pursuers until...
...Rowe collected reserves from headquarters, deputized Reporter Leary on the spot. From whimpering Mrs. Bray the identity and whereabouts of the murderer were found. Captain Rowe, Reporter Leary and seven others went in after him, cornered him in a dark back room. Leary was ordered outside to cover the window with a flashlight...
Bray repeatedly shot through the door, raking Captain Rowe across the stomach, then jumped out the window. Twice Reporter Leary ordered him to stand. Twice Bray clicked his jammed revolver at him. Then Reporter Leary, onetime U. S. Army sidearms instructor, fired at Bray, shot him through the head...
From another source came another conflicting story about Mrs. McPherson's condition. At Des Moines, Mrs. Peggy Myrtle King, Templar, said that the evangelist was suffering a nervous relapse because a lunatic had hurled a snake through her window. Los Angeles Templars were debating whether or not they should begin a three-day fast to restore Sister's sight, although the attending physician announced that she would probably be able to deliver the Sunday sermon...
...April 24: ... I have just gone to the window in time to see our President come out. If he had yielded one thing about Fiume [to Italy], the world would never believe in us or our idealism...