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NEBR AsKA CoNvICTs.
Harsh Punishment Which is Inflicted
on Criminals.

on Criminals.
OMAHA, March pa special to the
Omaha Bee from Lincoln says: Testi-
mony taken by the joint committee APP
pointed by the House and Senate to in
vestigate the condition and management
of the State Penitentiary was submitted.
1t covers about fifty pages of type written
manuscript. The fact seems to have been
pretty clearly established that some forms
of punishment inflicted at the peniten-
tlary Is unnecessarily harsh.
The investigation also brought out the
fact that the favorite form of torture at
the penltentiary consisted of placing the
convict in the hole" or dark cellar, with
his hands cutfed and drawn up toward
the back Of his neck with rope first
passed around his neck in such a manner
that every effort made by the man under
going punishment to lower MS hands
from the painful elevation drew the rope
SO tightly behind his neck that suffoca-
ton would ensue.
The committee then recommended that
this form of punis -g4ent be dispensed
with. This recommendation seems to
have been neglected to some extent, but
a new mode of torture has been brought
into prominence. The convicts are hand
cuffed to a rope. The other end of the
rope Is passed over pulley in the cell
ing and the convict hauled up until he
can barely touch the floor with his toes.
He is LETT in this position until he is
either sufficiently punished or faints
dead away. In the latter case he is laid
down, bucket of water thrown over
him TO revive him, and he is then con-
Quoted back to his cell or q cot in the hos
pital.
Many persons testified to these facts.
and the committee reported In favor of a
system of leasing the penitentiary, which
will probably be adopted.
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known to have some money in the house,
but none was discovered in the ruins.
ARIZONA LEGISLATURE.
The Eighteenth Session Comes to an
Abrupt End.

The Eighteenth Session Comes to an
Abrupt End.
PHOENIX (Ariz.), March 22-Amid
scenes of wild disorder the Eighteenth
Session of the Territorial Assembly came
to an abrupt termination at l o'clock this
morning. After bitter fight the bill
creating Navajo County, in the north
eastern part of the Territory, was passed
by both houses. The general appropria-
tions bill was then taken up IN the
House, and every scheme to delay its
passage was resorted to. The object of
this delay was to kill all chances for the
removal of the penitentiary from Yuma
to Prescott, for which the Santa Fe Rail-
road Company's agents have been max
ing fight A vote was prevented until
after midnight, when the session lapsed
through limitation, Speaker Carpenter
arbitrarily adjourned the House. Nearly
all Territorial officers and institutions
are thus left without funds for the COM
ing two years. An extra session can be
called only by Congress at its next ses-
sion.
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BEET SUGAR.
The WatsonviIle Factory Soon to Close
Up a Long Season.

Up ~ Long Season.
SANTA CRUZ. March 22.-The Watson
vile Sugar Factory will close up a long
seasons work tomorrow night. The to-
tai tonnage of beeis handled during the
season is estimated at 142, 900 tons. OF this
amount the Salinas Valley and Cooper
ranch contributed 1900 tons, Pajaro
Valley $4,000 tons, and the Morocoio ranch
Ii, 900 tons.
The season was protracted by the rains
and difficulties attending the delivery of
the beets at the factory, owing to the in
clemency Of the weather and general
hackwardness of the crops.
The average yield of the entire beet dis
trict is sixteen tons per acre, although IN
some instances the yield has been from
twenty-five to thirty five tons per acre
The work OF preparing land for next
seasons crop has already been begun.
Contracts for 3, 500 acres in Pajaro Valley
have been signed, 1t is expected that
5000 acres will be planted to sugar beets
this year in Pajaro and Salinas Valleys
and San Benito County.
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CHANGED wIru MURDER
Trial of Indians Suspected With tn
Killing Of Mrs platt

Trial of Indians Suspected With the
Killing Of Mrs. Plat.
Los ANGELES. March 22.-Tbe trial of
the three Indians-Mateo Pa, Antoine
Ashman and francisco Guavich- from
the Pichinga reservation, charged with
the murder of Mrs. Mary J. Platt, the
school teacher. on the night Of September
10th last, was colhmenced to-day. The
principal witness examined was little
Hattie Leslie, the niece OF the deceased
woman. Her testimony went to show
that on the afternoon OF the murder the
three defendants called AT the school
house, Mateo Pa demanding money of
Mrs. Platt, which was refused him. He
went away very angry, and about 9
O'Clock that night the school was burnes!
10 the ground and Mrs. PIatrs remains
were found in the ashes. Mrs. Platt was
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MIssoURrs NATIONAL GUARD.
A Dissolution of the State Militia May
Come to Pass

a Dissolution Of the State Militia May
Come to Pass
KANSAS CITY, March %. The Journal
tomorrow will say: General Milton
Moore, Bragadier- Commander OF the
Missouri National Guard, has rendered
his resignation to Governor Stone, and
the result will be that others OF the Stale
officers will follow suit, and that the dis
solution of the State militia may ulti-
mateIy come to pass. The resignation of
General Moore is the result of the Legis-
lature's refusal to grant the militia sutli-
Gent money to properly keep up its
standing.
AdJutant-General Wickham came here
from Jefferson City this evening to try
and persuade General Moore to Withdraw
his resignation, but that gentleman was
obdurate. His action is viewed with
alarm, and it is already said that the
Third Regiment, stationed in this city,
will soon disband. General Moore has
Deen connected with the State militia
since 1873, and has been at its head since
1891. He is resident of Kansas city.
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The War in tho Orient.

LONDON, March ga dispatch to the
Times from TIen-Tsin says that the Jap
anese cruisers have been lowering out
side the Taku forts for the last three dsys
searching trading vessels. kilograms
from the Chinese mission at Shimoneski
to the PekIn Government have been in
tercepted by the Japanese. A HongkouE
dispatch says risings have occurred at
Mmluk and adjacent towns, in the pro-
vince of Kwang-Tung. Troops sent from
Canton to quell the risings were repulsed
with heavy loss. A siege of Muiluk is
now intended.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Millard.

Los ANGELES, March 22.-The state
ment was telegraphed here from San
Francisco to-day that Lieutenant Gov
ernor Millard was at the point OF death at
Indio from lung disease. 1t was learned
from dispatch received tonight that
Mr.. MilIard is not likely to create va
cancy in his office. Mr.. MilIard is still
living in his private car at Indio, but
walks back and forth for his meals, and
is gaining daily in health. While no
date has been set Tor his return to Los
Angeles, he expects that in the course of
week or ten days his health Will permit
him to resume his usual av avocations
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Died in a poorhouse.

SAN Francisco. March 22.-John Tim
mons, one of the builders of the South
Yuba Canal, once millionaire miner, is
dead at the Almshouse. lie was asso-
ciated with the bonanza people in the
seventies and finally lost all his money
In stock speculations, graduating into
the poorhouse. Ia the mites he was as
soclated with }. ). Green, the Hdsseys
and others in developing Nevada Coun-
TVS resources, building the Remington
Hill Ditch and the South Yuba Canal.
IImmons sold his mines to AlvinZa Hay
ward for large sum, speculated in
stocks here with the proceeds, and ended
in The pOorhonSa
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Overdue steamships.

BALTIMORE, March 2l.-Three large
ocean steamships are now overdue at this
port. They are the Johnson liners Balti-
more and Mentmore, which have been
out twenty days from Liverpool, and the
Dutch tank steamship from Rotterdam,
La Campigne. over three weeks at sea.
The trip should not have occupied over
seventeen or eighteen days. 1t is thought
the vessels have been delayed by stormy
weather,
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Delaware Senatorial Contest.

DOVER lDel.), March 22.-But one bal
lot was taken for United States Senator
to-day. The declaration of the Higgins
men that they would vote for a new man
each day until q Senator was chosen was
not carried out. Representative Ball was
absent, which accounts for the falling otf'
in the Addicks vote. The ballot re-
suited: Higgins s, Addieks 3, Massey 4,
Ridgely ~, Bayard l.
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severe Snoyystorm

SIssoNs, March 22.-This vicinity was
visited last night and this morning with
a very severe snowstorln. The fall
amounts to twenty-tour inches. The
southern Pacific Company sent their big
push plow through from Dunsmnir tn
Ed9ewood in order to ciear the track for
the regular northbound Dragon express.
The storm was preceded by one OF the
most severe winds OF the season.
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Governor Mckinley of Ohio.

TOWNSVILLE (Ga.), March Gov
ernor Mckinley OF Ohio has had an at
tack of the grippe, but is doing we'll. His
physicians say he will be all right and
ready to leave here perhaps on Monday.
His Florida trip will be cut short, going
only as far as st. Augustine. He ex poets
to reach home before the lst OF April.
Senator Pritchard of North Carolina,
who has been here in consultation with
the Governor, has left for Washington.
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GARCIA Is DEAD.
Confirmation of the Report of the Kill
ing of the Mexican Outlaw.

Ing of the Mexican Outlaw.
WASHINGTON, March %. = Writing
under date of San Jose, Costa Rica,
March 10th, United States Minister
Baker confirms the report of the death of
Catarinoe Garcia, the notorious Mexican
revolutionist and outlaw. The Minister
says that Garcia for some time past has
been residing in Costa Rica, but recently
lett Fort Limon for San Juan Del Norte,
Nicaragua. AT that place he gathered
around him some thirty men. chiefly
colombian exlles, and secured money
ana quantity OF small arms. A small
sailing craft was chartered, and the party
embarked on the I'd instant, landing the
following day. at Cahuita, Costa Rica,
thlrty-hve miles south of Port Limon.
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She Wanted a Bicycle.

SALT LAKE, March PA special to
the Herdtd from Butte, Mont, says ::
Mrs. William Tregear, wife of well-to-
DO mining man, ran away from her home
TINS afternoon, in company with mar
ried sister, and taking with her all OF her
husbands savings and their six-year-oId
boy: she left note behind telling her
husband that she had lett him for good
because he would not buy her a bicycle.
her sister also deserted husband.
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a FIGHT IN NEW YORK.
A MURDERER HANGED.
Was Cool Until the Rope Was Place
Around His Neck.

LAfUlLuU ITS NtCh.
TAHLEQUAH Il. F., March 22.-Walter
Bark was hanged in the Jail yard here
this afternoon for the murder Of John
Rees in Going Shake District several
years ago. On the scatfolti Bark made a
short talk, in which he said he was inno-
cent of the murder, and that he killed
Rees to prevent the latter from robbing
him. Bark was cool until the rope was
placed around his neck. Then he brok ke
down and had to be supported until the
drop fell. His neck was broken. Bark's
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SavaraI Men KfIInd-

LIEGE (Belgium), March PA general
strike of all the miners in the collieries
here has commenced. To-day the strik-
ers became riotOus, and there were sew
eral collisions between theIn and the po-
lice, in which revolvers and stones wero
freely used. Several men were killed in
the fight. The riugleaders OF the rioters
were arraataI.
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Carson Mint Scandal.

CARSON, March 22.-All sorts of wild
rumors are still being circulated here
about the Mint. Every stranger who gets
off at Reno is supposed to be detective
or a press correspondent. Nothing an
tbentic has yet been given out at the
Mint. 1t was reported to-day that the
investigation of the Inspector would not
be completed for month.
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on THE TURF.
Bad Day for Fayorites at the Bay
District Track.

District Track.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 22.-The muddy
track scared Oft the owners of the good
horses and the six-furlong handicap was
declared off. To make up the five races
the fourth event was split, the first half
going as the second race. 1t was a bad
day for favorites, Terra Nova being the
only one TO win.
Five turlorgs, selling, Fly won, Sallie
Calvert won, Raphael third. Time-I:O38.
Six furlongs, Faro won, Road Runner
second, Warrago third. Time -1:I5.
One mile, selling, Trix won. Arno Sec
ond, by by third. Time-l:46!.
SIX turlongs, Terra Nova won, Arctic
second, My Sweetheart third. Time-l:l6.
Five furlougs, selling, Mainstay won,
Grando second, Sligo third. Time-I:03I.
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Sale of the Ryer Estate propertx

san FRANCISCO, March 22.-The sale
of the Ryer estate property at the south
west corner of Market and Third streets
TO Claus Spreckels for S306. 900 was con-
frmed in the Superior Court this alter
noon. 1t Is reported that magnificent
building for one OF the morning news
papers will be erected on the site.
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Wyoming Mine Disaster.

EVANSTON, Wyo., March %. = Four
more bodies were brought out of the
mine at 2:30 P. NJ, making twenty one
bodies that have been recovered since
yesterday afternoon. There are good
prospects that the other bodies will be
recovered, as the ventilation in the mine
is getting better. a general funeral will
take place on Sunday.
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crime wrs committed nearly four years
ago. He escaped, and was not appre-
hended until a year ago, when he was
captured at Fort Smith, Ark. He was a
ll-blooded Cherokee and was 80 years
of age
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FISTIC ARENA,
Jack McAuliffe and Young GrifTo to
Meet In the Ring.

NhSAuiIIIS anu OuOs TO
Meet in the Ring.
NEW YORK, March 22.-Jack McAu-
life, the lightweight champion of the
world, and Hugh Behan, representing
young Gritfo of Australia to-day signed
articles of agreement for finish fight for
private stake of $4,000 side, the fight
to be before the club offering the largest
purse. The fight is to be for the cham
pionship of the world. each to weigh,
stripped at the ringside, 135 pounds or
less, the gloves not to exceed three ounces
in weight, and the fight to take place on
or about October 10, 1895. The referee is
to be mutually agreed on before the date
of the fight.
FIGHT IN NEW YORK.
LoCKPORT, March 22.-Jake Callahan,
Brooklyn middle-weight, and Billy
Welch, self-styled champion of the
Northwest, fought near Middleport last
night. Welch knocked Callahan out in
the fourth round with left upper-cut
and right-hand drive in the ribs.
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Buckley Found Guilty.

SAN Francisco. March %. = j. A.
Buckley, charged with felony in having
altered the election returns in the Tenth
Precinct OF the Thirty fifth Assembly
District, was found guilty by jury in
the Superior Court this morning.
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Death sentence.

NEW YORK, March 22.-Robert S.
buchanan, the wife poisoner, was re-
sentenced to death to-day by Recorder
COT. The execution is to take place in
the week beginning April I'D.
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Case of the Diamond Cutters.

New YORK, March 22.-The Special
Board of Inquiry, convened for the pur-
pose of disposing of the diamond cutters
who were taken from the steamship
Majestic, was kept busy to-day. 1t is
said that unless an appeal in their case
is made, they will be returned on the
next White Star line steamship sailing
out OF port. Collector kilDretz acknowl-
edged that the matter of barring vessels
up at any time, day or night, had been
discussed, and that his superiors con-
CURED with his ideas OF the situation.
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AvatIable Cosb R.lonca

WASHINGTON, March 21.-To-day's
statement OF the condition OF the Treas
ury shows: Available cash balance,
Slo5, 237, ,795; gold reserve, 9O,96I, 500.
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The Robinsons Taken TO Prison.

BUFFALO On. ", March 22.-Clarence
Robinson was taken to Auburn to-day
to serve his sentence of life imprisonment
for the murder of Montgomery Gibbs.
Sadie Robinson was taken to Auburn to-
night.
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Tax on Bachelors.

SPRINGFIELD (Ill.) March 22.-Repre-
sentative Walleck introduced bill in
the Legislature to-day to levy a tax on
bachelors
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ALASKA TERRITORY.
Attention Again Called to the
Rights of the United States.
ENGLAND LAYING CLAIM TO A VAL
UABLE PORTION.

Reports That the United Stated WouId
Become Entangled in the Trouble
Between Great Britain and NIca-
ragus Do Not Seem TO MateriaIize-
The Question Readily Susceptible
of Peaceful Adjustment.
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The ocean hydra have no heart, no
lungs, no liver, no brains, no nervous
system, no organs save mouth and skin.
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nevoIutfon in Perm Endea.

BUENos AYREs, March 22.-An official
dispatch received III this city states that
the revolution in Peru is ended. and that
General Caceres, who resigned the Presi-
dency shortly after the armistice at Lima.
will leave the country.
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Case at Leprosy at New York.

New YORK, March 22.-The Health
Board learned to-day that there had been
man stricken with leprosy living for the
past six years in tenement house in this
city. President Waldren said that the
facts, so far as ascertained, had been
given TO Sanitary Superintendent Ro-
berts, and that prompt and thorough
Investigation would follow. The man's
name and address has not been given out.
Although it has been handled during the
past few years by two physicians and
brought to the notice of the medical staff
of the Presbyterian Hospital, it has never
been reported TO the Board of Health
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a CALIFORNIA REDWOOD.
Efforts to Preserve One of the Attrac-
lions of the Worlds Fair,

~ FSSSFNe one Oh Ln6 AttraCs
lions of the Worlds Fair.
WAsHINGTON, March 22.-The incle-
ment weather of the past winter has had
a serious effect on the trunk of the Sc
quota, or California redwood tree, that
was such an attraction at the Worlds
Fair, and was afterward brought to
Washington and set up in the grounds of
the Agricultural Department.. Large
portions of the bark of the tree have
fallen off as result of exposure to rain
and trosts. Workmen are now engaged
in replacing these pieces, holding them in
place by wrapping wire tightly around
the tree, and when this is completed an
umbrella-llke covering will be erected
over the top of the trunk, sufficient to
keep the rain from dropping down the
sides. The trunk is about thirty feet In
hight and probably about half as thick.
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Village Destroyed by a Landslfde.
ROME, March pa terrible lan3slida
has destroyed the village of Bolaria, near
Planetarla.
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PURPOSE OF STATE MILLERs.
They Will Combine aud Protect Them.
selves Against the Mammoth Mills of
the Country.

They viii Combine aud Protect Them.
seIve. Against the Mammoth Mills Of
the Country.
Philadelphia. Sept. 1.-THE Pennsyl-
vanM State Millers' association got
down to business Immediately after the
opening of its session this morning.
William G. Audenried. president of the
Pennsylvania Milling and Export COM
pany, an association of a score of mills
of the state designed to secure better
freight facilities and rates to compete
with the mammoth mills In the open
market, read a paper in which he urged
the millers to combine together for pro-
lection against the big mills. which ne
contended are practically trusts and
are operated to the disadvantage Of the
small miller. 1t was stated to the meet
ing that the question of the railroad
companies granting to the Pennsylva-
mia millers milling" privilege in trans
porting the products of their mills was
being considered by the Reading rail-
road. A resolution was adopted that
the commercial exchanges of the coun-
try be requested to substitute after
July |. 1896 the GENITAL measure of 100
pounds weight for grain In place Of
the bushel measure now used. Another
resolution was adopted condemning the
Belgian. French and German govern
ments for placing an import duty upon
American flour and requesting the
president and congress to take retali-
atory measures. Secretary Richardson
and Treasurer Landis Levan. of Lam
caster Were reelected and the follow
ing were elected for the ensuing year:
President, Colonel Asher Miner. of
Wilkes-Barre; presidents, Jacob V.
Edge, of DowningtOwn, and Nathan
Sellers. of Philadelphia; directors. b.
+. lsenberg, Judge Cyrus Hoffa, George
T. 1ngkam and f.. r. Freed, After the
election of officers the convention ad-
journed for today
This mornings session practically
winds up the business of the millers.
This afternoon they visited various
places of interest about the city, and
tomorrow they will go to Atlantic City.
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PARADE At Louisville
War Veterans Arc Cheered by 100000
Citizens Along Line Of March.
THIRTY THOUSAND IN LINE
Pennsylvania Departments and Posts In
the First DivisiOn-Thc Column
Four Hours in Passing the
Review Stand.

Louisville, KY, Sept. 1.-THE terri
BILE accident which cost the lives of four
members of the Louisville Legion this
morning cast IA gloom over the Grand
Army of the Republic parade today,
but, nevertheless, the turnout of the
veterans was a memorable sight. and
100000 people cheered them as they
marched along.
1t was a gigantic and sincere tribute
TO the sentiment THAT was head of the
procession and which was worn today
on badges innumerable. "One flag, one
country" The line of march was linn
tied to two and half miles, and the
change was wise one, for the heat
was intense and the sun beat down
upon the unshaded roaIdways with re-
morseless fury.
The members of the various citizens
committees on horseback acted as es-
corts to carriages containing Governor
Brown and staff and Mayor Tyler and
city officials. who headed the process
sion. The line consisted Of ten divi-
sions and rough estimate placed the
number OF men in line at over 10000.
The cheering along the line of the route
was incessant from start to finish. The
Pennsylvania departments and posts
were I'm the first division with Illinois
ana wisconsin. The New York, Mas
sachusetts, pennsylvania and Illinois
veterans got the major share OF the
hurrahs. At the court house the line
was reviewed by the commander In
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AN EX.FlREMAN,S CRIME.
A Survivor Of tho Worlds Fair Big Blaze
Commits Murder,

Chicago. Sept. 1l.-John Dram, an ex-
fireman, said to be one of the survivors
of the fatal cold storage fire at the
Worlds fair, shot and killed Joseph
Conlon in front of the latter's home,
No. 304 Austin avenue about midnight
last night. The cause of the shooting
1t appears, was an imaginary grievance
which Dram had against his victim.
The only witness to the affair was
Miss Agnes Conlon. She said her
borther was sitting on the front steps
of their house when Dram and his wife
passed. Dram stopped to talk to her
brother. but the conversation became
loud after few minutes, when sud-
denly Dram said: Joe. If you don't
leave me alone l will kill you
The next moment Dram pulled re-
volver and fired three shots in quick
succession. Only one of them took eff
feet. striking Conlon in the left breast,
and ne died in a few minutes.