Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-10-07

open and engaging in duel
with the robbers when he
could have shot at them from
ambush. Mr.. Hirschfeld says it was
not his purpose to fight at all. He
feared that they would exert an in
huence upon him to make him open
the safe and he wanted to go out on
the street where he would be more of
free moral agent. He took a shot at
one of the robbers for luck as he was
going out. The robber took two
shots at him, both passing through one
of the swinging doors, while Mr..
Hirschfeld passed through the other
The mark of the bullet he fired has
not been found yet, from which cir
cumstance it is suspected that the
robber was a slight of hand artist and
caught it in his teeth.
1t seemed tc be loosely conducted
affair for a hold-up.. Everybody who
wanted to go out was allowed to do so.
John Dewitt was leaning against a
crap table and things were coming his
way He had Sc in front of him and
an easy throw to make. He was just
in the act of making it when the ban
dts rushed in. The game suddenly
inspired him with ennui. He set the
leaving his money on the table. Out
side the door he met officers Hale and
Dowen and told them that the law
was being violated inside. Just then
there were three shots. When the Of
fcers ran in the robbers were going
ont. When Officer Hale got into the
alley he shot at one of them who was
rapidly fading away in the direction
of the St. Lawrence. A Chinaman on
top of roof farther up the street I
heard the shooting and saw the rob- /
bers running along the alley One CT
them kept On his way, but the other /
squatted down in the shadow in the /
rear of Jacobs store, where he r.
NAMED ten minutes. The Chinaman !
had gone to bed and did not like 20 I
disturb himself He related what he
had seen early yesterday morning, but
the information was received too late
10 be of great value. When they went
to look for the lurking bandit where
he Chinaman had seen him he was
gone, but his tracks were plain and
marks of cloth upon the ground showed
hat somebody had sat there.
The robbers did not get away with
Ill the money they stole, for there was
ound S35 in gold on the floor after he
vas gone. William Mclnich picked up
wo SIS gold pieces in the alley after
daylight.
James Collins, who contributed the
ll-gotten gains to these men, said
hat if they had managed the affair
they could have had $4,000
beside what was in the safe. There
we're a hundred experts in Phoenix
yesterday who made light of the crude
york, and told just how bandits should
ct in an emergency like this. After
IL, the enterprise was not a failure
nd whatever succeeds is a success. 1t
must be borne in mind that the whole
hing from the time the men rushed
nto the saloon and rushed out again
hardly a half minute by the
lock, though to some of the gentle
len present it seemed that the robbers {
we're dilatory and encroaching upon s
ternity with their slowness. 1t might !
ave been better planned, but the !
was we'll executed and the
hieves worked up to the full time
init A stay of ten more seconds {
yould have been death or Yuma to {
hem They knew exactly when to
nit, though they were surrounded {
nth wealth which could have been l
ad for the grabbing. t