The San Francisco call., 1904-04-16
Officers Of HanfOrd
Have Duel With
Fugitive.
Threats to Shoot Prevent
Immediate Capture
Of Culpfit.
Armed Citizens Gather and a Vigorous
Chase Is Made in the Country
Around HanfOrd.
Special Dispatch to The Can.

HANFORD. April 15.-One OF the
most exciting incidents that has hap
pened in this vicinity for long time
and one in which the peace officers
took their chances with a desperate
man heavily armed. occurred to-day
about noon. The result is that a
supposed criminal is dead from
a gUnshot wound. self-infiicted, after
he had been wounded by the officers,
and now the officers are trying to ind
out who he is and the reason he acted
so desperately when they tried TO ar
rest him.
The man was first seen just after
a freight train pulled into the Southern
Pacific station When Constable Bern
stein inquired who he was the man
drew a pistol and threatened TO shoot
Bernstein. The officer then hastened
10 telephone 70 the Sheriff's Office and,
having secured a rife, returned TO find
the man. When the officer reached the
cemetery east Of town a man said he
had seen the fugitive there and the
officer thought he was hiding, but after
looking through the cemetery decided
such was not the case.
POSSES ARE FORMED.
BY this time Sheriff Buckner, Dep
uty Ayres. Constable Goodrich and sew
eral armed citizens had arrived and
they learned that the man looked for
had been seen 10 start east across the
fields. The officers and men were then
divided into two posses, one following
the trail across the country and the
other going in rigs by the road to try
to head of the fleeing man. Each
posse had gone but a short way when
the man was seen in a field. The
man was then lost sight Of in the trees.
The chase was then renewed and after
the road posse had gone about mile
they saw the man in an open field and
he was soon surrounded by three off,
GERS and commanded to halt He re-
fused
Constable Bernstein then fired a shot
IN front Of him, and ne turned and fired
at the officers. Sheriff Buckner and
Constable Bernstein shot for his legs.
and he dropped. A moment later the
PROSTATE man fired another shot,
which the officers thought was at
them; but after waiting a few minutes
they closed in on him and found that
he had shot himself through the head.
SHOOTING OF FUGITIVE.
When the man fell he had been shot
in the leg. the left one having been
broken. The officers found that he had
been armed with an automatic re-
volver, for which he had thirty-nine
cartridges. He had no papers by which
he could be identified. but the off,
GERS had not looked at him long before
they decided he was Fahey. one Of the
escapes from Folsom last July.
As soon as the Coroner arrived Sher-
iG Buckner returned TO town and
looked uD the description Of Fahey in
his Office. and, although it tailed
very much with that Of the dead man,
he said he cid not think he was
Fahey, but all the other officers think
q is Fahey The description Of Fahey
says that he is feet 7lk inches, and
this man was Of that height The
grayish blue eyes also correspond with
those Of the dead man: he has the
large scar on the left side Of the head.
exactly as Fahey. he has the dark
brown hair, but somewhat curly: there
are scars on the back Of his hand.
where warts might have been. as the
description OF Fahey says he had
warts on one hand. This man was
about 80 years old and would weigh
about 1e5 pounds, while Fahey is said
% weigh but las; but he might have
Increased in weight he also has a
scar from a gunsh0t wound on the left
leg Just below the knee.