Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-04
WEALTHY MINER
SHOT BY R0BBER.
GEORGE DOUGLASS FIGHTS IN
THE DARK
San Jose Man Meets Burglar in Din
ing Room and Bloody Duel
FoIIows-BureI Wounded
and in Custody
BY Associated Press.

SAN JOSE, April BIN a battle with
a burglar at 2 o'clock this morning
George Douglass a wealthy retired
Colorado miner was probably fatally
shot in his residence at 1896 Alameda,
and the burglar himself received two
wounds, neither of which, however, is
serious. Later the burglar was cap
tured at Santa Clara. Nine shots were
fired from two 3S-Caliber reVolvers be-
fore Douglass was left unconscious on
the floor and the burglar succeeded in
escaping through a~rear window. by
means of which he had effected his
entrance.
1t was o'clock when Mrs. Douglass
was awakened by a noise in her sleep
ing room on the second floor. She
aroused her husband, who got up and
endeavored to turn on the electric light,
only to discover that it had been turned
off from below. Lighting "a hand lamp.
he got his revolver and proceeded down
stairs to the dining room, where he saw
a man standing with revolver in one
hand eating Il banana. Douglass i'm
mediately fired, and the burglar, drop
ping the fruit. replied with a shot and
began to back toward the kitchen,
Douglass following and both firing as
they went.
rights IN the OdTk
The lamp was dropped and extin-
guished and in the kitchen the burglar
clinched with Douglass and struck him
over the head with the butt of the re-
volver, knocking him senseless. The
burglar then escaped.
Douglass was conveyed to the O'Con-
nor santarium, where he is lowering
between life and death with an ugly
wound in his groin, which shattered
the pelvic bone. The burglar about I
o'clock presented himself at the resi-
dence of DR.. Beatty at Santa Clara for
treatment for two wounds in the right
leg. and the physician, his suspicious
aroused telephoned the sheriff's office.
In the Jail the burglar said his name is
Fred Paul. He says he rode up from
San Francisco to Palo Alto on a wheel
yesterday afternoon. He came on to
this city on his wheel and between II
and l o'clock began operations. He put
out the electric lights by means of the
switchboard on the rear porch and
climbed through window, took off his
shoes and went through every room in
the house. When he heard Mrs. Doug
lass move he slipped downstairs again
and went to the dining table and took
a banana. He was eating this when
Douglass appeared and the shooting
began.
Burglar Keeps Diary
In the pocket of the prisoner, who is
only Is years old, was found a diary
in which he had kept notes of burglaries
committed in Palo Alto and in San
Francisco. From these notes it is evil
dent that he is the man who COM
mitted all the recent burglaries in the
former town and a number in San
Francisco.
At the hospital the bullet was ex-
tracted from the wound in Douglass
groin and the latest report is that there
is a chance for his recovery.
The burglar this afternoon told the
sheriff that his true name is Henry
Cramer. that he enlisted in company
I, Fourteenth infantry regulars, at his
home in Reading, Pa, June 3, 1905
swearing that he was Fl years old, and
deserted from the company at Port
dian. Ore, at the beginning of last
month. His diary begins at Portland
March ., and is closed al San Jose
April 2, including the following items:
"NIarch is, San Francisco, S"oke;
March 81. San Francisco, confectionery
store, $5S March q. San Francisco
saloon. $3.50; March "a, San Francisco
bakery $3.50: March 26. Palo Alto, $12;
March 20, San Francisco, saloon, SO;
March 30, Frisco. nothing doing; March
81. Palo Alto. nothing doing: April /,
San Jose, nothing doing; April 2, San
Jose broke"
He stated this afternoon that he had
M acCOmpliCes