Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-01
REJON To
PERPE7RATE
.3RD ROBBERY
BULLET PLoWS BRAIN or
PATR0LMAN LYON
PAIR ESCAPE FROM GROCERY IN
STOLEN BUGGY; WRECKED
Pursued by Crowd, Highwaymen Es-
cape Through AlIey-searching
One, Officer Is Shot by
Second

Patrolman p. H. Lyon, attached to
the University police station, was shot
and fatally wounded in a battle with
two holdup men at Fourteenth street
and Central avenue shortly after
o'clock last night.
Lyon was shot down without warn
ing by one of the two holdup men while
he was in the act of disarming the
partner of the man who shot him.
The shooting occurred a few mo-
ments after the two men had held up
and robber the Magnolia Winery,
wholesale liquor store at 1404 South
Central avenue
The two men previous to this had at
tempted to rob the grocery store of
Ernest Gerlemann at 81 South Central
avenue and had made sensational es-
cape from there in a stolen wagon
The two men first appeared at the
Gerlemann grocery shortly after 10
o'clock. They entered the front door
: d approaching a woman clerk asked
her for change for two dollars in scrip.
AS she passed from behind the
counter to approach the front of the
store where the proprietor was stand
ing both men drew black handkerchiefs
over their faces and drew pistols from
their pockets.
AS the proprietor saw the move he
cried, Here comes two policemen now.
At this the men ran from the store
and jumped into the Gerlemann wagon.
which was standing in front of the
store, and whipping up the horse
dashed down Central avenue.
Chased by Citizens
They were chased for three blocks
| by citizens who had been attracted by
| the cries from the store. and then the
wagon turned into Twelfth street and
4 half block from the corner was
nlral hxy ali xr,ifI .to 1fr,rr
| S street car.
The wheel was torn from the wagon
| and both men were pitched out but
! they quickly recovered themselves and
r-n ear to small alley and dashed
south.
| Within a few minutes the vicinity
was swarming with officers.
One of the men sent to the scene was
Patrolman Lyon. and as he was pass
ing Fourteenth street and Central
avenue he heard an exclamation from
the wine store of Grosser brothers.
The officer looked in the store and
| saw two men with masks over their
faces backing from the store
| He stepped to one side and allowed
them to come from the door, when he
threw his gun on them and commanded
them to halt.
Both stopped and Lyon backed the taller
of the two men up against the wall of
the building. and while he held his re-
volver in one hand proceeded to search
his prisoner with the other.
| The smaller man of the two was stand
ing almost alongside the officer while
this was going on. Without warning he &
drew revolver from his coat pocket, and
pointing it directly in the face of the Of
ficer fired one shot.
Brain Penetrated
The bullet entered at She ineida oor.
ner of the right eye and penetrated the
brain. The policeman dropped to the
pavement with groan and both men
ran, one going north and the other south
on Central avenue.
The sound of the shot was heard by the
firemen of hose company No. and sew
eral ran across the street and found the
wounded officer lying in a pool OF blood
on the sidewalk.
the police ambulance telephoned for. At
the receiving hospital the surgeons stated
that there was no hope of saving his lfe
| From the scene of the shooting the rob-
bers seemingly by agreement made their
way to Twelfth and Tennessee streets and
there robbed a small grocery store of a
few dollars just as the proprietor was
closing his place of business.
At the Magnolia. winery the bandits Sc
cured about $780, all of the money in
the cash register at the time. taking 1t
from Arthur Grosser as he was making
up his cash for the night.