Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-31
ONE SLAIN, THREE
OTHERS HELD UP
Man Dies at Receiving Hospital
After FoOtpad's Sandbag
Fractures Skull T
HlGHWAYMAN WELL DRESSED
Two Victims Describe Thief as
Being Suave and Carrying
Blue Revolver
HIGHWAYMAN WELL DRESSED

Highwaymen were active in this city
late Saturday night and early Sunday
morning, Oscar Rappel, aged rs years,
died at the receiving hospital yester-
day from wounds believed to have been
inflicted with q sandbag by a holdup
man. Two other men reported being
held up and robbed of their money by
a well dressed man carrying a blue re-
Volver. Another man engaged in a
desperate battle with an alleged thief
in which he was wounded, but his al
legged assailant was captured after a
chase by a patrolman.
Rappel, the man who died yesterday,
staggered into a drug store at 400
South Main street early Sunday morn
ing with blood streaming down his face
and fell to the floor with the exclama-
ton that he had been knocked down
and robbed. Persons in the store be-
lieVed that he was suffering from a
fit and his story was at first supposed
to be rawlings. Later, however, he gave
a detailed story, saying that he had
been hit on the head by highway
man in the vicinity of Fourth and Main
streets. On the arrival of the ambu-
lance to take him to the receiving hos
pital he became deirious and fought
the policemen fiercely in an effort to
escape. At the hospital he lapsed into
unconsciousness, from which he never
recovered. He died at o'clock yester-
day morning.
AUTOPSY BEARS OUT STORY
An autopsy made by DR.. George w.
Campbell yesterday seems to bear out
the mans story that he was the victim
of a brutal assault by a footpad. DR..
Campbell found that the mans skull
had been fractured and that the injury
was apparently done either by a sand
bag or a butt of a revolver. An in
vestigation by the police also revealed
the fact that the man had collected a
weeks wages early in the evening and
that only % cents remained in his
pockets when he staggered into the
drug store. The condition of his
clothing also bore out the theory that
he had been attacked and robbed.
The remains were identified by Frank
q. Wilder of 816 West Ninth street,
who said Rappel was an employe in
Hamburger's cafe. Detectives have
been detailed on the case, but no ar
rests have been made.
Robert Shipley, 81 years old, en-
ployed in a grading camp at the end OF
West Forty-eighth street, was treated
at the receiving hospital yesterday for
a knife cut across his head and neck.
said by the police to have been received
at the hands of highwayman early
Yesterday morning. ILSCidIIleiB
Mexican, arrested in the vicinity, Is
held at police headquarters charged
with the crime.
FOOTPAD CARRIES BLUE GUN
o. Rurnwood, 1928 East Twenty
seventh street, reported to the police
yesterday that he was held up Satur-
day night in the Boyle Heights dis
trict by highwayman with blue
gun. Burnwood was halted under an
arc light by a man who covered him
with a revolver and relieved, him of
$25.15. He described the man as young,
smooth shaven and smiling. He was
fashionably dressed, Burnwood said.
e. Nichols, $40 Lookout drive, re-
ported to the police yesterday that he
was held up and robbed at the point Of
Il gun on Bernardo street shortly after
he had alighted from a Garvanza car.
The highwayman took $50 from him
and disappeared in the darkness.
Nichols described his assailant as be-
ing young man, fashionably dressed
and carrying blue revolver.
]. D. Hail. proprietor of an apart
ment house at 1928 South Main street,
reported to the police yesterday that a
thief had entered his room and taken
$40.