Arizona republican., 1910-06-25
DARING THIEF MET H|S MATCH HoPnIng Wins in Wild Fight
 With a Burglar HE IS STILL AT LARGE

Severe Scalp Wounds and
 the Thief Leaves a Trail
 of Blood Behind Him. In a desperate daylight fight ycster- day morning between a determined and vicious burglar and D. D. Horn ing, superintendent of the Pan Amer
 ican ostrich company, the burglar was
 shot probably in his left side, and
 Horning vas severely cut about the
 head a number of times by a heavy
 iron bar carried as a jimmy and also
 as a weapon by the burglar. Although
 wounded and followed by a number of
 men the thief made his escape.
 A wonderfully stubborn fight was
 put up by Horning who was una:med
 when he first attacked the thief: and
 a desperate resistance was shown by
 the thief who did the best he could to
 dash out Mornings brains or render
 him unconscious. Horning is over
 sixty years of age but is powerfully
 built Had the burglar been unarmed
 he would undoubtedly have mastered him.
 At ten o'clock yesterday morning Horning was seated in the library of his home at the corner of Monroe and Fourth avenue. He was reading The Republican" he stated, when he heard several suspicious sounds on the rear sleeping pOrtch. At first he attributed the noises to the cat and kittens which he has. He thought they were playing pranks on the porch. Then he happened to notice that the cats were in the library and so he went out partly with a faint curiosity in regard to the sounds but chiefly to get drink of water in the kitchen.
 He laid the paper down and walked to the kitchen at the rear of the house adjoining the screen porch.
 There were people on the streets walking past the windows The morn ing huckster was crying his wares half way dovin the block Two children were playing with a teddy bear over on the church steps. The day in all respects was just like any other day and an after breakfast burglar was the last thought imaginable. The sur was shining brightly through the dining room windows when HOrning went through on his way to the kit chen. The kitchen was rather dark for the window in it was shaded by the screen porch.
 Coming out of the brighter room into a darker one Horning did not at first see the form of a stockily built l man crouching on the kitchen table. | This man, with whom he was to be- | gin a terrific battle for life before the | kitchen clock had ticked off another | three seconds, crouched silent and | still, his keen eyes watching every | move of Mornings and his right hand | grasping the weapon with which he | to drop this man insensible | to the floor the moment he turned his | head
 Horning walked leisurely toward | the sink. To do this he had to cross the floor directly in front and within reach of the powerful arm that held the bar-a piece of steele a foot long and curved like the wheel of a freight ear. It was the key that locks a brake shoe to the wheel and made T most excellent jimmy on account of the curve in 1t and a fearful weapon in a hand to hand encounter. Horning was in the middle of the floor, directly beneath the crouching man on the able, when an instinctive movement If the shadow against the window caused him to look up.
 The kitchen table was close up against the only window in the kit chen. This window leads to a screen porch. The door to the porch was ocked and the thief gained entrance oy sitting the screen and reaching in- side to lift the hook Then he raised he window to the kitchen ana drew lis body through onto the table That vas as far as he got when a powerful nan wearing gold trimmed eye glasses, lis dark beard streaked with gray, slowly entered the room. The thief on he table knew at once that he was not seen on account of the dimness of he light; he knew also that in all his criminal career he had never before made such an awful mistake as he lad this time. In his positive certain y that there was no one Tn the house le had neglected to arrange his get way" To prevent intrusion from the ear, Interruption from the ice man or he grocer boy while he was footing he house, he had locked the screen loor behind him. Had he left the door unlocked he would have escaped with ! whole skin. The fact that he had ocked the door behind him, and in would hardly be able to pack out of the open window, unlock he door and get through it before the nan before him would pin him to the loor. must have come over him and de- ermined him on the desperate eNpe- lient of braining the man-cOmmit- ]