Arizona republican., 1917-12-31
ONE HOUR ALL REQUIRED TO
 END CAREER OF BAD MAN,
 SAFE BLOWER AND ASSASSIN

locked safe of the Marshall Cash 1 grocery at Seventh and Van Buren streets, early yesterday morning. and had subsequently, shot James H. Nell | son, better known as 'Bud'' Anderson, l a local wrestler. James Davis sum- | marily paid the penalty when well | directed shot from the gun of Police ] man N. B. Shirk checked the soldier 1 of fortune and professional yegg- man" while he was in the act of talk ing careful aim at Gordon L. Strathy. also a member of the Phoenix police department. The single shot of Shirk was all that was required to end the career of a would be bad man, of whom but little is known, but who is believed to have had a record that would be well worth looking into.
 That Policeman Shirk shot and killed Davis. while in the discharge of his duty" was in substance, the yer dict of the jury who before Coroner Charles De Sales Wheeler yesterday afternoon listened to the testimony of several witnesses called in the inquest into the death of Davis. That the timely action of Shirk probably saved the life of Strathy was also brought out, The body of Davis is held at the undertaking establishment of II. M.
 
 futile efforts to identify the dead man. A report was current during the day that the mother and sister of Davis l lived near Phoenix. but the authori- | ties were unable to confirm this
 In the second edition of The Repub- | llcan yesterday morning appeared a l pretty complete story of the entire af- | fair. At the hour when that edition went to press, the fact that Davis had started his night of crime with the i blowing of the safe in the Marshal; 1 grocery was unknown to t!.e police Shortly before daylight an investiga- tiOn into the cause of the explosion i heard shortly before two shots from the gun of Davis brought the entire police department into action, resulted in the discovery that the Marshall grocery had been entered and the safe blown.
 Entrance had beer effected by i knocking off paddock which admitted the ''yeggman" to the store proper. A skeleton LopeE1i the door in the rear of the store leading into a small room where two safes, one of good size, the other small, were standing. Closing of this door after entering the room, made detection impossible and Davis had full opportunity to knock off
 the combination knob and pour in the nitro glycerine. Affixing of a fuse
 was but the matter of a moment and
 the stage was set.
 The explosion occas stoned by setting
 off the charge was sufficient to at
 tract attention many blocks away, and
 1t was this explosion that brought
 Nelson or Anderson from his home a
 716 East Washington street to inquire
 the cause. Several minutes elapsed
 between the time of the explosion and that when Nelson observed J. B. Her
 lick, an Arizona Eastern engineer com
 ing up Seventh street on d bicycle
 Calling to Herliclt, Nelson inquired il . he had heard the explosion and asked
 if he knew the cause. Herlick said ht
 had heard no explosion.
 While Nelson and Herlick were talk. ing, they observed a dark figure il , the center of vacant lot just nortl ! and east of Seventh and Adam. streets. The man paused for an instan
 and then changing his course slightl,
 attempted to cross Adams street an, make his way between houses at tha point. Nelson accosted the man ant
 asked him what he was doing ther . at that time. He also asked him con corning the explosion.
 An unintelligible murmur greeted tn ; query of Nelson, a flash from a elIl followed and the man quickened hi
 pace across the street Nelson hur II ried after him but the figure disap S peared behind an automobile standin e almost in front of the home of Ere e Warren at Seventh and Adams street: 0 When Nelson had approached to abou g fifteen or eighteen feet, there was U second report of a gun, and Neilso : wheeled and staggered as though abol
 to fall. The murderous assailant the $ disappeared between close by houses. Q In the meantime a little woma $ partly clothed. waited for her husbar $ at 716 East Washington street. MT $ Nelson, after hearing the first sho = ran from her home and to the alley
 the rear. She was just in time to hes the second shot and to see the figul IL of man with gun in his hand hurI u past within a few feet of where sl Il was standing. That he did not s, U her. she is certain, for she believes th '- if he had seen her he would have sh It her, too.
 !" Fearing to go out into the street u III little woman returned to her home al " later when the officers arrived ga, - them information as to the directi, 'e of the fugitive had gone in making h getaway. She was then escorted to tl g Warren home, where her husband WI = cared for until pr. H. K. Beauchan i. had dressed his wounds and made hi 10 as comfortable as possible. The bull |, had entered one leg, passed entire F through the fleshy part in the this
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