New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Mortally Shot
AfterW oundine
Bandit in Duel
With Seven Bullets i'm His
Body, Newark Negro Gives
Battle and Saves Garage
Containing Fifty Cars
Intruder Leaves Trail
Woman Bystander Acciden.
tally Shot With Gun
Dropped by the Thieves

With seven bullet wounds in his body
and head, Samuel Cook, Of 766 North
Sixth Street. Newark. n. j.. continued
70 fight pistol duel with Two bandits
who entered the garage owned by his
fatAey, George Cook &. 4o3 Lille
Street, Newark, early yesterday, ticing
his weapon unt;l It was empty and
wounding ono Of She Invaders both Of,
whom escaped Cook 4. believed to be
dying at the Newark City Hospital.
Ten minutea after Cook was adj
mitted, Mrs, Mary Tresome, Of 50
Seventeenth avenue, was admitted to
the same hospital suffering from
bullet wound in her right arm. Albert
Tresome, fourteen years old, of che
above address. had found near his
home an automatic pistol thrown away
by one of the bandits who shot Cook,
Henry Lippe, brother in-law of the
boy, broke the weapon and removed
the shells. Thinking it empty. he
pulled the trigger and a cartridge
which had been in the barrel exploded
Mrs. Tresome, his mother-in-law fell
" tlIS lOol WOu1lueQ.
Aroused from SIeep
Cook, who is colored, was asleep in
the once OF the garage when he heard
a knock on the door about lao . m
and the voices of two men demanding
admission Cook answered that he
was through business for the dav but
the visitors insisted on being furnished
With gasoline. When the garage keeper
opened the door to talk to them thew
forced their way in. The men covered
COOK with automatics and ordered him
10 throw up his hands. Instead of
complying he rushed for his revolver
and the bandits opened fire just as h6
reached it. The first shot fired bv the
two robbers struck Cook in the head
and he fell, firing at the same time,
Lying on the floor in darkness he cred
nVe more shots, one of the invaders
beng wounded as evidenced by a trail
OF blood outside the place.
"hen the shooting began the robbers
.r'ed TO retreat, but the garage door
iiao swung TO with patent spring
iatch that defied them. One of them
Alcked glass panel out of the door
ahd crawled through it, dragging his
IGuhueo companion after him. During
snl' Proceoure Cook, mortaly wounded.
hred In the dark until his revolver wa
empty. The police found six hul,af
holes surrounding the broken class
panel, showing that Cooks aim had
been fairly true.
Dying in Hospital
Inc wounded lad crawled out of the
garage into doorway nearby at A9
Lime Street, where he was found bv
Snaries dn Z. Rapp, salesman, living at
28S Eighteenth Avenue, who had al
ready summoned Patrolman Busch of
the Fourth Precinct station. He was
removed to the Newark CITY HosnitaI
where his recovery is declared im-
possible. i''i-
Ihe first bullet that struck Young
1ook entered his skull just over the
1lght rg eye and passed through the head,
hra o second bullet lodged in his left
breast over the heart. Two bnIiets
We're removed from the wounded pan,s
mead by the surgeons, two from his
rlght arm, two from his left arm and
one from his left hand. '''0
~ my expensive cars were stored in |!
1ne it COOK garage at the time the ban
Gus entered, and it is believed that
tney had planned to steal one or rnorc
81 of mem. investigation in the garage
- - iiSht ieNealeQ i've steel |
jacketed bullets, four .32-caliber lasd
6ulless and several empty shells. After
COOK had fired all the shots in his 20.
Voiver he struggled in his wounded |
state to reload from "a box of cart cart |
ridges near at hand. va
Whlle being taken to the hospita,
Iook told the policemen he knew he
had MT one of the thieves because he
TI hGard the man shout to his companion
hes got me, Bill"
Tells of Pistol Duel
Cook revived at the hospital after bis
operation and told of the shooting, He |
declared that but for the darkness he
would have killed both his assailants
as ne Is good shot. He fired Mt thn
noise of breaking glass, but was IS IN. uiao
ahie to see anything on account Of the
plood streaming into his eye from two /
mead wounds WV
\, general alarm was sent out bv tho
Newark police, who believe that The
bandits will be captured, as it G is
thought that one of them is severelv |
wounded. 'N'eAeiy
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