TEH MAN FROM ARIZONA.

Taihape Daily Times, 19 June 1919, Page 6

TEH MAN FROM ARIZONA.

DEALS WITH CHINESE OUTLAW. V . Fairly full details have been published concerning the Chinaman WllO ran amok at Sydney recently, and kept: the police of the city’ at ha?’ 130? 14 hours and surviving efforts made to shoot him, to suffocate him by the use of poison gas, to ‘burn his shelter down, and batter it in by Dowerful jets from fire hoses_ The man Who was responsible for the dramatic finish of the exciting incident due recently arrived in Sydney from Arizona. The closing incidents are thus described by the Sydney Tclegraph:—— ENTER RYAN, OF ARIZONA. ' About half-past, nine entered upon the scene Albert, H. Ryan, an American citizen from Arizona. He had seen l service with the American Army, and J was living at 11 Ocean Street, Woolahra. He forced his way to Inspector ‘Walker, who was in charge of the police operations, and demanded _a gun. The inspector Warned him of the danger he was running. . l “That’s all right,” said the man, from Texas. “I’ln good with a gun_’* To show that. he meant it, without Waiting for a revolver, he rushed from the gate on the other side of la,ne‘and ' reached the window of the shanty. There he crouched below the window While the police covered the wiill‘;o\vs with their revolvers. “You see” he called back triuln—_; phantly. “I’m here_ Give me a, gun, I and I’ll do for himl’«_’ 1

Detective-Sergeant Leary and ‘Sergeant Smith rushed up to the American, and Smith gave him his revolver. Stirling and others followed, and then, things happened_ Ryan leaped through the window, and as he came down inside the building, through the broken walls of which the sunlight shone, he instinctively ducked almost flat on the floor. The Chinese, who was hidden behind a :box at the other side of the :room——evidently he had been guarding the wrong window—fired ‘five shots at his assailant and missed, the shots going over Ryan, and just missing the police oificers, ,who had insl.‘3lf.=_”~j""'l‘ol- - Then the man from Arizona, who was good with guns, fired, getting the Chinese in the face. He crumpled up. the blood flowing from his throat and ear. When they bent. over the Chinese he was not dead, though unconscious. 1-Ira crumpled up, the blood flowing from his throat and ear. When they bent over the Chinese he was not dead, though unconscious_ He said a few words in Chinese. On the way to the hospital he expired. » »“A decent-looking sort. of chap.” said an eye-Witness, “Looked welldressed, with his gold watch and chain.” An automatic and another revolver ‘Were found beside the body, with :1 quantity of ammunition.