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 threatening talk ensued on both sides and K advanced, the officer still commanding him to drop his gun as he was under arrest. K, in turn, demanded that the chief should drop his rifle, holding him covered fair all the time. The Chief then called for his men to fire. Patrolman Wm. M fired on K with his rifle, and Kdropped. He did not die immediately, and was taken to the hospital in Morris that night. The patrolman's bullet passed through his left shoulder, cut through the lung, and lodged near the heart. K refused to talk. His companion talked more freely, and said that K was bad and had had a shooting difficulty in West Virginia. They had both been in confinement, and had escaped with the intention of going back to West Virginia. He said that K "was the best shot in the regiment, and was a 'killer.'" That the A. P. L. Chief was not himself killed is nothing less than a marvel.