Six Shot in Cleveland Fight

POLICE AND BANDITS ENGAGE IN RUNNING DAYLIGHT BATTLE

Shootings Follow Attempt to Hold Up Diamond Merchant in Downtown District - Woman and Two Other Victims On Danger List

CLEVELAND, Oct. 8 (AP)—Six persons were shot, three of them perhaps fatally, in a downtown running gun fight between police and two bandits today following a frustrated attempt to hold up a diamond merchant.

Those shot were:
Herbert Quinlan, jeweler, reported near death from a bullet wound in the abdomen.
Patrolman Fred Blazier, shot In the right side, also reported near death.
Mrs. Florence Martin, shot in the head three times, condition critical.
Two unidentified bandits.

Quinlan was shot in tho side by one of the two robbers when his father,Edmond S. Quinlan, diamond broker, jumped at the holdup men shouting: You dirty dogs." Tho elder Quinlan was struck over the head with the butt of a gun and the robbers fled.

A desperate gun fight with police ensued when the robbers, fleeing from the scene, commandeered an automobile in which Mrs. Martin and her daughter were seated.

Patrolman Blasier was shot as he attempted to stop the bandits from commandeering the car, which was in a parking lot.

Detectives Roy Heisley and Thomas Osborne, who had been called to the scene, gave chase in another machine. The two cars raced and zig-zagged through traffic on Euclid avenue, the robbers shooting all the time. The detectives returned the fire and the cars roared down the street, with pedestrians ducking for shelter.

At East 73rd street, Mrs. Martin, who apparently had been driving with one of the bandit's guns pressed against her head, was wounded and her car careened against the curb, throwing her daughter into the street.

The capture of the bandits followed. The police said they had fired 86 shots in all at the fleeing car and 26 of them struck, riddling the rear of, Mrs. Martin's machine.

Heisley did not realize he was wounded until he helped take the women to a hospital. He was not seriously hurt.

Blood transfusions were asked for Blazier and Herbert Quinlan.