In order to cut off their escape, one officer went down one street and one the other.

The first officer, whose name was Ryan, found the two men at the gateway of the side entrance of the house, and hailed to know what they were doing.

Without answering, they turned and ran toward Prospect Avenue, with Ryan in close pursuit.
After running about one hundred feet, one of them turned and fired three shots at Ryan, but failed to hit him.

The two then separated, and the man who had done the shooting escaped.

The other man, whose name proved to be O'Connor, again took to his heels, with Ryan still after him; they turned the corner and met the other officer, whose name was Reid, running as hard as he could toward the shooting.