A Desperado Slain By A Woman

Dave Baggio, jv notorious Chicago thief and desperado, was recently shot by a woinan whose premises he had invaded. Mrs. Mitchell, the name of the woman who gave the villain his quietus. related to a reporter the circumstances of the affair : She said it was about 8 o'clock, or a little past, on Saturday nighb, that she oame off Wabash avenue, along Ilarrison street, to her apartments. When on the Jatter thoronghfare she S happened to glanoe up at the window of I her sitting room, which frouted on the street, and noticed that tho gas, which she had left burning there, was turned out, or down very low. She did not take much notice of it, thinking that her servant was there and had attendedto it. She went around on State street, and prooeeding up stairs walked straight into her bedroom, and facing the look: iug-giass proceeded to take off her fur cloak. The sitting-room was on her ; right hand as she stood in this position, ■ and the front of the bed on her leit, ' while the door she entered by was direct ly behind her. Before she had time to [ get her cloak ofl' a slight sound caused ! her to glahce towards the darkened sitting-room, and she then notieed a man ! close to her and another in the shadow. The near one immediately struck her on the arm or shoulder, and she, simultoneously retreating to save herself, feil on the side of the bed on i her left side. Witb her leit hand sbe ; drew the revolver from her pocket, and ; quickly changing it to the other hand I fired it at the man nearest her. This is the shot she thinks that told, if any did, i for the m n threw up his arms and tiien ! contraeted them, saying, " O, Ood I" and tho two of them started out. Btte regained her feet, havtng iirst üred in a kneeliug attitude, as she had been pushed, or had fallen, and fired again, this time pursuing them, and fired a third shot down the stairs at them, which broke the glass in the stairway door.