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Show MAY DESFE&URE A BOH FACE Applying shoe-blacking to tbe face, rather than the oboe may be tbe cause of considerable trouble to Carl ! Ford and Richard Harbertson. In order or-der to oust a young man from tho Munsey store on Twenty-fifth street and Hudson avenue Saturday niaht. the two men daubed his face with 6hoe-bIacklng. They were arrested for the offense and It may be that quite serious charged will be preferred against them. The victim is a son of Peter Shupe, who resides at 722 Twenty-sixth street, and their arrest was made on a warrant sworn out by the father of the boy last Saturday evening I Ford is 21 years of age and Is ecu-j ecu-j ployed as a shoe shiner at the Mun-I Mun-I sey store. Harbertson Is also 21 ar6 old. .When they could not in-1 in-1 duce the Shupe boy to leave the place i one of the young men i.nder arrest held him while tho other daubed his face with a black solution used for cleaning shoes. It has now developed that the solution solu-tion was composed of an acid and wcx.id alcohol, which blistered the hoy's face and continued to eat Into the fllesh until an antidote was applied. ap-plied. It is now feared that the boy's face has been permanently disfigured, dis-figured, and Ford and Harbertson will be held pending the result of the boy's injuries. |