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Show SPANIARD STUBBED III SALT LAKE CITY Salt hake. July 1 "Villa. Villa! Viva Carranza!" shouted Manuel Re-mires, Re-mires, a Mexican. 30 year- of age. last night after he was arrested on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon upon Antonio Reich, a Spaniard. Span-iard. Lying on a rot i" the county hos-mtal. hos-mtal. the victim of the attack ac eased the Mexican of delivering the knife thrust that will probably cost the Spaniard bis life The wound Is In the man's left side and the blade penetrated the abdominal cavity. Reich was weak from the loss of blood, but between moments of weak ncss he three times declared Re-mires Re-mires to be the man who stabbed him in a quarrel in a chill parlor at First South and West Temple streets last night When asked his correct name. Reich signed It on a piece of paper in a haky hand He said that he realized he was probably going go-ing to die and that he realized the seriousness of the charge he was making against the Mexican. Nothing definite as to the cause of the quarrel could be learned last night by the police. Neither could any eyewitnesses to the stabbing be found, willing to tell of it Immediately Imme-diately after he was stabbed the Spaniard ran across the street to a saloon and from there a call was telephoned to police headquarters. The wounded man was taken to the emergency hospital and attended by Dr S. G. Paul, city health commissioner, commis-sioner, and afterward removed to the county hospital. His chance for recovery is regarded as slight. Reich wss positive in his identlti-cation identlti-cation of the Mexican, looking the man directly In the eyes and pointing point-ing his finger at him as he accused him. He waB equally positive in exonerating other Mexicans taken be fore him by the police while he was till In the operating room at the rmergency hospital. According to the Spaniard, he had known the man he accuses of stabbing him but two days. Ramires was loud in his protestations pro-testations that he was not the man. He said that he had been living In the United States for the past nlno years, most of the time In California, and that he had been employed for the past two weeks as a laborer on the new Orem suburban road. It was while he was being taken back to the city jail after the visit to the county hospital for identifies lion that the Mexican gave vent to his patriotic expressions and cheered for the leaders of the constitutional' i6ts, but when asked If the trouble had been over the war problems of his native county he persisted In denying de-nying that he had been In any trouble trou-ble or that he had stabbed the Span-lard. |