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Show Hangingtoo Good A Dastardly Act at Chester Utah I 31 rs. F. It.Caiidland, assaulted assault-ed and robbed By a tramp. A man arrested on suspicion City Marshal Snow of Manti, arrested ar-rested a man on the morning of the 14th. at Manti on suspicion of being guilty of the outrage committed upon up-on the person of Mrs. Candland, Deputy Clawson took a good look at the man Reese, (that is what he says his name is) at Ephraim and accompanied Mr. Snow to Chester to see if Mrs. Candland could be seen and if she could identify the man Reese. The lady is ve.y nervous ner-vous but consented to see the man and did so, but immediatela exhon-rated exhon-rated Mr. Reese and said it was a much larger man with larger hands and his right hand considerably scratched. Officers and citizens art balled aad at a loss to know how this deed could be committed in open daylight and the country arose in less than 2 hours men were out on horseback all over in the vicinity and not the slightest trace can be found of the person that committed this terrible deed. An account of the outrage from Mrs. Candland to Deputy Marshal C !ima, given on the 14th. inst Iheard a very gentle kaock at the door, I thought it was a little girl that was in the habit of knocking that way that came in to gel milk, I said come in when the door opened open-ed and a man walked in with a mask on his face that looked like an old Ciunoisack with holes cut for his eye,. eiogthe -an I - thought at first at was one of the boyi in the ., , neighborhood that wanted to play a joke and scare me I told him to take the mask off and not to scare me in that manner. The man approached ap-proached me and grabbed my hands and demanded money I told him I had no money, well give me the key to that trunk, it is not locked was the reply, then he violently threw me to the floor and indicated that he wanted to disgrace my person I fought hitn desperately and succeeded succeed-ed in scratching one of his hands the right particularly bleed a good deal, then he knocked me down by striking me and jumped on my .stomach aad abdomen in such a violent manner that caused me to ex pell the factitious that was within me he grabbed it and held it up before me, I exclaimed Oh! my . God see what you have done, he said something some-thing in a mumbling voice that I thought sounded like I don't care G. D. what I have done, in the mean time I was rendered unconscious from the drug that he had been rubbing my face with and the terrible agony and pain caused by his treat ment I knew no more until after Mrs Burdick found me on the floor welt-ring welt-ring in blood caused from the wounds received from that horrible man. Mrs. Candland arms and neck is very badly scratched. The prints of large finger nails are plain to be seen and will be for some time, Dr. "Wright is attending to Mrs. Cand-land's Cand-land's case and thinks she will recover. |