Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-07-13 | Page 6 | Saved Spouse from Sure Death by Wielding Big Butcher Knife

Saved Spouse From Sure Death By Wielding Big Butcher Knife Special to The Tho Ogden July Tuly 12 Ingeniously ex ox explaining that he was wa attempting to save nave his hia wife life rather than do doher dob dohe her b he r harm when hen he was teas arrested Sat Saturday Saturday night charged with assault aal I William Nixon an aged police court v veteran teran Zed fitted frU d Judge J t D Murphy Murph this I morning and escaped with a mere floater with a doy suspended sea sen sentence tence tenee attached Nixon graphically explained to the court that Mrs Nixon was about to devour a ean oan of ot fermented sardines and that he h rushed upon her with butcher knife In hand band to prevent her tier from poi herself He had Just used thu knife to cut some bread he said and und meddling me neighbors mistaking his mo motives tives Uv i had called the police Mrs Irs Nixon herself a police court I character with a penchant for foE booze bore various and sundry marks markn and bruises which hardly tallied vr th her husbands explanation but she stayed bravely by b his story On their ther claim that they knew of a they could get pet work vork away from the allure allurements allurement allurements ments ment of or the th city Judge Murphy aT al allowed lowed lowell the aged aced couple their freedom