Show BRAUNS CONDITION There Is No Doubt but That He Was Assaulted No Such Wounds Could Have Been Received by Falling Into an Excavation The Police in Hoi Pursuit James Braun who was beaten robbed and thrown into a cellar on Friday evening even-ing last is still urn precarious condition Ho was somewhat improved yesterday but it will take some time before the twenty five stitches put in by Dr Parkinson can be removed and it may be several weeks before Braun is again presentable in society so-ciety An evening sheet and a relic of bygone days in tbe shape of an alleged newspaper having flown to the defense of the police in this matter who claimed that Braun was not assaulted but had merely fallen into the excavation while in a drunken condition con-dition a HeRALD reporter last evening interviewed I in-terviewed Dr Parkinson on the matter There is one thing certain said the doctor the wounds of Braun were never made by falling into the cellar There is not a physician in the city whowill say tbat such a thing was possible because the wounds were not found where we aiwaytt look for them in case of a fall There is no doubt but that the man was assaulted and beaten the character of the wounds proves this Some of his injuries however might have ouen received by being thrown into the cellar Yes That is possible of course but not by a mere fall Why he would have bad to take at least a dozen falls t receive the wounds in which I was compelled to use the needle Had Braun been drinking I is more than probable that ho had in feet 1 am almost sure of i but that would cut no figure That ho was assaulted saulted beaten and thrown into the cellar there cannot be the slightest doubt |