Show HEEUP < AND BE TEN I Robert B Karren a Railroad Man the Victim V HE PUT UP A GOOD FIGHT UP tu NOISE ATTRACTED ATTENTION AND THE THUGS PLED Was Considerably Injured But the Holdups Secured No Booty Sharpers Work the Slot Machines Jake Floan Again Arrested Police Notes Last night about 8 oclock Robert B Karren a brakeman on the Salt Lake Los Angeles railroad was held up by two men and badly beaten I seems that Karren who resides at 143 North Sixth West street was on his way home and had reached a point near the Oregon Ore-gon Short Line depot when he noticed two men coming toward him He paid no attention to them until they passe him and he was suddenly seized from behind and told to throw up his hands Karren was not so disposed and refused re-fused emphasizing his refusal by striking strik-ing one of the men in the face Then ensued a fight that boded ill for some member of the contest Karren I was knocked down by a blow in the i head but he pluckily kept up the fight and the three rolled about the ground in the mud The fight did not last long for the noise of the conflict attracted at-tracted the attention of some people in the vicinity who ran to the place to see what was going on The holdups fearing capture ceased their attempts to conquer the plucky Karren and made their escape Karren was in a bad fix when the men reached him so he was carried into a saloon near the place and Dr Beer was summoned to dress his wounds He had a bad cut on the left cheekbone cheek-bone which was nearly three inches in length and cut to the bone There ere was also another cut just over the left eye which needed several stitches to hold it together and a third cut was In the scalp at the back of his head Kar ren was covered wiUfejMud from head to fot and the blooa lad flowed profusely pro-fusely from his wounds over his face and clothing His clothing was torn in several places during the struggle but not a thing was missing He had no money with him and the watch he wore was not taken He had a desperate struggle strug-gle and it was a wonder that he came out of it as lucky as he did He was not able to get a good look at the faces of the men for both wore their hats well down over their eyes and the excitement ex-citement of the combat and the dark ctement ness prevented his getting a good look at their faces After his wounds were dressed he was sent home in a carriage car-riage < S > < S > < 5 > Jake Floan was arrested yesterday on a charg of drunkenness and petit larceny lar-ceny I is alleged that Floan committed commit-ted a theft of an umbrella from Mr Metcalf o < i > 0 James Murphy charged with the theft of a mackintosh from in front of Gold bergs store on East Second South street was arraigned in police court yesterday for petit larceny He was found 15 guilty of the charge and fined 15A 0 A woman of the town known as Cecil was arrested early yesterday morning on the charges of drunkenness and refusing re-fusing to pay for a hack which she used She put up 5 for her appearance appear-ance but did not show up at the forfeited proper time and the bail was declared 0 There has been several complaints made about the working of slot machines ma-chines by some unknown sharpers thought to be boys They have been using counterfeit nickles to drop into the slot machines and number of these coins have been turned over to the police 0 0 G Mrs Goss notified the police that she lost a gold watch and chain on the street last night nighto o 1 Elmer Wilson was tried and found guilty of vagrancy yesterday and was I sentence to serve 30 days in the city jail jai I 0 0 Old Peter Poulsen walked into the I police station last evening and announced an-nounced that he was going to enlist In the Utah volunteers today Peter was r elated over the prospects of getting 513 a month and a suit of clothes and said that he had decided to leave his wife Susan Tulltipe Poulsen here to lookout I look-out for herself At present she is in I the city jail I |