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Show Assaults. Mr. Joseph McMurrin, of tbe 8th ward, ie sail to have been assaulter! on Saturday nigat, about 9 o'clock Leaving fquirea' barber Bhop on bie way home, be had not reached tLe Bank corner before he waB Btruck in the face by BOme unknown person, and a gash cut on the fiJe of bis ncse, irom which the blood OVjed freely ; he waa aUo BCra'.ched ou the forehead. Tue blow 'elunntd him, but he did not I--I. Upon recovering he wss unable to discover where bia assailant waj or in I wbal direction he bad fled. He thinks the icetrumen' with which he was hit wes a bjttle, and io unable to give any description of the person who assaulted him. A week ago las'. Saturday night, a Hmilar affair is aaid to have occurred, in the lower part of the city, in which a gentleman was aseau!t(d and bruistd about the head, by parties unknown un-known to bitn, ai:d of whom be can tfive uo description. In tb is latter case the victim kept toe matter quiet in the hope of discovering bis assailants. assail-ants. What is singular ubout both a flairs is t'jbt no attempt appears to have beeu made to rob those assaulter1! and the inference is that the attack was caused by private vindiotivenea, and this means taken to satisfy a cowardly desire to get eveu. It is possible that in one or both cases the parties assaulted were mistaken for ethers, but this ia by no means probable. |
