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Show CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Four Days' Criminal ai:d Sensation Record. Thvrv. appears to bo sumething in the atmosphere this spring which urgts people on to tho commissi! of heinous crimes, and the wilful perpetration perpe-tration of inideni"Hinrs. The u-ual number ut spring lights can always he reiml upon, alter the wintvr takty iLs departure, and the warm r..ys of the sun heighten the temperature of the blood and excite the previously chilled tempers of street loafers; but this season has been inauguratul with doublo the ordinary number of lamentable la-mentable occurences, knock down., 1 and street brawls. Salt Lake is nut-1 ting on metropolitan airs which threaten to give it an unenviable reputation as a christian burg; and unless there is a slacking up in the stealing business, agoing slow in the pugilistic profesai.m, less tsiiiciding, and a falling off in the commission of various and sundry criim, tiie outside out-side world will incline to the beli-f that this city does not support a score or mere of Sunday schools aud tills, every Sabbtah, a few dozen christian churches and meeting hou.-es. record of the week. A list and the particulars of the crimes and offenses, committed in this city since the week began. would j "fill a book," and hence, as we have: no book to fill only a partial list and j some of the particulars will be given. Besides. the rninutiasof certain nrimat' that have been committed hero this week are decidedly too interesting for, publication even in tho community ! where they were perpetrated. scsday's suicide. Mrs, Fisher, of the Sixth ward, opened the week's sensations by dosing herself with Btrychnine, aud thus commenced thei irreat hereafter. a suicide. Certain things are told aoout this case of self-destruction, and iU cause, which if true, make it one of horror; but it is or. V of facts that we now speak. The old lady is dead, and doubtless her spirit has flown to a place where it is happierj than was Mrs. Fisher when ehe, swallowed the poison. I Between the time of the suicide aud the uext horror, on Monday ! evening, there occurred a number of : minor offenses, such as chicken stealing, and other petty larcenies, ; and a few head puuehings, but noth- ; ings that would braud the perpetra-! to: s as anything move than pusillani-1 ino'.:s scoundrels. j MONDAY NIGHT'S OUTRAGE. An interesting young woman was the victim of Monday night's outrage. out-rage. She resides in the family of Mr. B. Brown, 7th ward. Mr. and Mrs. B. and the young woman in question retiied to bed at the usual hour, the former in an apartment at one end of the house and the latter at the opposite end. The girl says nho was aroused from her sleep by a noise in the room, and the next moment she was made aware of the presence of a man in the apartment, by his seizing her, and brandishing a knife threaUjningh. The frightened female i made an effort to give the alarm aud call for assistance, but the man-fiend who held her in his paionate gra?p, placed one hand over her mouth, and then by main force, and threatening to kill her if she cried out, consummated consum-mated his hellish dfsign of ravishing the poor girl. The rascal afterwards! fled through the window by which he j hud entered the apartment, and no trace of him has yet been discovered. Who he is will remain a secret unless he exposes himself, which, from the nature of his crime and the popular feeling existing here against such scoundrels, he will not be apt to do. TUESDAY SIGHT'S ATTEMPTED OUT- . BADE. Tuesday passed off without a sensation, unless a couple of Btreet fights in which the only damage done was in the way of putting eyes in in mourning, can be called such. But on Tuesday night it was more good j I fortune than anything else that thwarted a villain in his devilish plan ; of outraging a lady residing in the Eighth ward. The worn n, who is married but whose husband is not at home, was sleeping in a room adj iin-, iug that occupied by her molher.witu whom she conversed for a few mo- ments, and the noise ceasing she again went to sleep. Soon afterwards she was awakened, and instinctively1 grasping at that which had disturbed her slumbers, caught hold of a man's hand which was resting on her person. per-son. She attempted to scream but the unknown ruffian clossd her mouth with his hand, and, like hia fellow scoundrel of tho previous night's outrage, threatened to kill her if she made a noise. The lady, however, how-ever, determined not to submit to the execution of his base purposes, and struggled hard to extricate herself from his foul grasp, and fortunately succeeded in giving an alarm which aroused her mother who instantly came to the rescue, when tho would-be would-be ravisher made his escape. He, also, had gained an entrance to the house by removing a window. WEDNESDAY'S FIGHT. We have heard of ho rape or attempted at-tempted ravishment on Wednesday, or last night, though the city hasn't been canvassed for a few hours, hence it cannot as yet he stated as a fact I that nothing of the kind has occurred oc-curred since the cases reported above. Yesterday's sensation was a desperate despe-rate street fight, during which a pistol pis-tol and knife were exhibited, but the executive qualities of neither, as a destroyer of hum m life, was brought intuute. It appears that a couple of tho city sports "lnul some wonis a day or two since, and one asserts that the other insulted him. Yesterday the two met on the street in front of Carter's cigar store, and the insulted individual demanded an explanation the other's condu. t on the occasion occa-sion referred to. Only a tcv words were spoken when the devotees of f rtur.e commenced belaboring each other with tluir walking cues. Finally tho Mick ot the alleged in-tiil'.i in-tiil'.i r broke m twain, and he broke and ran into a saloon, at the same I imo "feeling all over himself " for a I weapon, h'... antagonist havh.g ai- ready pointed in the direction of tho , fleeing man a leaded six shooter. Al tnia juncture Deputy Marshal Pratt interfered and arrested the warriors and escorted tho insulted to the marshal's office, the othor following behind. At tho office the iormer stepped into the wash-room to get a drink, when the insuller made a drive at him with a hugo knife, but was met hj another blow from the walk- j iu cane which tho assailed held in Wt.rl TI,Q rl-,, m..U..lJ again interfered aud with some difficulty diffi-culty succeeded in quieting the belligerents bel-ligerents before blood was shed. Sub-, sequently the card manipulators were I takeuljefore Com mission er Ivimbill, land waiving an ex imination were held in bonds of $2-30 each to await the action of a grand jury in the ca.'-e. , It was thought on the street that the j Bports would never give it up bo and an excitement craving - public was becoming anxious to see which J would ' 'got the drop" on the other, and huw the affiir would terminate. But. alas, for the seusatiou lovers; toon alter being released on bonds, the parties had arranged their troubles and the smile of peace lighted their countenances. This closes the record of sensation : events for the week up to last night. I What the remaining three days will bring forth time alone can tell. Unless Un-less there is a retrograde movemont in this line a killing or two will occur before the setting of Saturday's sun. |