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Show The Beater Bent. San Francisco, 19. Last Friday evening, Wm. Hayes, a prominent lawyer of this city, entered the room of the managing editor of the Alta, John McComb, and demanded the retraction re-traction of an article published in the Alta that morning, alluding in a humorous way to Hayes' connection with an investigation of the conduct of a police officer, threatening in case of refusal to Bhoot him. McComb knocked him down, chastised him severely, took away his pistols and took him to tho station house, where the charge of assault with a deadly weapon was entered against him. The aflair Beems likely to prove more serious than at first supposed. Hayes indicates his intention of following up mm tinmg Jicmu, auu a cirong effort will be mado to procure the expulsion of the former frum the bar. The press animadvert severely on Hayes' action, and seem disposed to make it a test case. |