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Show BILK ULIMAN. j Uo is limlitlly :tml Co:inlly 1 l.t'iitoti liy u " l'ati'ut lutosliiu'H." 1 M ho Ui'postw a Niht iu Hit Jiiitctiou J;iil. l.it ui;ht, lu'twciui Suiul'J u'cKvk, a coinplaiiit was mado boltuo Juslue Middloton by Jusi-pb Ulitnan, ngainil ouo K. Ki'i'tjiuan, who, fur tho past fiw moiUiifl, lias resided in this 1 oitv. Tho complainant ;va in a tor-nblo tor-nblo plight, bleeding proluaoly from several wounds iu tho bead. A war-1 rant was mado out and placed in the hands of Sherilf Brown, who arrested tho defendant about i) o'clock, at his ptaeo on Wall street. Freeman pre-1 tended ho was too sick to be removed, , but Or. J. J, Murphy, when called in, ' did not eoinokla with this statement, deeiiling that there was lushing tin; ' in.Uier with Kree:nanbut an alhu k of nervuusiuss. 1 Lo was iiccordincly locked up for ilie night in (he city jail, no ono being found who was wil i ling to risk anything on his h.u. It appears that l-'roeman, who, we , are told, publishes a "pa ton Unit- side" arrangement in this city, which , ho trios to dignify by the namn of J newspaper, engaged lliiinau :u . traveling agent; that tho accounti be tween llieiu wero not satisfactory U. 1 tlw former, and tho truublo trew outi of tliis di.tagreement. I A'vonhug to the nt.Uement uiade i to us by Blunan, ho w:vs uigen;!y , rtiiuesUd yestorlay by Freeman to go to tho latter's olUco on Wall ; street, to ulk business. Accordingly I lie went lo the otlice, between 7 and ! S o'clock last evening and explained some mailers of ditlerenec br tween them. Blunan, who is a very sm-tll man. was sitting in a chair, smukiug, with a loaded-headed cau lying aern?.s his lap. Freeman, who is tall, ami weighs ft third heavier thau Biitnan, and who inean-whilo inean-whilo had lockea the dixr, seiiOtl this cauo and dealt Blimnu a terrible blow with the loaded cud, just abovo the temple, following it up with repeated blows on the top, side j and back of the head. llliman staggered, bleeding, to one of the eases, and leaned over it, insensible. , Hj was "brought to" bv water thrown j over his fare by Mrs. Freeman, who led him into the back room and l Id i him he had bolter escape by the b.u-k v..y. He got out of the honsv, but , w.is ovf rtakeu by Freeman and : forced back into the room, when ! Freeman seized him by the throat iind demanehd bis waten. Ueh.vi none, but M's. Freeman obt.uiuii : possession of bis pocket-book, ex- , amined it, and rinding no money in it, leturned it. He was then allowed to depart. Freeman, who begun to see the consequences of his brulaiiiy, 1 1 trying to ' "square it" with him on1 1 condition that he would not ounplaiu ; against h;m. Dr. Murphy dressed Mr. Biiman's ' wounds last night and again this ! morning, and had considerable difficulty diffi-culty iu checking the tlow of blood. Sherifl" Brown savs there wis quite a pool of blood iu Freeman's office, and blood s'ains were in the h;ick room when he made the arrest. The cane has been hidden and cannot be " found. Tne case was set before Jutice Middleton to-day at 2 p. m. Mr. Wilkinson of Cuicago deposed to bearing Freeman request B:imau to come lo his office in the evening "or he would have a head put on e him," and to oeoiog Biiman after "the , head was put on him," TUn he ' looked like a "stuck pig." Tne case wa continued, by request of deleud-ant's deleud-ant's attorney, Mr. Margary, till tomorrow to-morrow at 9 a. m. Bail was fixed at Great indignation is excited in town E over this deliberate, cowardly and j brutal assault, tho difference in the physical Dowers of the two men 'e making the attack almost dastard Ij and shameful, Whatever Biiman'-faults Biiman'-faults may be, this was no propel way of correcting them or puuiahin ;8 him, and the whole community crj . shame ! on tne cowardly ruffian wh committed the crime, and call loudlj re for justice upon bis head! Ogdet it Junction, 30th. |