Salt Lake Herald | 1908-03-31 | Page 10 | Uses Monkey Wrench in Effort to Collect

GO USES KEY MOKEY WRENCH IN EFFORT TO COLLECT T Gonzales waiter walter in a Commercial street restaurant was in the police court yesterday afternoon charged with beat beatIng beatIng beating Ing L C Epperson upon the head with witha a monkey wrench Epperson stated that he called for A plate of ot chile and handed banded Gonzales Gonzalos a 30 iI cent piece to pay for the dish in ad advance a advance 1 vance Gonzales he said returned him 30 cents As chile sells at 10 cents a dish In Commercial street Epperson informed Gonzales that he was entitled to 40 0 cents in change instead of ot 30 0 cents Hard words were used and Gonzales drove droe from the him down In Inthe Inthe inthe the street and striking him three times I with the monkey wrench I Policemen Gillespie and Bets Betl testified that they had bad seen Gonzales strike Ep person Gonzales said that Epperson had eat eaten eaten eaten en a dish of chile without paying for it Having filled himself Epperson remark remarked ed that the clile was not satisfactory and that as he was a pure food tor he would arrest the waiter Gonzales said that he demanded the 10 cents first and was willing to talk about being ar arrested arrested arrested rested afterwards after ards After a long tion Lion Gonzales said Epperson ran out of the restaurant The waiter walter pursued not to strike Epperson but to collect the 10 cents Judge Diehl will ill decide the case today toda