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Show Assaulted a Prisoner. While tho city prisoners were at work near the warm springs, Gustave Eek-nuiii, Eek-nuiii, one of their number, made a dash for liberty. Ho ran for some distance, when he was caught by some men. Barnard Bar-nard McUill, a guard, then eamo up and, it is said, made a brutal aud tin-1 tin-1 warranted assault upon the prisoner, striking him over the head with his club, in Hiding wounds which for a time ' it was feared would prove fatal. Eck-1 Eck-1 man was taken to the county jail, where his head was dressed. The prisoner was given six months on Monday iu police court for stealing a valise. |