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Show HE RETELEDIN BLOOD. The Ghastly and Hjitertooi Spectacle that Made its Appearance Under the Gaslight, CAPTAIN LAN3E TAKES CHAE3E, And IMcs an Unraecesful Attempt to Solve tho Qutttiou of iLrvkr or 8aicido. i Captain Lange was presented with a Moody enigma about 8 o'rloek last night' when he walked up against an unknown party from anortticetn whose neck the life fluid was belching In pints. Whence he came no one of the hundred or more spectator who had Kathered seemed to know, and the victim vic-tim himself stubbornly refused to tell. There was no time to debate In the face of death, however, snd layingbold ' of him the captain took him to Dr.' Benedict's otllee at the corner of First South and Main, where eight stitches were taken In the wouud. "It's a problem," remarked tbe captain, cap-tain, "lint I can't for the life of me , solve. It either marks an attempt to I'uinmll igurder or on the other hand was an unsuccessful effort at suicide, and I'm going to determine which If I lakes all winter." And with this resolution he proceeded to march the crimson-fringed mystery to the police station. The bluff was fruitless, however, for the fellow was ss stubborn on the threshold of the prison as he had been upon the street, and no amount of p"i wure could persuade per-suade h.m to speak. The popular theory at hcudijnarti'H was that the victim, who was about as Intelligent as -.. . . ..I a..,!,,! In tit hfttart nf the American desert, bad received the cut lu sn altercation that had taken place up stall In one of the chamber of chance, although there was not a light to be seen or aselntlMa of proof to be had. "I propose tj keep you here until von give tip this thin," snld Captain Langs ss he gave ttie thumb screw another whirl, but his captive never flinched and was llnally Mrnld. "That duck has Jut uIkiuI done that himself," volunteered one ol the otU-cers. otU-cers. "What, sim-mV was the eseUraa-tory eseUraa-tory rejoinder. 'precisely. I(e came here with money and a girl. He lojt both He might have HMltied th first shock, but the lots of the skirurrd him and my opinion Is lht ho Inflicted the cut himself, It's the ssme old story, though. He failed, and to protect hiiu.r .... self from ridicule la keeping his moutn shut." t I he wound that extends serosa the surfai ootthejiiglarlsa very ugly one and tn I it lit have culminated In death but for the services of tlie surgeon. The victim bus disappeared and the Incident still slumbers on the slate at the police station as a mystery. t A sulmciiuerit Investigation by a TIM ft reporter shows the case lit hate bn a deliberate attempt rn the part of one man to behead another. Holh were linemen ss that position Is known lo , the world of telegraphy. They had worked In St. Imls together where some bitter If not latal feud hd been engendered. John Hrown wasone and James Mauley wns another. Yesterday both were drinking sod met In a Main Street S-lloon between First and Necond Houth about H o'clock. This we the signal for hostilities but friends Inter-ceded Inter-ceded and the tragedy was deferred. . Mauley was miring his animosity at one end of the bar while at tb other Hrown was In custody of friend. At this point all of the eye-witnesses " to have disappeared In tho b)Wj,S of some mysterious eavrrn. !s one of tlx-m appeared lo know what occurred They don't waul to. Jimmy Jtvley a loitering and des-s des-s date hal.itun ut the saloon who ws present at the nguenry interview s-iys the occurrence is a blank lo him. Possibly il wtu, A cork In a demijohn is not presumed lo have drawn anything any-thing morn thnn an Intellectual blank In ibis life. Hv an adroit use of the cork screw however it was arertaioel that Marilev, without warning. drw the blade aud with one Iterce charge wi-pt it over his victim s neck after which he siruck the svenue leading to the ajley between Commercial and Main atresia and disappeared in the darkness, Hrown then made his bloody aonearatiee on he thoroughfare, met CaptalnUr.ee and was suhaeiuenttr given Ihe attention of a physician He is now lu a hospital and Ihe possibiti-of possibiti-of death U not so remote a lo render ren-der his condition free from slarin. In tbe meantime Msnley is at large and the wlteee to the murdrroos assault as-sault are ss mum s the sumn.er cloud. |