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Show HAYNES COURT. The Brutal Assailant of James McLaren and Wife Before Commissioner Commis-sioner Pratt. A CHANGE OF VENUE GBANTSD Mrs. McLaren Carries the Evidences of a Fiendish Beating on Limb and Body, Fred Haynes who is charged with the attempted murder of James S. McLaren one of the patriarchal denizens of the Jordan's banks and his wife was taken beforj United States Commissioner Pratt this morning. . In the meantime Sheriff Bert and Marshal Young had driven to the scene of the atrocity and came in with a troop of wjtnesses who filed into the commissioner's chamber. In a chair alongside the bench was Mrs. McLaren who supported an infant of two months in her arms. Her face was badly discolored and betrayed all the signs of the brutal beating that had been inflicted by the defendant. 'Her left eye was black as a raven's wing, Upon her head was a ohapter of gbas 1 cuts and abrasions which the physician in attendance stated that her body was filled with evidences of the fiendish beating. Her husband had escaped es-caped with fewer wounds, although a bad cut presents itself on the nose, together to-gether with several on the head. He has sustained misfortunes that deprived him of one leg, and in an attack, such as Haynes is charged with, would scarcely be able to defend himself. The defendant is a well knittod specimen of the genus bruiser, and doubtless experienced ex-perienced little difficulty in disposing of a woman and a cripplo husband.- He ought to be proud of himself. The parties to the trial having all appeared, the examination was about to proceed, when counsel for defense offered an affidavit setting forth that the commissioner com-missioner was prejudiced and asking for a change of venue. . This was a revelation to Commissioner Pratt who had not yet inquired into. the merits of the case, but the affidavit having been made in the regular way the case was sent to Judge Wolcott and the bonds of the defendant fixed at $500. it was also suggested that the prisoner pris-oner desired lime in which to recruit his imaginary witnesses, at which declaration de-claration Mr. McLaren hobbled to his feet and denied that Haynes had any witnesses-they were all for the prosecution. prose-cution. "Yes," coniinued the indignant husband, hus-band, "and I want you to put a charge of highway robbery into the complaint. He took my wifo's pocket book containing contain-ing $43. - . ..... This was the flashing of another sensational, sen-sational, phase, and Hayne's prospects for a term in the penitentiary are exceedingly ex-ceedingly promising. In an interview with a Times representative, McLaren said the defendant's animosity was occasioned oc-casioned by a land transaction which will be Introduced to show the animus of the assault. ' |