Show OGDEN DEPARTMENT SERIOUS STABBING AFFRAYS AFFRAY-S T Brown Uses a Knife on Aaron RossA Saloon Brawl Aaron Ross was seriously stabbed in I Electric avenue about 3 oclock yesterday yester-day morning by S F Brown and Is in a serious condition James Roardon was also gashed by Brown Tho affair is purely n saloon brawl with a woman aa the cause Brown Is now n prisoner at the city Jail where ho was formerly u guard Ho says he overheard some men In a wlneroom abusing a woman that ho attempted to aid her and they jumped onto him and beat him Ross tells tho far more plausible story and the one generally believed by tho police ITo says ho was passing along tho street when no saw Reardon Brown another man and two women Brown had evidently taken offense at something Rcardon said and attacked him with a knife inflicting a bad rash in his head I Ross ran to Reardons assistance and In the struggle Ross received a gash on the chin one under the shoulder undone und-one In tho abdomen which may cause his death The struggle between Ross and I Brown was a battle of life or death beginning be-ginning at the rear ot the St Louis beer hall on Electric alley land ending at tho rear of Cares drug store on the opposite oppo-site side of the street when Policeman Farr appeared on tho scene nnd stopped ItThe The knife way recovered when Brown was arrested but strange to say had no blade This mster cleared blae mystery was ccared away later by Detective Ponder who found II tho blade near tho scene of tho troubc The knife handle showed unmistakable I evidence that the blade had boon purposely purpose-ly taken out and thrown away I |