| Show II j I Ill CROWD AfTER PRATT r t I c h t I 1 I It University Chronicle Editor I f I II 1 Has Narrow Escape 1 Ii 4 WRONG MAN IS SEIZED p c L i I Drugged Handkerchief Applied I t Ji i to George Gibbs Il f Ii i Parly Believed to So Suspended students I h It 1 I dents Handle Pratts Roommate Houghly Police Called I i I I 1 j I I 1 i The police have finally been called upon 1 J to Intervene in the trouble between the I I i ten suspended students of the University I of Utah and EdltOl Parker B Pratt of the I t University Chronicle if George A Glbbs F p is coircct In his identification of a party h i Ir i of men who aMilled him last night and I > 1 attempted to chloroform him Mr Gibbs I f S r I I I I Is so certain he has made no mistake that J i r f I no says he Is willing to swear to complaints I tl i k com-plaints n alnsl the ten tomorrow 1 1 t GOT FAKE MESSAGE I I About 1 oclock this morning GIbbs and I Pratt who were In the same room In the II c Alexander block on South Main wero I ft awakened by a messenger boy Who told j I i Pnitt the editor of The Tribune wanted i II i hm to come to the office at once Pratt I I got up dressed himself and was on tho 1 1 t point of leaving the room when Gibbs I pt 111 was seized with a sudden suspicion He 4 I suggested to rait that the momgo 1 1t I might bu designed by the sophomoies to lurt him from his room for the pmnoso of j harming him Regarding the suspicion as I II I I icnsonable Pratt decided to remain in i 5 I his room while Glbbs went down Malrs f 1 I and Investigated the surroundings li USKD DRUGGED HANDKERCHIEF r H L 1f1 That they took this precaution both are tI I 1 now thankful Gibbs had no sooner I II I reached the foot of the stairs than hoi ho-i I If f i was Hoizod by several strong hands and I j t J forced back Into a dark place In the hall I Ii I where a white handkerchief saturated p I j f I with some strong drug presumably chloroform I II chlo-roform was clapped over his face HoI Ho-I 1 1 I Ii struggled to frco himself and was trying I 1 i j lo shout when the handkerchief was Mud I IJ I < lefty withdrawn from over his mouth t j One of his asoallants told him he was not t the man they wore looking for and advised 4 i ad-vised him to leave the building and say 4 I II t nothing I I f t DOWN FIRE ESCAPE I I t Pratt hid In the meantime been preparing I 7 I prepar-ing to call the pollc having heard tho l I j Jt commotion and nunnlsed what the trouble 11 1 If trou-ble was Finding no other manner of lI f circ l ° s ho went out a window and down 1 I I 1 the lire oncapc dropping a distance of ten I J foci from the bottom of tho ladder to the 11 I 1 ij i ground Jle then ran through the muddy II I P I I11 l alleys to the Jockey Club livery ntuble on qI Market street where h < sent a hurry call I P Jt to the police Three officers responded U i j I i J U going to the scene on a run but when t j I l I fg they reached the place the attacking par L El 1 I lv hall jllsinneurrd IR f GIDBSS STORY IIa j r I Glbbs was badly dacd by 1 the treat I i mnt ho received for some lime after tho I occurrence He is conlldent that the men 1 I innant violence and that it was not Intended t f In-tended for a jouh 1 had no sooner gotten to a dark place 1 t at the bottom of the stair iu said In t I I tolling of tho affair than lace foliows I I 1 whose faces I could not HOC grabbed me I J firmly and pushed me back against tho I I wall I was on the point of shouting for I lClp when tho drugged handkerchief was 11 i I It pieased over my mouth and nncc and the I II I fumes which 1 Inhaled Mjrorcd mC and I I believe that had the handkerchief not I I f II been talfn awav T would have lost consciousness I F i con-sciousness In a few momints more Luckily i i k Luck-ily for me the fellows discovered I was f I i I not the man they wanted and let mo coin 1 t t it J co-in a few I seconds liter seizing me Just t i 11 I at this Juncture one of the fellows saw A l I i t policeman pass and they drew back r ago j 1 thu hull way palling me after thorn Just i 1 I i than footsteps were hoard uosialrs and I i Y one of the follows exclaimed Keep quiet I fellows here comes Pratt but Pratt 11 didnt conic and they must have axis f i 1 Titctcil Hint t he had loft the building for H j they told me to walk back into the hall 1 vnd then they laTt the building I 1 The police ncourod the neighborhood but 1 f I I J could Jind no tract of the men who caused I the trouble However the officers will i probably have another chance as Pratt 1 1 hays his first work Monday will bo to f I f wefir s to complaints against the ten suspended sus-pended students In an effort to have them t Ii placed under bonds to keep the peace He I F will also endeavor to aocure nennlsalon 1 I I from time authorities to carry a gun as ho IjcIIcves the aifalr has passed the funny I ftac Globs was one of Pratta predecessors as t t editor of the Chronicle and was spending 1 iii 1 the night at the Alexander block Gy ret re-t < iucst of Pratt as the latter feared vio II r lance at thi1 hands of the Sophomores or their frlendv I II t MARTYHS TO MINING SCHOOL J I I The faculty of the University of Utah I will meet tomorrow to consider the petition t I peti-tion from the students asking for the reinstatement M I 1 re-instatement of the ten young men suspended I sus-pended for throwing t vegetables I It 1 appears I ram tin rcrnnrlcs made by l f President Kingdbury before the student I body the other I day that the Stan Legislature l Legisla-ture Is the bugnboo which caused audi a spasm of dignity and good oid r at thoU t tho-U ivcrat > There Is a controversy Ii I among tho legislators said the President I it as to vhether the school of mines should I be connected with the Stale University or I I f with the Agricultural college Until that itf is settled It will not do for the students il I r by unseemly pranks to prejudice the i cause of tho U or U in the mInds of the Ii I legislators For the same reason the It faculty cannot afford to ignore any tent ten-t l dency to rowdyism Rowdyism Is very I J bud form when there Is an appropriation pending Therefore the suspended student 1 iI stu-dent arc beginning to regard themselves 1 us martyrs to the school of mines f |
