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Show BADLY BATTERED OP AN D SERIOUSLY HURT Hide Buyer Hobbs and a Saloon , Man Mix in a Hot Fight. When A. W. Hobbs. a hldo buyer of Salt Lake. ontTcd tho pollen station Tuesday night, his most Intimate friends would not havo known him. His head and face wero so battered and cut up that It would havo been Jinrd to locate a place an Inch squaro that wasn't either cut or bruised, and an examination by a physician physi-cian later In the evening disclosed wounds that may provo very serious. Hit With Billiard Cue. According to Hobbs's story ho was hit with a billiard cue in tnc hands of Frank Logan, an employee of MacEIroy's saloon on Commercial street. Farther than that ho cannot romombcr, as tho wounds Inflicted In-flicted were sufficient to completely stun him for the tlmo being. Both eyes wero closed, or nearly closed, both cheeks wero cut, thrco wounds extending nearly across tho top of his scalp, and he wna otherwiso injured. Logan Tells Story. When Logan was taken into custody he admitted hitting Hobbs with a billiard ball, but says that he did not use a cue. According to his statement Hobbs refused to pay for a game of pool and that tho fight was a result of an argument which followed. Weak From Loss of Blood. Hobbs was quite weak from the loss of blood and It was feared that he had suffered suf-fered a concussion of the brain, but the physician in attendance said, after dressing dress-ing and sewing up the wound, that ho did not bcllove cither wound would provo serious. |