Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-07-23 | Page 7 | Boy Brutally Beaten

BOY BRUTALLY BEATEN His Assailant Enraged at Being Worsted at Pool. ITnrry Newcomb, a Donvcr & Bio Grande engineer, is in jail on a charco of assault and batter'. JIo will bo nsked to explain to Judgo Diohl this afternoon why he brutally beat Joseph lhoreson, nn eightccii-year-old boy, at tho Tom and Jerry poolroom, '.Third South and Main streets, early Sunday morning. According to the stories told by tho boy and Oillcer Stains, who mado the arrest, Newcomb and the young fellow engaged in a gamo of pool, in which the latter was signally victorious. This enraged the engineer, who had entered the game with expectations of a far different result, and ho sprnug upon the victor and mauled him unmercifully. unmerci-fully. Thoreson had several teeth knocked out and was otherwise badly bcaton up.