Show accidents in salt lake A very ein eular accident and one that might have proved fatal occurred at the st elmo hotel at an early hour yesterday morning it seems that john smith a sporting man who rooms at the house turned in at about 2 bringing with liim a large jag instead of going to bed john sat in the window of his room on the third floor and letting the cool breezes fan his fevered brow when crash went the window screen and john tumbled headlong to the balcony below it was very fortunate for joh n that the balcony wag there otherwise his brains would undoubtedly haap decorated the pavement below A a it was Us was broken and the bone over the lett eye was fractured to eay nothing oi sundry bruises and scratches on various parts of his he was conveyed to st marys hospital where dr pinkerton attended to his injuries and last even ins he vi as ft alini elini quite comfortable it il he remembered that weeks ago holni er white conceived the brilliant idea of going into the of low dives on west temple street near second south and getting held up by the toughs who make that district their head quarters and then bagging a couple of the couple of the thusa the first part of the scene worked beautifully bit the second part waa not a success the officer was held up all right but in attempting to cap ture the crooks he shot an innocent man named frank martin in the leg the wound was of a serious nature and recently neset in and in order to save the limb and perhaps ahe mans life dr pinkerton yesterday amputated the poor fellows foot herald |