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Show EUREKA MEN JAILED; ASSAULT IS CHARGED PROVO, Aug. 3. Gabe Westberg and James Garbett of Eureka were arrested in Goshen last night and brought to Provo, charged with having committed an assault with a deadly weapon, with intent to do bodily harm, on William Finch of Goshen. Finch is In the Tro-vo General hospital in a critical condition. He is reported to have sustained a fractured frac-tured skull and is bruised about the face and body. According to the officers. Westberg and Garbett called Mr. Finch from his home. Westberg, it is charged, seized him by the collar with one hand and struck him on the head with an automobile auto-mobile crank handle with the other. Finch's son Is said to have come out of the house and proceeded to intercede, inter-cede, when he was stopped nt the point of a rifle in the hands of Garbett, according ac-cording to the officers. Westberg said he had been informed that Finch had been making serious charges dernga tory to Mrs. West berg's character. Westberg said he struck Finch with his fist. |