Show CONVICT IN COURT CORT COURTIS Ills IS OWN ONN lA Clad in prison clothes their heads hearts closely cropped and under tho the watch watchful ful rul eyes of or Warden WardeD Arthur Pratt Deputy Dep ut uty Warden A A. C. C lire Uro and two guards from tho the state prison four convicts were tho the center of ot interest in tho the criminal crim inal division of time tha city court this morning when whon tho preliminary hearing of Toy Tov Smith sel in serving ci eighteen bt tn years ears for felonious assault wa was as held and anil Smith was ordered to answer in tho the district court on a charge of assaulting I Gu Gust t DoreR Dorca another Dother convict with a aI I I knife on January 1 within tho ho walls walla I of ot tb the prison I Smith conducted his bis own defense I but did not Dot take tako the this stand i- i Dor pores Dores s a was tho the first t w witness TIc He said that a light fight was b begun un iii in the cell I house on on the aft afternoon of January 4 L I and nd ho he ran ran down the tho stairs to seq I what W was going oin on Ed Bell and GeorgeI George I C. C Sutton accompanied him When reached the bottom of or the tLc stairway Smith asked him what be ho wa wag Vas doin doing thoro there and made two slashes nt at him with tho knife which Dores dodged Smith struck him with tho the knife at tho third attempt a as Dores Pores was running run rimu t I nin ning from front him The knife blade pene his flesh to the shoulder blade B Bell and Sutton corroborated Dorc statements s. s L Guards George Georgo C. C Johnston and Henry Tag Tag Taggert ert told of the disarming of ot Smith who O throw tho the knife into a acell acen cell cen and tb then n wont wont- to the cell and brou brought bt it out for them Smith tried I to lead head tho guards to say that t the tho knife came came- from the shoo shoe shop to toI I which he be hail had no J. access The testified that the knife had como come originally from tho shoo shoe shop but had been used in in inthe tho the kitchen having been ground round do down n for that purpose Smith mith offered no defense defense de- de de Ie and was bound over to the tho district dis dis- dis triet court The Tho convicts convict under their guards were crt handcuffed to together ether and returned to tho the state prison in the prison on automo bile |