Show STEM JNO I V NOO BY 8 MI MISTAKEN I I t i J i Cries ries 0 of f M Murder ur d er B. B Bring ring Series r of Exciting Adventures Ad Ad- I ventures ventures s Grave Grave Charge Made de Against Police j BIES of or Murder M Murder J rl rland CRIES CRIES' V- V Vand and sl ks for help sent Uriel High Higham m 28 Jears of age dashing into the street scantily t clad to the rescue early this morning Events followed thick and fast for the young man ma and after atter undergoing an ordeal of f torture and abuse he was shot through the shoulder shoulder and lies Hes w wounded d' d at t his h home me South Main l Ia n street Two men believed to have been I police pollee officers did the beating while Patrolman William Duffy shot th the theman I man through the shoulder when he tho thought a a desperate criminal was I escaping i My Uy sister had gone gone to a party part and I when my brother cr Ambrose and I I heard the cries of oft woman we wg w leaped I out of bed and dashed into the street bar barefoot foot said Higham We Ve found II 1 ja t woman woman lying on her back in inthe the ther ut r gutler er bleeding freely and with her I v Clothes othes lohes almost torn fr from m her body ACCOMPLICES ARRIVE t i 1 This his Was Was only a half halt a block from A in- in the he house man apparently in intoxicated was standing over her ready leady to strike her if she slue should riso o J X caught hold of his arm and anda I a neighbor assisted me Ae We A e 8 started toward the police station A man I evidently a pal of the assailant ar arrived ar- ar rived and just as we we rot pot near the Mapleleaf dairy ho called railed OU out Three I men all apparently intoxicated came I from a house nearby I gathered from the remarks exchanged ex- ex exchanged exchanged ex ex- changed that thy they were detectives or policemen and that the womans woman's as assailant assailant assailant as- as was a policeman and had been with the others a short time before At Fifth Firth South and Main 1 sti streets eis themen the themen themen men turned on m me and forced me into an automobile They hey comI commenced bea beating me f I ATTEMPT AT T MURDER R. R e eThe The driver of the car cried Kill the The man on on my right a atall atall atall tall dark complexioned fellow replied that he would do s so o and in quick time They both struck at t me me repe repeatedly They stamped on my my feet f fOnce Once I leaped from from the machine and another automobile was was as passing I jumped to the running running board and nd begged the driver to rescue me mold him I r was a returned soldier and that I was willing to go to to the police station Sta Station sta- sta tion if he thought anything was wrong wrong I He pushed me from the machined machined I 1 dont don't want to get mixed Up in fairs with the he said J The men drove the machine r i was in to State street then back again to South Main lain street When hen we e arrived i in front pf Eardley's store on South I Main l street t managed to break brea away The patrol wagon had arrived as s It was vas near the scene of the assault on the woman and someone had evid evidently turned in an alarm SHOT IN SHOULDER There was a large crowd collected collect d. d The men in in l the machine lea leaped d after me an and an officer from patrol I wagon fired in the an air I pitched forward for for- forward I war ward and rolled as hf he h fired again main and I felt the bullet pass through my lef left t shoulder The They carried me into the house I believe that two of the men who had hac d beaten me followed One of them eve even n tried tiled to strike me as I lay on Ol m m ny y back I heard eard that the name of th e officer who had d shot me was Duffy Members of the family testified d much to the same effect regarding th thE e actions actions' of the men supposed to b be ee e officers The rhe woman who was assaulted assaulted as as- could not be bc found today Hundreds Hundreds Hundreds Hun Hun- of or persons were rous roused fro fron In their beds by the affair and gathered d at the scene POLICE SUSPENDED I I have haye not had time to investigate e the affair said Chief of Police J Par cj cy White hile If If the story of th the e young man proves true and the me men n who beat heat him up were police officers officer I will not only discharge them but butwill butwill 1 I will pr prosecute them to the full extent exten I will order their arrest bt before fore night nigh Two officers Under suspicion were suspended this morning Higham Bigham is a stenographer H His His He Heis e is a returned soldier and was i it il t France returning with the Utah ar ar- ar tillery |