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Show Richard Jlaxflcld Is Sc-; Sc-; vcrcly Slashed by.Kcri ! Butler. Richard Maxfleld Is at a local hospital suffering: from an ugly cut In tho small of his back.' Inflicted yesterday afternoon I by Nerl Butler, who is in the county jail awaiting the outcome of Maxfield's injuries. Butler was the owner of a small piece of land In Cottonwood canyon, near Sandy. San-dy. He had left the place for a time, and it la alleged that Max field was left , In charge. It also to alleged that Bishop P. D. BrlntOn of Bandy Jumped the land. When Butler returned and found Brlnton Brln-ton in possession he upbraided Maxfleld, It Is alleged, and In the altercation that followed he is alleged to have slashed Maxfleld with a pocket knife. He was arrested lata last night. ' Maxfleld 1 resting easy' and his physicians phy-sicians say that, unless complications arise, he . will recover. |