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Show CAEPENTEB USES AX ON - mob or bbjcxlayees. - CHICAGO, March 18. Whirling 'an az about his head, a carpenter on a flat building build-ing -in course of construction at Forty-lghth Forty-lghth street and Drexel boulevard stood ofT a crowd of angry Bricklayers on a loftv scaffold at the fifth floor of the structure, threatening to brain the first man who approached. Then, forcing his way to the Ladder, he descended to the ground, escaping with alight injuries the shower of bricka with which his assailants assail-ants followed hfcn, and made his escape. ..The man waa newly employed on the building and offended the bricklayers forBnan, William Bnyder, objecting when the latter used his saw. Following an exchange ex-change of sharp words the carpenter knocked Snyder down with the blunt edge of an ax. A threatened .attack by the other bricklayers was prevented by the freedom with which the man swung hla weapon. While Snyder's assailant waa descending tWeladder a riot call was turned in to the Hyde Park police station, but the officers failed to arrive in time to take the car-pnater car-pnater In custody. |