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Show OF CARROLL Case-Agaiast Man Who Cut Throat in Court-.room Court-.room Is Dismissed. "W. J. Carroll!" cried Clerk Leary la - the Police court Friday afternoon. A shudder of horror ran through the crowd of spectators, a they turned in- ; voluntarily to the spot where only . twenty-four hours before the man whose' name had been called slashed at his throat with demoniacal fury and , fell dying, and drenching the courtroom with his life blood. "W. J. Carroll, charged with using abusive language !" again cried Clerk " Leary, and turtilng to Judge Diehl, who had tried the case and had been about to pass judgment on Carroll, who had appealed It to the court from which there Is no appeal, he said: 1 "What shall I do with this case, your . Honor?" ' "Dismiss the case," said the court so-, so-, berly. . "And let the record show," said Prosecutor Pros-ecutor Wllley, "that the dismissal Is because of the death of the defendant." "Let It be so ordered," said the court, and the Incident was closed. The funeral services over the body of Carroll will be held at S o'clock Sunday afternoon at the funeral chapel of J. W. Taylor, 21 South West Temple street. Friends are invited to attend. |