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Show Victims of Odd Experience I, i ' ' .4v t sv 5 . VCi FATHER OF S. L. BOY, 14, ROUTS LAD'S ATTACKER Child Choked Severely by Stranger While Near Home A 14-year-old Salt Laka boj nursed neck bruises Wednesday and his alleged assailant was charged by police with drunkenness. The victim, Robert L. Tomlin, son of Mr. and Mra. Harry L. Tomlin, of 263 South First West street, told police he was walking through a field adjoining his horns about :4J p. m. Tuesday, when he wss approached ap-proached by a young man. Tha man, whom b later assert-edly assert-edly Identified as Cleone Sproul, 21, ordered him to stop, but the boy said he continued on his wsy home When hs reached the rear yard ol his home, tbs boy said, tha assailant assail-ant grabbed him around the throat and stsrted to choke him. Police arrested Sproul and booked him on a charge of drunkenness. Sproul spent the night in Jail, but was released early Wednesday, after posting a $10 bond which waa forfeited for-feited when he failed to appear in police court. Robert said ha wss unsble to cry out, but that snother boy who witnessed wit-nessed ths affair ran for aid, Mr. Tomlin, 46, ran from the living liv-ing room of his home, around ths sids of ths house and into a clothes lins. Thrown off his feet, he suffered suf-fered severe cuts about tha mouth, the police emergency hospital reported. re-ported. After tearing the assailant from his son, Mr. Tomlin held tha alleged choker until police arrived. Neither Mr. Tomlin nor Robert knew Sproul or had aver before seen him, they told officers, and no motive for the alleged choking was advanced. ... ..... -i v X , .h- V ' W i FATHER AND SON RELATE ADVENTURE Robert L. Tomlin, 14, left, and his dad, Harry L. Tomlin, earn- , pare their Injuries CLEONE 8PROIX Forfeited bond In police court. |