Show TWO WOUNDED j jIN IN AllEY DUEl ONE MAr mE Love Affair Leads Leads to Battle With With Gun J and Pocketknife What police regard as a quarrel over a woman led to a knits knife and pistol duel between Day Dayton to Thomas 30 30 of South Second SecondS East street and George Smith 4 of 33 Center street In the the heart heartS of Salt Lakes Lake's fashionable residential district Saturday evening Thomas suffered several se knife kni wounds one of or which may prove proveS s fatal and Smith W was ac the victim of three bullets The fight which occurred In an- an an aD alley at the rear of the Bransford Brans Bran ford apartments State Stats and South Temple streets Is said sald by policeto police police- to have started over a mIsunderstanding standing over the affections of Mrs Irs Ruth M M. Davis 4 45 widow of 3 1 Ramona avenue The two men told contradictory stories to the police pOllee relative to which one pulled a weapon first and started the fight F TELLS OF ATTACK 9 Thomas In a statement o 0 o De Detectives es I. I L. L L L. Larsen J J. D. D Brown and David Beckstead said he was wa on his way to work at the Elks' Elks club when he was attacked by br Smith who ran at him from an alley just north o of 01 the Bransford apartment house which opens into into State street Smith said he had taken Mrs Davis to the Eagle Gate apartment house 28 North State street where she Is employed and started to re return return return re- re turn to the business district whet when he saw Thomas walking toward him with drawn pistol Smith said I he then drew his pocket knife and was wag fired upon b by Thomas Thomaz I. I WOMAN SEES FIGHT Mrs Davis said she met Smith Smith- on Main Maln street and he walked t to the Eagle Gate apartment house houie with her Smith left her at the ui front door and a few minutes later later Mrs Davis said she heard shooting shooting shoot shoot- ing and ran out of the apartment house bouse to see Smith and Thomas In Ina Ina ii iia a struggle A resident of the Bransford apartments ments seated In his apartment I Ion on the fourth floor of the building build ing stepped to 10 the window of or- or his his' f apartment upon hearing hellring the first shot fired eH saw two men I Igling gling in the alley hurried to the scene and successfully separated the two men inca He grabbed the muzzle of ot the auto automatic pistol and and- forced it away Mrs Davis had arrived ar- ar rived in the meantime and joined others In helping to separate the struggling men Officers Brown and Beckstead reached the scene a few minutes later and placed both men under arr arrest st st. BLADE MISSING Both wounded men were taken to the emergency hospital where EV J- J showed Thomas to be be suffering from a deep cut In the the- back between the shoulders The blade of Smiths Smith's which w was s broken flush with handle Is be be- lived to be embedded In this wound If such Is the case Thomas' Thomas lungs lungs lungs' are probably punctured physicians said The blade is about three and anda a half inches long Several other minor cuts were sustained by Thomas Smith was shot in the left side of ot his abdomen the left thigh and the right lower leg Two of the bullets bullets bul- bul lets emerged from Smiths Smith's body and andr the t rd is Imbedded in the right leg Thomas was removed to the ther the the- county hospital wh where re he will be kept under surveillance while Smith remained at the emergency tai I. Mrs Davis said she has known know Thomas for the past eleven years years years- most ost of which time he lie Ie has ll e lived at her home as a a. boarder The wo woman wo- wo man nian said she met Smith about a year ago and started keeping company company com corn pany with him Smith and Thomas have quarreled frequently in the past few weeks the woman told officers Smith declared Thomas i t threatened his life lite In the past ty eight hours Thomas Insisted that Smith had also threatened him |