Deseret Evening News | 1902-11-10 | Page 10 | Brutal Assault on Bert Smith

BRUTAL ASSAULT I I ON BERT SMITH I Highwaymen Ucal a Vicious Blow With a Club THEN MAKE IE u as IU had ten Old hud That the tho elt city Is overrun h by toughs arid thugs in III evident by the thebold bold arid brutal assault mude h by two Idaho on J S Smith lilt an at time tho n Jut 7 last even III on oil Twelfths Twelfth and Second streets ets Mr Smith known as 8 hen Hert was OR on hi huis vay home haute when tM thud assault occurred Four ear ago ugo Mv Mr waif servIng us head hend turnkey nt at the Idaho state prison SOn and otto ono time lund occasion to so se severely verely two who had Violated the rules of ho Institution In III Inthe the tho men inert assaulted lust eveS eo aing lie hc recognized th thu two then and lie ht b believes they lucy laid In walt vult for hInt him aud that they murder Ito Ho was walking lit at the point mentioned when the men suddenly conS con 1 him r spoke Sl oke a word lIu but t tOnIJ of time the men miten struck struel him him It a vicious blow on the head wIth It a hell heavy club In n a de I wound In his iii forehead mind the cheele Inure Mr South grappled with tho hue thus things but they rn aged to make their escape server as u flutist at liaise a deputy and dep deputy uty that lie best and to do would be to report lie 10 the pOlIce that is isto to tIme but in tIthe he ills covered hat lie had a to lie mud asked tot tine chief hut in at thu As the chief Is only irs hue ollice of the pollee of which hue in head about ten in tIny Mr Smith sins Informed that I the lie was seeking was i over at barn barnWell Well as I do not cure to remit Oft I do muot it necessary to go over at the barn replied Mr 1 supposed that the chief of could hO seen at hue pollee station as mire In other cIties but here I lint Iii Is In a tiara but I Isen sen no reason why I should go Mr SmIth lien stated that Salt hake at time Is harboring man crooks of all kinds and descriptions thugs end confidence men mummy of he has recognIzed eu time streets Ills statement Is reason mule in view of the fact that in the desk is ii book a private bouic contaIning accounts of burglaries confidence ThIt book furnish many an Interest lag star but the orders the newspaper reporters are not per to enter lie much hens gaze on the sacred record of bur glance robberies Mr SmIth has frequently informed thu of the of these macit but nil the thanks begot was a thinks hue head of Is about run Competent what he story