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Show I TOM SMITH JR. I BADLY CUT I On face and neck in I a scrap, 1 Emmet Richeson does 1 expert carving. H Last Friday night about 11 o'clock I Thomas II. Smith, Jr.. sun of Coun-H Coun-H chimin Smitli, mcl Ills "Waterloo" . fljjt tin liands ot a young man named ' Kminett Richeson, and today Is confined con-fined to his homo with u number of seven- cuts acioss bis face and buck of Ills head. The young man's cur was slashed in two and three long gushes are to be found on the upper pait of his neck. .Smith lost a great quantity quanti-ty of blood before surgical assistance could be obtained, and while the wounds ;ue not necessarily dungeious, the young man is still very weak. Theallajr occuned on Fhst South sheet Just opposite the lirlgham Young College, and theic are different differ-ent accounts of the sciap. As the young men told of the alfalr a few minutes after the cutting, it was gatheied that Tom and others as they proceeded down the street towaids home were suddenly attacked by a vicious rutllan with a knife of piodlg-Ions piodlg-Ions length who wielded the histiu-ment histiu-ment to such advantage that Smitli was all cut up before anyone could interfere. in-terfere. In front of Dr. Parkinson's office where Smith was taken for surgical attention, a crowd gathered, and as George Villet and Alex Nelson told the story, there was talk of catching H ijlie "unknown" and lynching him. Irttr "lct N'1'" ,lli,t 1,c "ia('c a (l!,s1' at t,lc 'V fellow as he .stui ted to run down the , street, but the carver turned round, i displayed Ids knife and George piomptly bucked. When asked I the fellow's name. Villet said lie H didn't know. .Nelson was all un-! strung and was appaiently heaitj H broken because some one kept him I from going after the fellow who did I tiie cutting. Kvery sentiment at that time was against, the man who' did the cutting and Smith was con-1 B sidcred a sacrifice to an abnormal ' H thirst for goie. H The police got wind of the alfair and otllcer Henson went to the home of the "unknow n"in the Westlleld and found him cleaning up an arsenal prepara- tory to a midnight visit which heex- peeled. Tlie young man proved to be B one F.mmett Richeson, ti new-comer in town, and from Kentucky. When he told Ids story, a new light was tluown on the matter and Smith turn- bled off the pedestal on which his B friends placed him. I As Richeson tells the story . he.wlth thtcc other boys were hurrying to the V Second ward dance when they came cross Smith with his ciowd. As they bttempted to pass, Smith gave Riche- SSn a poke with his umbiella and when remonstrated with, gave anotli- or dig with his rain stick. Tills made Richeson hot and he called Tom a name that Is seldom lieaid in Sunday schools and Smith jumped all over lilni. They Tell, with Richeson under- neatli. Smith proceeded to choke I liim with one arm and pummel witli Ids other list, and all this time Uiche- son was going after ills pocket-knife. He got It, and then Tom got it. Rich- c.son said that lie couldn't tell what damage lie was doing, but that after he had hacked away awhile, Smith rolled ollof him, aim then lie got up and took to his heels. Saturday aftcinoon. Richeson, who had been placed in Jail over night, had J a hearing before Justice Curdon. He! pleaded not guilty and was placed un-! tier Moo to uwalt his preliminary heai-l Ing which comes oil on Friday. The young man furnished bull and was released. re-leased. I Tlieie was a "scrap" on Fildayl night also. Four loungfellows.numesj unknown weie in fiont or the Lincoln Lin-coln Hotel about one o'clock qiianel-; Ing away at a gieat rate, Incidentally discussing which should be killed". I They -vere invited to go acioss the' street and utilie a acant lot for their blood-spilling opeiatlon, and they promptly vamoosed. One of the young fellows showed up next morning morn-ing with a face that still looks us though it had passed thiough a sele. |