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Show I YOUTH 8ADIY . I IMS AGED ill H 3PAXISH FORK. Jan. 20. Thomas H Corbett, a young roan of this place, 19 H years of ago, Is under arrest here. H ) charged with attcmiiLlng to rob the H home and with beating up the person H of James B. Albertson, an, aged man H who lives alone Albertson was at H l homo at S o'clock last evening, when H j a man with a handkerchief tied around H his face, entered (he place pud or- H p dored Albertson to throw up his H . r hands. " I know who you are," said H' Albertson, nt the same time arising H and moving away. The young man H followed him and struck him three H heavy blows with his pistol In the H hack of the head. Albertson turned M i around and bis assailant again order- H . , lug him to throw up his hands, struck H ' him twice in the face with the pistol, H felling him to tiio floor. Tho would-be H robber then ran out, and Albertson at l once informed City Marshal Martell, H who went to Corhett's home and j found him in bed. Corbctt was taken j to tho city Jail, where he is being H held pending preliminary examination. H This morning Marshal Martell foun.l H a revolver on the road between the H Albertson and Corbett homes, tho end H of which was covered with blood. M , Blood was also found on Corbett's H clothing, so there Is little doubl in H the minds of the officers that he Is H the guilty party. H Albertson Badly Cut. . H Albertson is agca about 70 years, H and resides alone in a remolo quartor H of the town. His head is badly cut H where tho pistol struck him, and it H ,s i-eed tbaL serious results may en- H C sueC'onjaccount of his advanced age. H iv Corbet(.was recently released from m I a six ninths' tqrgi in tho State InJus- H trial school whore he served time for H minor offenses. His' motive in ruak- H ing the assault on. Albbrtsoa tost cven- H Ing was undoubtedly robberv- as so H far as known hc.co"uld have no flPwill H against the latter, wno-is an in&fren- MMb slve citizen. |