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Show "IT -0 Y SMITH T STABS A l MAN Jjft . Toy Smith, the colored man who at- 'Mr tempted to kill Officer Mohlman In a K lower Twenty-fifth street saloon 'W1' about a year ago, and who was later K.- sentenced to the penitentiary for IS T R vcars, hart another charge placed 'K aa'nst n,m yesterday when ho made rfcj K a murderous assault on another con-iH'm con-iH'm vlct In the Utah prison. At al)0UL 2:30 'cIoclc Smith stab-" stab-" bed Gus Dqres aud was placed in sol-fr sol-fr nary confinement pending an Invoa-- Invoa-- R tlgatlon. The knlfo used by Smith T was stolen from the prison shocmak-'? shocmak-'? ex shop and had been carefully co'n--Hetcealed by the negro. It Is not known "mi "ivhat is thQ clIrect cause of tho alter-kj alter-kj cation botweeu the two convicts, but - it Is supposed that it is a long-tand- ing feud. When the fight between wv t10 Lwo men commoncet Dorcs ran '.Wh away from Smith, when he saw that 'ft! lhe nc5ro nad a k"Ife- Smith chased ' cKf DoreB, however, and as the two were flft running stabbed him In thj back. .Hi- Tho blade of the knife struck Dorcs' ml shoulder blade and thus no vital organ "Hf was penetrated. ' : B Warden Pratt said last nighL that mi, Smith will be prosecuted for, assault Hf with a deadly weapon, the maximum 4 Ht'- penalty for which Is twenty years' (- imprisonment. Negro 13 Bad Man. Smith is known to the prison and ,1- police authorities as a bad man. lie "served eighteen months In tho statel prison for robbery committed in 190fi, and after his release ho attempted to shoot a police officer Su Ogden and for this ho was nentenced to eighteen years, having been convicted of assault as-sault with Intent to murder. On the first offense Smith, was arrested by Patrolman C. A. Carlson. After he was relcasod Xrom prison Smith went to Ogden and became Implicated Im-plicated In a burglary. He was arrested arrest-ed by Patrolman Mohlman in this city. The officer led Smith Into a saloon sa-loon that he might telephone for the patrol wagon. While ho was telephoning tele-phoning Smith drew a revolver and fired at the officer's head, missing his mark. He- then fled, but war, arrested ar-rested shortly after at Eva'nston, Wyo. |