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Show SALT LAKEl ! UNCONSCIOUS I WOMAN IS ! FOUND v i i r i Salt Lake, Aufl. 13. Attacked and ( 6rutally beaten by an unidentified man and left unconscious in the ex- : cavation of an old basement between A G and H streets on Seventh avenue W Mrs. Frederick Raddon of 390 F street I ' was found at 11 o'clock last night by j ( Peter Erskine. Assisted by Louis I Harvey of 465 Eighth avenue, h6 car ried Mrs. Raddon to her home, whore she Is seriously ill. Her mouth 13 swollen and her face bruised and I she bears the finger marks of her i assailant on her throat. Mr. Rad- , 1 don is manager of the Raddon Tea & ,' Coffee company of this city. I As soon as "information of the at tack bad spread through the neighborhood neigh-borhood there was Intense excitement and indignant men searched the streets and alloys in au effort to find the assailant. Man:' threats of lynching were heard. Frederick Raddon, the injured woman's husband, hus-band, called the police station and five policemen were hurried to the neighborhood in an auto patrol. Tho man who had attacked Mrs. Raddon, however, had made good his escape. Ray Raddon, a laborer 22 years old, brother of Frederick Raddon, was arrested at 2:15 o'clock this morning morn-ing at his home, 336 F street, on suspicion of being connected with tho crime. He did not seem surprised or inquisitive when arrested, but told the policemen as they were taking him to the station that they would 1 have to furnish prooL ( Raddon Is alleged to have threat ened tho -woman. The police say he was arrested last April on a charge f of beating his father. Mrs. Raddon was on her way home I after visiting her sister, Mrs. Vivian Snow, Seventh avenue and J street "fa She was accompanied to H street and J Seventh avenuo by Mr. and Mrs. Snow. When she left them Mrs. Raddon Rad-don proceeded along Seventh avenuo at tho middle of tho block toward G street. Mrs. Raddon says that she saw a man approaching and thought it was her husband coming to meet her. As she was about to speak. She screamed scream-ed and he choked her until she bled from the mouth and nose. Her as-, as-, sailant then struck her repeatedly uu- til she became unconscious, lie I then, it is presumed, dragged her to the old basement excavation and fled. Peter Erskine was sitting on his porch at 5GG Seventh avenue when he heard a scream. "That's a woman's cry." said his wife. ' No it sounds as if it might be a cat," Erskine replied. Just then they heard another scream, unmistakably that of a woman. wo-man. Erskine leaped from his porch and ran a block and a half, calling for help. Louis Harvey, who was on ! bis way home, was attracted by the crv for help, and joined Erskine Meanwhile the neighborhood had been aroused. Erskine and Harvey easily found Mrs. Raddon, as she was groaning. f Before other neighbors arrived the two men carried the unconscious wo-man wo-man into tho street. She became conscious in a few minutes and was I able to walk a small part of the way to iher home. |