Show ASSAULT FOSTER HAS HIS JAW BROKEN two men one of whom Is cantered Capt ered him one knocking him insensible from mondays standard one of the most dastardly and unprovoked assaults perpetrated in this city for a long time was made on the person of foster watchman at the Z C M I 1 department store about 1030 last evening at the hour mentioned in company with P H van patten was sitting on the step on the east side of the building two men approached pro ached from the south on washington avenue without the least warning and with jio baue whatever one of the men stepped aside and uttering an oath struck an awful blow on the side of the jaw the blow rendered the watchman insensible for some alme after committing the assault the two men ran north on washington avenue and about the same time officer malone came up he was asked by van patten to arrest the two men for striking the officer gave chase and succeeded in placing one of the men under arrest the other making good hit escape by running down twenty third street an examination showed that the blow bad caused a fracture of the left jaw and a physician was summoned to dress the wound the man captured when taken to the station house gave his names as john waters he Is a blacksmith by trade and works at the southern pa shops A charge of disturbing the peace was placed opposite his name on the police blotter |