Show NEGRO WITH RAZOR C H brown admits cutting four men in running fight salt lake june 10 C 11 brown drown a negro aneiro 22 years of ago age way was arrested by officer carl A carlson at an early hour sunday morning and booked at the police station on the charge of assault with a deadly weapon he lie admitted to the officer that ho lie was tho the one who had bad wielded his razor with guch such bloody effect upon four whito men in front of the Orphe ant theater a it few minutes after 1 sunday morning the exact cause of the row Is not known the white men wen claim that the negro Is at fault and the negro claims that be he did the cutting in self de fonse john thompson a young white tailor tallor who first engaged in the fight with brown received several bad gashes his shoulder blade and left arm wore were ripped open and asdall wound made in the back grover pence 9 a barber and two others went to the tile rescue of thompson but the injuries they sustained were trivial their clothes however were bially cut thompson admitted that he followed the tile negro after he had been called a vile name it Is eald said there is a story of robbery back of it all two negro women are eaid said to have bom ackin mixed in the affair prior to the tile actual cutting thompson accused one of them in front of the orpheum theatre of rob bing him of some money the negro took up the argument and that was tho tile beginning of a running fight thompson ha had ri been cut once or twice before tho the other white men got into the fight 1 I stand to see a whito man got the worst of it with a ni niger ger said pence as his excuse for gething getting mixed up la in the affair the four chased the little negro and as tho they Y closed in on him he struck right and left with hia razor send for a doctor quick said thompson as he lie with the others presented himself at the police station im cut all to pieces |