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Show FEDERAL STATUTE ON T'B ASSAULT IS INVOKED Salt Lake. March 4 Charged with an unprovoked assault on his superior. supe-rior. Charles S. Randolph aced "2 I years, employed In the office of Unit- ' ed Slates Surveyor General Thomas 11 Hull, was arrested last evenlne on a for complaint charging? assault and bat-tery bat-tery in breach of the federal statutes. 'L'ru The charge carries upon conviction ,. ? ;i maximum penalty of $300 fine and six months Imprisonment. Randolph Is said to have refused to j, take orders from the acting chief clerk H, R M. tkinson when Mr. Hull In-tervened. In-tervened. telling Randolph that it was his duty as a government employe ; li i to take such orders as his superior : l(j, saw fit to give Mr Hull was HittinR in a chair, his feet under a table, Randolph standing opposite It is said that Randolph leaped at the Bur- veyor geueral, attempting to hold him In the chair and striking him vicious-ly vicious-ly with his fist Mr Hull is considerably consid-erably older than tho mnn arrested j t The complaint charging breach of kX the federal statutes was sworn to be- rag fore United States Commissioner C S. Baldwin After Randolph was ar- jfV rested his bond was set at 5500 The MP offense ( governed by tho federal tP laws because it took place in a gov- yd' ernment building, which is without the Jurisdiction of the state aKogeth- fl5 er, the land having been ceded by the state to the nation, tLi In cases of misdemeanor the proced- NS ure, after a man Is held by a com- yj missioner, may be either by direct ijj Information or by grand Jury Indict- (T ment, and If Commissioner Baldwin h holds Randolph after a preliminary VL hearlnc the man will be tried before the United States district Judge . |