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Show oo WATCHMAN IS HIT OVER THE HEAD In his search for box car theives who had broken into a box car, Joseph Jo-seph Burnett, a watchman In the lo cal yards, was attacked and seercl beaten about the head by thugs shortly short-ly after midnight. He was found In an unconscious condition lying In a pool of l.lood, b switchmen who had been sent to look for him and was remoed to the Dee hospital for treatment. lien Hurnett recovered conscious ness later he was unable to give a I clear account ..f what happened but j he bellees that there were either two or three thugs. He was walking through the ards In search of thles and had reached a point on the side track In the rear of the Ogden Wbole-I Wbole-I sale Grocery building When he flashed his searchlight Into a dark corner, he was immediately attacked 'and rendered senseless by blows up- on the head. Earlier in the evening. Special Pa trolman Manzeii had found a number of new hats In the alley near the old pickle factory on Wall avenue. They were recognized as having leen taken tak-en from a car then on the sidetrack and the railroad watchmen were sent lout alter the thieves. How long Rurnett lay upon the j ground before the switchmen found ! 1 him is not know n. The clerk in the freight office had become anxious con-Icerning con-Icerning the watchman and with a companion had walked down the track. Recause of the darkness the two had passed the wounded watch-j watch-j man and It was not until the night switchmen Joined In the search was the man found. The injuries on the back of Bur-inctt's Bur-inctt's head look as though thev hal been Inflicted with a sharp instru ment In addition, his face is cut and his nose and lips are swollen fd |