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Show FIGHT IN A SALOON FATAL Salt Lake, May 25 "Kddie' Welsh, who suffered two fractures of the skull when hp wan hit and knocked to the floor In a brawl at the Or-pheum Or-pheum b;ir. corner of Orpboum alley and Commercial street. Saturday nigh', died jn the county hospital yesterday noon Ed l)e Rossia, 27 veai-8 of age, and Arthur CurtiR 41, are unner arrest on charge of at-tempted at-tempted murder, and It was said at polic headquarters last night that the charge miphl he c hanced to murder mur-der today He Rnssla was arrested at 11 ?u o'clock Saturday night bv Patrolman Keciriington t 4:20 o'clock yesterday morning Patrolmen K'ecidinKton and W'oodard arrested (-'urtia In a Commercial street room Ing house It vhs nnlv veslerday that the Of the victim of the flpht could be learned fiP 1-iarl been booked at headquarters as "John Doe White" Patrolman Charles .Torcpn.sen arrested arrest-ed Robert Shell at 9:50 o'clock Sat urday n I ch t on a charge of Intoxication Intoxica-tion and later advised that Shell be I held as a witness. When questioned I yesterday Shell first denied that he knew anything about the affair or about the injured man. After being questioned further he admitted tha? he came t0 Salt Lake three dayF ago with the man. whom he said he knew as -'Eddie- Welsh Ife said that Welsh came here from Nevada, where Shell met him Before that Shell said. Welsh told him he wan working in Ar7ona mines Welsh was prob ably between 20 and 35 years of age. Acc-ordlnc tn Shell Welsh told him that h worked n Mexican mines during dur-ing ; winter months Me sa;d that WHsh had told him of having a nar row escape from being shot bv the constitutionalist forces in Mexico when he was suspected of being a spy At 7 25 o'clock last night Tames W Maze, a painter, L'S year of age. was arrested on Commercial street by Patrolman Pa-trolman Keddington and held as a witness Officer Keddington said thRt he had been reliably Informed that Maze was a witness to the blow that felled Welsh and resulted In his death n autopsy was held orrr the body of Welsh in the Evans underUckinq rooms last night, with County Physician Phys-ician ('. C Snyder in charge. Dr Snyder said that the blow which struck Welsh on the left cheek doubt lessly stunned him and caused him to f.il! He eaid that the two frac tures, one at the base of Ihe brain and the other at the top of the back of the man's back, were doubtless; the refult of the fall. |
