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Show III FAINTED ill KEI DREW BIS GO! Before Judge Roberts in municipal court, preliminary hearing was on this morning In the case of the State versus ver-sus Petetr Mazzel who stands charged with the attempt to use a deadly weapon on tho person of F. E. O'Con- i nor on the early afternoon of Decern- ; o, iu mo juiiwuy jHrciS ai UlC Union Depot. O'Connor is in charge of the clean -I ing gang at the wards and testified I that, though Mazzel has worked for ; him for about six weeks, he had never before had occasion to complain ol his conduct but that on tho date in question, shortly after the lunch hour, he found Mazzoi in a drunken condi- tion and calmly advised him to go home, and tried to mako clear that he j was not discharging him from his job. Mazzoi evidently lost his temper land refused to be conciliated and ultimately ulti-mately backed up against a standiug dining car, pulled a gun and threatened threat-ened O'Connor with. "I'll get you." O'Connor wisely opened his office door and disappeared from sight. Three witnesses in the persons of Mrs. Oliver Drysdale, Mrs. Jack and Miss Williamson testified to the incident, in-cident, though Miss Williamson says she could not swear to seeing the gun because she fainted at tho time. Tho three young women wero working In the dining car against which Mazzel was standing when he threatened O'Connor. A. G. Horn, representing O'Connor, asked for dismissal of the charge, saying say-ing that It would be possible for him to entertain a charge of assault In behalf be-half of his client but that the testimony testi-mony was not conclusive as to the charge mentioned in the complaint." Judge Roberts denied the motion and defendant Is bound over to appear ap-pear in district court ri n |