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Show Police Look for Greek Charged With Assault A -warrant for the arrest of Louie Letis, Greek porter at tho Marion ho tel, who is alleged to have struck Edward Ed-ward Naisbett over the head with a cuspidor last evening, inflicting a sc-veer sc-veer gash, was issued in the city court this morning. Naisbett, in company with Hyrum Doxey, Frank Clinkey and Lester Sor-ensen, Sor-ensen, were in the hotel. Sorensen, a former employe of the Marion, who -.A .1 r t .11. i.. iiuu uiuu iui xji;ii& lieu lit; it ijica, engaged in a playful tussle with the Greek, it Is' said. The tussle enraged Letis, the boys assert, and he started to attack Soreuson, according to the I police. Naisbett, who is 1G years old, i threw his arms around the Greek's chest from behind, in an effort to separate sepa-rate the pair. Letis Is alleged to have bitten the back of Naisbett's hand several sev-eral times. The boys then started to leave the place, they claim, and Letis picked up a heavy earthen cuspidor and smashed k over Naisbett's head. He then soized a bucket, the police say, and threatened threat-ened to strike any of the boys who attempted at-tempted to intervene in the behalf of Naisbett. Naisbett was picked up from the floor and removed to the Major drug store, where his wounds v.' ere treated. The boy is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Naisbett. Mrs. Naisbett stated at the police station that her husband had gone to the hotel Immediately after the iboy was brought home. She asserted that David Mattson, proprietor, as-Jsurcd as-Jsurcd her husband that the Greek I would be brought before the authorities. authori-ties. The Greek has not yet been located by officers, they said. |