Show frightful T on thursday elemi ag a frightful stabbing affray took toa place near and it banot at all unlikely that the affair will result fatally about in the evening IJ harry rry F hicks who is i a in the em employ loy of christopher layton and aire alien n boyne who works for joseph aldridge pot got into an alteria altercation tion about something which is not known the men it appears I had quarreled on a it previous occasion occasion when hicks had proven himself to be the better man of the two boyne perhaps determined upon a quarrel aar had armed himself wit with a lb iong ng knife and as both became ver very y angry he drew it and flourished the knife athia athis opponent ho he dared hicks to attack him at the same nine time advancing himself and threatening to cut hicks open the latter attempted to take the knifa knife away from him and while engaged in the scuffle boyne stabbed hicks making a most wicked thrust the knife cut through two woolen shirts and entered the body about eight inches below tho the breastbone breast bone and extended upwards some seven inches to a point int js just above the pit of the stomach h so frightful and so wicked was wag the cut that it left the incest intestines ines visible for about four inches the gaping wound required eight stitches to close it up and dr C carrington arrington of farmington who was called culla in and who is attending the unfortunate man did all be done 11 hicks icks at last reports was in a IL very critical condition he is about 24 years of age and bears a good reputation thereabouts A eoon soon as boyne had stabbed hicka flicks he lie turned tamed and ran away and is still at largo large what steps have been taken to secure his arrest w do not know S L herald |