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Show in STUBS 101 TRAVELER Crazed Alien Attacks G. S. Acker-man Acker-man At Twin Falls Without With-out Warning TWIN FALLS Idaho. March 14. "5 S. Ackerrn.i n. traveling salesman for Shurman Brother' wholesale skirt and coat house of Des Moines. Iowa, was stabbed in the head here late yesterday yes-terday by 8 Mexican whom the police authorities believe to he mentally unsound un-sound Ackorman is in a local hospital in a precarious condition and physicians say that recovery is unlikely. Sur-. Sur-. goons are preparing tonight for a trepanning tre-panning operation- According to PeTSOOS In the vicinity ! when ihe Slabbing took place, tho assault as-sault was unprovoked. Ackerman had juvt alighted from a train that had come in from the east and was standing on Main avenue, in tho heart of the business section, when the Mex-n Mex-n an approached. He held .i l.iMchor knife In one band, and. according to witnesses, he drove the knife into the salesman's forehead, just above the right eye. the blade of the weapon piercing the bone and 8 part of the brain. The optic nerve was severed, physicians say. and a part of the man's brain was oozing from the wound when he was picked "P. The assailant, whose namo Is not known, calmly walked across the street after the assault, rolled a clg-arel clg-arel and watched his victim being taken tak-en to the office of a physician, He is In the county Jail. no |