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Show JAW OF GIRL1 INJURED BY A MAN i "The blow which dislocated my Jaw wa3 not an accidental one, but was deliberately de-liberately aimed at me by the man who delivered if' This is tbe statement of Miss Esther Stone, 1 53 Twenty-eighth ! street, who was Injured while riding j from Lagoon on a Bat'oergcr train j Monday night. The first reports of the affair were to the effect that the blow J which rendered the young lad passenger pas-senger unconscious was not intended lor her by the mon who struck It, but for another man who stood near Misi Stone Tho young woman, who is now able to talk, denies that such was the ease. She states that he r. i assailant resides at Layton, and that i she would know him if brought face to face with him. Miss Stone hi a pretty young worn- I an. Just kalng ber teens In weight Rhe would not tip the scales at more than enc hundre.d pouiids According to her story, tho man who struck her must hae weighed noarly twice as much as she "I was iti company with Miss Ruble Stanford," said Miss Stone, not hel tatlng to tell the story of how thoi affair In which she was the victim happened. ','Wo were coining homo from Lagoon on' the last car. There was a voung man with us, a friend of Miss Stanford. 'The car was rather crowded and there was considerable Jostling, but no reason why any or' should have considered this the fame of the passengers. Two young I. idles and a young man e banged their places in tho ear. and as the girls passed one of them stepped on my foot. "It rather hurt me and I said to my girl friend, I wonder why she. wouldn't excuse herself.' I was not angry anil did not make the remark thinking that the girl passing would hear. She heard the remark, turned around savagely and called both us girls a violent name. Miss Stanford arose from her peat aud nnld that she would not stand for being InsuKed. At Ibis the girl who had called us the 'name' seized Miss Stanford's hat and tore it from her heai. My chum struck at the girl, but was beaten down in the seat by both of the girls.. I tried to assist my friend, and It was then that the man who was with the girls struck me. I saw him aim his fist at me and then I lost consciousness. conscious-ness. I did not recover my senses until un-til i was at the Bamberger depot in this city. "My Jaw was dislocated by tbe blew from the mans fist, and an X-ray picture pic-ture of it was taken by the physician who reset it. I have not 4ee-n able to get out of the house since the affair and don't know just what action T will take In the matter. 1 am pretty certain that the two girls and the man who hit me live in Layton. I think that I know the girls' names, but I am not sure, so I won't tell them now " Mrs. William Johnson, at whose home Miss Stone is residing, stated that the young lady has been In bed most of the time since fhe was Injured, In-jured, and it was feared that the nervous ner-vous shock might result in a long spell of sickness. |