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Show THUG ATTACKS CHEF II WH SALT LAKE. Oct. IS. Chief Harlow Har-low savs there are on ihucs and thieves in Salt l ake City. Theiv were no robberies or holdups last night. For instance I F r four hours U I,. Koyce, a chef at the Vienna cafe cn Main street, laid I unconscious in ilie rain in the alley i In the rear of the cafe Slugged, rob-I rob-I I..., and left fur dead. Tb's Is the ex-prih ex-prih nee of Koce. Roce bad been drinking jesterday. He admits it At about 7 o'clock in th? evening l.e was through work an, I because be-cause he had been di inking he left the restaurant by the rear door. NUM Manager Ca-'ey of the place opened the back gi.te for him. ThU gate- is kept locked until afte r 0 o clock each e vening, but Itoyce had explained that be was drinking a litt'e and didn't want the had management to know of it. so he left by the back way. No sooner bad Mr. Casey closed the gale on Koycc when be says lie was aceosled bv a limn. He could not tc-ll I what he looks like, as it was very I vla:k. The man spoke to him in an nn-I nn-I di-rtone. and then before he realized 1 it. Fo ce says he was hit square in 1 the face and lost consciousness When h' awoke he was lying j sprawied ncrriss the alley. Ills face ;md clothes were covered with blood. He si-arched bis pockets and found that ?S in muiK-y w. ;e gone b?.cid?-5 a v:-l.iabl" diamond stick pu He stac J pered to Ida Pet half dazed and made i his wav to his room at the Wabash. The matter was 'reported to the po lice. Inn It was suppressed and not given enit to anyone today. Sticks to His Story. The management of the Vienna for some rea.-on are trying to belittle Royce's story. They, however, cannot can-not account for the terrible brluses on the mill's face and head An at-I.Kbe at-I.Kbe of the restaurant states Unit Royce v as drinking soinewlinl jestei-rlav jestei-rlav but denies that he was In such ronditioii ii; to concoci such .1 story or to b:.e inflicted the wounds himself. I Roce slicks firmly to bis s'"'ry of the affair and tells It ' wit h-nit falte ring , " wanti-, to 'o out Uk- back way," j he says, 'bi-eause I had lnr-n drinking soin.. and didn't want Mr. Mnck to know. I called Mr. Casey and he opened open-ed (be j:;. Next door 1 saw several people walking across the viaduct of The Trlbun? as I stepped Into the nl-j ley I could see them because it was lifrht there. Suddenly a inun stepped up to me and mumbled l. himself He carried nmr. kind of a weapon. Ik-fore I knew it he bad struck nie and I knew nothing until I uwoke some houis later soaking wet and with my moii'-y and pin pone. Kmployos at this restaurant and thesi- in the vicinltv believe Royce's st..ry implicitly. They slr;ff at the Idea of hirn fallinK or telling an untruthful un-truthful storv. Royce's condition Justifies Jus-tifies his story, lie is budly beaten up A man who morns near him corroborates cor-roborates the stoj-y he tells by stating that Rnyeo U him the pnme story when he appeared all bloody at the-rooming the-rooming houyo lai n'cht. To quote the chief of police, ' there are no ilnigs In . Salt Lake." . Royce though asks where the police wero who pat red the alley or are supposed 10 dei so. "Where were thev," he asks, "as I laid there for four hours?'' |
