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Show j sault to murder was placed against his j name on the pnsoii register. Tiibune Serious Cutting Affray A serious cutting allray occured in Dick Jenning's saloon on East First South street, near Main Salt Lake last night at 10 o'clock, the victim being William Elton.a section boss on Ihe San TeteValley Railroad.and the knife wiel der William Trixes whose title name is said to be Wedlock a Cottonwood miner who arrived in this city yesterday. Trizes had just knocked down a man named Robert Watts when Elton, U.-.vid Ma-comher Ma-comher and Ro'ieit Karrin entered the sal ion and Watts appealed to them lor protection, Klton expostulated with Trizes, but the drunken bully seized him by the collar and threw him to one side. Mocomber then inteifened and was in turn seized by Trizes, who drew a wicked-looking wicked-looking kuile and started alter him. Elton then rushed between them, when Trizes caugh him by the throat with his left hand, reached over his sholder with his right and plunged the knile into his victim's vic-tim's back, causing a serious hut not dan-gerious dan-gerious wound over the first lumbar vertebrate, vert-ebrate, Befjre the miner could complete h s'murderous work bystanders interler-ed interler-ed aud subsequently Elton's friends took him to thepolice station where his wound was attended to bv Dr Meacham, Owing to to the loss of blood Elton fainted w hile being treated, but soon revived sufficiently to be taken to his room at 646 West Fiist South street. Oflicets Birkuer and Poole were attracted at-tracted to the saloon by the disturbence, and placed Trizes under arrest lor drunk enuess, not knowing at the lime that he had deen engaged in a cutting afiiay. Upon his arrival at the atation he was dentined by Elton, and acharge as as- |