The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-10-15
THE WORK OF FIENDS.
Joseph Braun Assaulted ant
Robbed.
After Being Horribly Mutlated, He is Thrown
Into the Ontario Hotel Excavation
TO Die.

Within the shadow Of the Federal build
ing last night and at sn hour when the
streets were crowded with people Joseph
Braun. real estate man and money lender,
was beaten nigh unto death, his pockets
rified of large sum of money and his
watch, and his senseless body thrown into
the Ontario hotel excavation.
At about 10 o'clock as number of pedes-
TRANS We're passing the high fence that
shuts the hotel foundations off from West
Temple street they heard faint groans com
ing from the deep. pit like hole on the OPP
posite side of the fence.
HORRIBLE SIGHT.
An investigation led to horrible sight.
Lying face downward and but few feet
from the edge Of the roadway, in the rear
of the possoffice, was the body Of man,
his clothes torn and disarranged, the scalp
literally torn from his ht ad and hanging by
shreds, with wounds and gashes in his face
AMI neck filed with clolJed and slowly
oozing blood. The man was in comatose
condition, and as SOON as possible his dis
coverers had him removed 10 the residence
of DIR. Parkinson who made Ga examination
of nis condition, and after an hours work
succeeded in restoring him to conscious
condition. 1t was but q brief one, how
ever. and he soen relapsed into state of
insensibillty.
THE MANS STORY
During the interval of consciousness,
however, he stated his name and place of
residences; also that he had been to West
Jordan to inspect piece Of land offered
him for purchase From the disjoluted
statements made it was gathered that
Braun had returned, reaching the vicinity
of the Dooley block shortly after o'clock
That as he was passing the opening be-
tween the Dooley block and tho fence sur
rounding The Ontario hotel excavation, he
was attacked by two men, who first struck
him to the ground with q heavy instru-
ment Braun endeavored to rise to his
feet, but was repeatedly struck down. The
supposition is that his body was then
DRAGGED INTO THE ALLEYwAY
a few feet and after rif1ing his pockets of
nearly 5000 and valuable gold watch he
was pitched into the excavation and left to
die. That murder as we'll as robbery was
intended is shown by the character of the
victims wounds and the fact that his
resistance was but feeble one at best
After dressing his wounds DR. Parkin-
son had Braun removed to his home ct 233
West tirst South. His condition can not
be well told until he RECEIVERS from the
first shock, but that it is extremely critical
the doctor has no hesitation in saying.
THE MYSTERY SURROUNDING THE ATTACK
is deep one but it is added to by the
peculiar circumstance that two OF
his friends VINO were with him
during the evening and who came to the
doctors residence shortly after Braun's
removal there utterly refuse to make any
statement concerning the affair even to the
police officer on the beat. At Braun's
place of residence last night fat denial
was also made TO HERALD reporter tina,
any such man lived there.
The affair will be fully Investigated today
If Braun's condition will warrant his talk
ing. At2 o'clock this morning he was
still in comatose condition and apparently
suffering greatly from his wounds.