Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-10-12
HE USED A KNIFE OR RAZOR.
Can't Tell Which Because Deed Was
Done so Quickly and Man lmmedi
ately hurried Southward,
DID NOT COME FROM BEHIND.
Chief Of Police Thinks Fellow Was
Either Mistaken or Crazy Woman
Witness Badly Wanted.

The sensational assault on Miss Mary
Burton which occurred ON Monday
afternoon ON East Temple street. is stll
shroudod Iu the deepest mystery.
The police say they know nothing
about IL beyond what appeared IN last
evenings News"
The sherins office offers no solution
TO the mystery
About the only fact that seems 10
have been definitely established. is that
the young lady WAS cut. unless It is
that the wound Is not So serious us was
at arst supposed. The attending ply
sIcian says that while the cut il natur-
ally painful it is not necessarily dam
gerous The fact that &c rs not deep
cut does not mean that the girl dld noe
have a very narrow escape, for she cer-
talnly did But who did 70? No one
seems able 10 tell,
Az EYE WITNESS FOUND.
An eye witness to the assault has
been found lu the person Of John Madl-
sob, d "a year old boy residing al 1903
north Second West street lie says be-
was standing ON the curblng when
Miss Burton passed While be Is not
sure, be thinks that the man who as
slulted her was walking toward her,
and dld not approach from behind.
The boy says all he saw was the mans
arm shoot out and that the hand held
a knife or razor The next thing he
saw was the girl put her hand TO her
face and hurry up the street. while the
assauant went In the opposite direction
rapidly Madison declares that he only
got "a heetlng glance Of the man. and
that he would not know him II he
should see him again.
POLICE ARE ANNOYED
This is all the police have been able
to discover Chief Lynch. Captain Bur
bIdge and the detectives feel greatly
annoyed TO put It mildly that the mat
ter was not reported to them immed-
ately. as IT should have been done, and
they are at loss 20 understand the
reason for the delay, The FIRST they
heard Of the affair they learned from a
News reporter yesterday morning
Chief Lynch stated that about
o'clock yesterday afternoon while he
was ia the Western Arms store. Mr.
Burton, the girls father walked IN and
said.
SEE GIRLS FATHER,
" have been looking for you since
Yesterday afternoon. My girl was muir
lerously assaulted on Main street"
81 asked him. said Chief Lynch this
morning. "where he had looked for
me- because had been at
headquarters practically all day
md until 10 O'Clock last night I
told him that he could not have looked
very far or long. and also that I WAS
talking with Capt. Burbidge and
News reporter az II o'clock la the
morning. Mr. Burton told me that
after he reported the matter TO Deputy
he asked the latter 10 report
ne matter TO the police at once, and
hat Wilkinson promised 10 DO so.
Vow, all this seems strange 10 me-.
Why were we not notified? What good
0uld any one hope 10 accomplish by
.e6ping us Do the dark? Just as soon
IS we learned Of Il ! sent Detectives
'hase and Burt TO the Burton home 10
but they could tell the OH
crs absolutely nothing beyond the fact
has the girl had been assaulted We
ave no description Of The man. and In
1y opinion the assailant thought Miss
burton was someone else, or he Is some
uzy fellow II must be one OF the
wo. do not think that Ii was done
s. accident
CRAZY OR MISTAKEN.
TINE detectives are an OF the same
lind They believe that the fellow Is
ither crazy, or that he thought his
lutIW was some one else. According
b their statements this morning. Miss
.urt0n Is not absolutely sure whether
be man approached her from behind
whether he was coming toward her.
ne did not see him until his murder
us hand shot out and she felt the
ufe cut into her 1csh Then the nun
isappeored completely
WHO WAS THE WOMAN
The police are now trying to learn
no the woman Is who stopped Miss
urtou and inquired what The trouble
as Whoever the woman is, she might
q able On throw some light on the
.vsterv Then again, she might not.
But the reason the shennrs force did
lt report the matter 10 the police
lould be explained as the affair has
used considerable feeling. though
herin Emery is in no Wise personally
sponsible for This incident In the case.
q says that ho always has. does now
Id always viii work in fun accord
i'm Chief OF Police Lynch and Capt;
lrbldre. He dld not know OF the case
mself until Yesterday Nevertheless
e police blame Deputy Wilkinson FOR
IS failure 90 confer with them in rela.
pm 90 the matter and one OF them said
day.
what would the people OF Salt Lake
ink m a fireman saw big fire in
ogress aud tried 20 eat the flames. so
speak single handed ana alone. and
n 90 turn 90 am alarm? Would not
4t man ho guhipcfod IA "A goynre atA