The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-20
SLASHES GIRL
ON MAIN STREET
Roy Scott, a Crazy Boy, Is
Caught in the Act.
ADMITS BURTON CUTTING
CROWD THREATENS IYNCHING
WHEN MAN is ARRESTED.

n boy OF -, thrust knife-blade into
the throat of Miss Elsie GALLAGHER
OH Main street yesterday after
noon about o'clock. and was
captured Immediately afterward
A.ter his capture he ad-
Hiltteu lhitt he was the mysterious as
eaIiaut who cut Miss Mary Burton i'm
Inc throat on Oct 10. Scott Is the son
ot waiter Scott, formerly Of Park Citv.
Dut now OF salt Lake, and well known
III INNING circles. The boy is confined
~ the city prison, offers of bonds hav-
ing Leen refused by Judge c. r. DiehI
= Ilelids OF the family said last night
that an effort would be made to have
lhe prisoner committed TO Provo. where
- properly belongs. and that proof of
MS responsibility could easily be es-
tSDilshed though his homic.daI mania
= Il recent development and had not
day.
scott who was arrested a few sec
onds after the attack OF Miss GALLAGHER.
stateu mat ne was the victim Of an un-
c0htrOiiabie monOmania against which
he had fought without success.
lie is now confined i'm Il cell at the
city prison, and is in an almost hys-
Icrical state. Bonds were sought last
night OF Judge G. b. DiehI by the young
mans father. but they were refused.
Wound is Not Serious.
Miss Gallachers wound. although og
the same nature as that sustained by-
Miss Burton last month. is not as Sc
Iious. owing TO the fact that Scott
was nearly two feet away when he
made the thrust, the knife did not pen
citrate to a sufficient depth to sever any
arteries. although had the course of the +
wound swerved by fraction Of an inch
the blade would have reached the jugu- 3
lar vein
Miss GALLAGHER is the daughter of Mr..
and. Mrs. Alexander GALLAGHER, and re- !
sides with her parents on Terrace ave
nue. near Twelfth South street She IS
Z niece OF Councilman L. D. Martha
and OF John GALLAGHER.
Talks of Lynching.
The girls assailant was pointed out
by her TO Harry c. McKmnis. a clerk
paSSer-by, held Scott until Patrolman +
j. d. Brown came up and took him I
INTO custody. When the hundreds OF .
men and boys on the street learned I
mat Scott was guilty of not only this 4
6ut Of the Mary Burton attack il !
looked for time as though the officer F..
would not reach the police station with .
MS prisoner IN Safety.
Lynch him" was the cry taken up. +
and BY the time officer Brown and
Scott had reached headquarters, a mob /
Of over half thousand was iostling
at their side threatening harm to the
prisoner. When the policeman and his .
captive reached Chief OF Police W. J.
Lynchs Office. Scott was hardly able TO
stand, SO nervous was he and so great
his fear % violence.
Miss GALLAGHER was assisted by sew
eral women 10 a nearby drug store I
where il was ascertained that her in
jury was not serious. She then went
i'm company with her uncle. Council +
man Martin, 10 Chief Lynch's Office.
where she identified Scott as her assail- (.
ant This was unnecessary, however, 4
for Scott had already owned his guilt .
in both cases.
Miss GALLAGHER was then take nto Dr.
[. +. WilcoX's Office, where the incisiOn !
was dressed.
Girl Tells Her Story.
Miss GALLAGHER gave the following ac- /
count OF the cutting:
Il had just left a girl companion /
with whom / had walked from the
Union Paper Box factory, 3S7 South !
Second West street.
4 had been alone only a minute or
two when I was cut. having left a (
Eirl friend with whom ! had walked !
from the factory.
Il was walking north on Main and
first noticed Ihe man. whom | after
ward learned was Scott when / was
between the Lace House and COhn's /
store. / did not notice that he had a
knife or that he appeared to be excited
in any way.
When just opposite me he reached !!
across and seemed to strike me- ] did
not realize al first that I had been
cut. for there was only a singing SEN
satiOn. The next moment. however the /
blood began TO pour out. and I knew
that ] had been stabbed.
Scott started TO walk rapidly away
] pointed him out as the man who had
struck me TO several men who came
TO my aid. When they brought him
up TO me. ] Identified him. and he adj
mitted IL. have never seen nor heard
OF him before"
Young SCOTS Statement.
To Chief Of Police Lynch. Roy scott.
between intervals Of hysterical con-
vulsive shakings. made the following
statement:
Il am simply a victim OF homicidaI
mania, an impulse to attempt life which
] cannot control I can no more eX-
plain why ] should wish to injure
these girls whom | have never seen be-
fore. and against whom I hold no i'll
feeling, than can kleptomaniac why
he should wish TO steal
These attacks. which / cannot eX-I
plain, have been coming on every two
or three weeks for several months
While 7 am under their control. / am
in a highly nervous condition. All
know is that there comes a longing TO
stab, stab some girl have fought
with all my might against IT, I knew
il was wrong. but what could / do?
j got the best Of me.
1T was a feeling that was stronger
than 7. I felt that ] must sometime be
caught but ! had no sense OF danger
while the spells were on. The Burton
case was the first and while 7 knew
there would be danger ia making a sec
ond attack. 1 was impelled TO 81"
Says Son Is Hysterical..
Walter Scott, father of the man under
srrest, said last night when asked
whether Roy Scott ever exhibited any
signs of monomdnia:
For the past three or four years
the boy has been subject 20 attacks of
hysteria, during which he was sbso-
lutely beyond control of himself. For
hours he would laugh and then be
gloomy That he should ever become
subject TO such attacks as these. how
ever. I never would have believed.
He appeared to take only an ordin-
Bry interest in the Burton case. al
though Of course the family never had
he shadow OF a suspicion that ne |
vas I'm any WAY cOnperned wifi, II Dox, 4