The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-11
ROW RESULTS IN
FATAL INJURY
innocent Bystander Will Die
From Force of Missile In
tended for Another.
TWO FIGHTERS ARRESTED
sHERIFF's POSSE SEEKS OTHER
PARTICIPANTS IN QUARREL.

Frank cisco, boilermaker employed
at the United States smelter at Bing-
ham junction, is dying at the hospital
at Murray, as the result of murder
GUS attack by unknown men early yes
terday morning.
Stephen Luckicie a bartender in a
Bingham Junction saloon, is being held
at the county Jail on the suspicion of
being the aSsailant, and Peter Krouers,
an employee of the Smelters at Bling
ham Junction, Is held as a witness.
The men were arrested early yesterday
by Deputy Sheriff Ira Beckstead and
brought to this city last night by
Sheriff c. Frank Emery and Deputy
Sheriff Burbidge, and are being held
at the county Jail without bail pending
the result of the boilermaker's in
juries.
Victim Cannot Live.
Physicians in attendance upon cisco
at Murray say that he has no chance
FOR recovery and his death is expected
any minute. In the event of Zisco's
death a murder charge will probably
sbe placed against Luckicie. The coun-
TRY Is being secured in search of the
other participants in the affray, many
of whom disappeared Immediately after
the assault.
cisco was stopping at the hotel at
Bingham Junction, and on looking out
the window saw several men engaged
in a quarrel in front of the saloon
across the street. He went out TO see
what the trouble was and had no sooner
mixed with the crowd when he was
struck in the head with a rock hurled
by one of the participants in the row,
and probably intended for some one
other than cisco.
The missile struck him on the left
side of the head, putting out his left
eye and fracturing his skull. He fell
unconscious to the street and was car
ried to the hotel by witnesses of the
assault, while the participants fled. He
was afterwards taken to Murray where
an examination showed that the victim
was suffering from a fractured skull
and conclusion of the brain and that
there was no chance for his recovery.
Two Men Are Arrested.
In the meantime Deputy Sheriff
BeckStead had been notified and after
hearing the story of witnesses, arrested
stephen Luckicie the bartender of the
saloon in which the row started, and
who. II is claimed threw the rock that
inflicted the fatal wound. Krouers, the
witness. who was also taken into Gus
tody claims to have also been the vic
tim OF the quarrel, and has a large
bump on his head which he says was
caused by rock hurled by one of the
men involved in the fight
The original quarrel It is said start
ed in the saloon between the bartender
and another man for whom the police
are now searching, over q poker game.
According to the story cleaned by
Sheriff Emery from the men who We're
in the saloon at the time, the bartender
claimed that the other man owed him
$40, and on his refusal to pay it the
row was precipitated. The barroom
habitues took sides in the ARRAY and
the free-for-all fight was carried to the
street in front of the saloon.
cisco Is a Foreigner
cisco is AZ years old and has been
employed for the past two years by the
United States Smelter company at
Bingham Junction. He is known as a
sober and Industrious man and one who
never mixed in the quarrels of the other
smelter employees.
He is a native of Austro-Hungary
and he's wife and four children living
at BUDAPEST, Hungary. He has been
IN America four years, working for two
years before coming to Bingham June
ton in boiler works at Philadelphia.