The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-25
WOTEN IS GIVEN
TERRIBLE BEATING
John &. Weaver Goes After
Lawyer With a Heavy
Cane.
STICK RED WITH BLOOD
WHEN MEN ARE PARTED
Attorney Probably Owes Life to
Interference of Detective
Wheeling.

j. W. Woteu, an attorney, and j. G..
Weaver, local newspaper man, who,
it is commonly known, are bitter enc
mics, engaged in onesided street fight
Tuesday afternoon about 4:45 'clock.
In the parlance of the ring, ''thcrc was
nothing TO it but Weaver, from the tap
of the gong The fight occurred in
front of the Commercial National bank
building, and Woten was given n Sc
we're boating. Weaver is said to have
used q cane ou Woten, and would have
injured him much moro seriously than
he did had it not been for the inter
ference of bystanders.
Woten and Weaver have come much
into notoriety Of late by their attacks
upon each other through the medium
of the courts. Wotcu first had Weaver
arrested upon O criminal libel charge,
and Weaver retaGated by having Woten
arrested upon n battery charge of a
most serious nature,
Fast and Furious.
The two men met Tuesday afternoon
in front of the Commercial bank build
ing, and without delay Weaver raised
his cane and struck Woten over the
=
into the Commercial building, using an
umbrella in an attempt TO ward off the
blows being rained upon him. AS he
passed through the swinging doors OF
the building be lost his footing and
fell. Weaver followed him into the
building, springing upon him, grabbed
him by the throat with one hand and
kept beating him with q cane in the
other hand.
Detective Wheeling of the police de.
partment, who was walking along East
Second South street at the time, saw
the trouble and went into the building
TO stop the fight. Those who saw the
fight say that WoteD shouted for help,
saving: "Take him away, or he viii
eat me up,
Wheeling Interferes.
Detective Wheeling took hold of
Weaver and pulled him off Woten.
Weaver, IL is said, made the remark
that ii he was left alone Woten would
never have u chance TO trouble another
man s wife and children.
No sooner had Detective Wheeling
separated the two men than Notep
jumped up, grasped the cane from
Weaver and sprang into the elevator
closing the door after him and request
ing the elevator boy. to put on the
power and raise the cliff,
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left eye and with Several large bumps
on the top of his head, went To the
fourth floor, where he rambled about
the hall in a dazed condition until n
man who knew him went 10 his aid. An
attempt was made TO have Woten leave
the building and 90 TO a doctor aud
have his injuries cared for, but be ex-
pressed himself as afraid TO leave,
thinking that perhaps Weaver was wait
ing outside and would kill him. Later,
however, mis- fears were overcome and
he went home.
Cane Covered with Blood
The cane with which Weaver strucl,
Woten was one made from pieces of
bone, with steel rod run through them,
and with d head as large as an egg
also OF bone. The cane was bent In
several places and spattered with blood
Weaver, after being taken off Woteu
by the detective. was told TO 90 his
way without causing more trouble,
which he did.
What legal proceedings. if any, will
be taken in the matter is a question
which is vet 10 be answered, The
trouble between the. two men caused
quite a crowd 10 collect. and without
doubt if Detective Wheeling had not
been present to separate the two men
the result would have been much more
serious.