The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-05
Y. G. GUNNELL
SEVERELY
BEATEN
JUDGE OF JUVENILE COURT is
STRUCK BY T. c. NORRIS.
GunnelI, Disfiguring His Face
Both Sides Interviewed.

Volney c. Gunnell. judge OF the ju-
yenile court, lies at his home on Fow
Ter avenue, suffering considerably
from his injuries received Monday az
ternoon at the hands OF Thomas G..
Morris. painter The judges left eye
is in a serious condition. being badly
swollen with Gaping cut an inch
or more In length directly beneath it
and a smaller one on the brow above.
Witnesses. who were in the adjoin.
ing office at the time of the assault,
and who appeared on the scene mo
ment after the blow was struck. state
that the attack was entirely uncalled
for
Clarence Gunnell. son of Judge Gun.
nell, was interviewed on the subject
and gave his opinion as follows:
This was an outrageous affair and
entirely unproyoked. Father had been
trying to collect some money and, in
conversation over the phone with
Morris the latter accused him of de-
liberately stealing an amount OF mon
ey, something like S25. Father prompt
ly called him a liar. Nothing more
was said until Morris walked into the
J office q short time afterward and, go-
| ing up to father who was seated 1T
his desk, struck him a terrific blow in
the left eye, smashing his spectaclcs
| into a thousand pieces by driving the
glass directly against his eye, cutting
| two gashes. one above and
one below the eye and knock
ed him to the floor In ali
almost unconscious condition. Dr.
| Fidcock states that II was miracle
that the eye was not forced COM
| pletely from It's socket by the blow.
ard how the glass could have been
broken without cutting him severely
| Il is a mystery. There are numerous
small contusions about the eye which
we're probably caused by the broken
| glass. Father was In q semi-conscious
condition off and on all night and
talked incoherently Of business mat
ters for hours after being taken
home"
One Of three persons who were in
an adjoining office when the attack
occurred, stated as follows:
I'VE we're sitting here in the office
and the Judge was out at his desk
writing. The room was perfectly still
when | heard someone come In and.
almost Immediately after, I heard the
sound as of some one falling. My
sirst thought was that the chair which
the Judge uses had come apart as 1t
sometimes does, letting him to the
| floor. | jumped up and went out In
| to the room and saw Morris standing
some feet from the judge. who was
| lying on the floor. AS ! can up to as
sist him, ] thought that perhaps he
had suffered a stroke OF apoplexy and
had fallen to the floor, and that Nor
ris was about to help him. Morris
then mumbled something like: III
| teach him TO call me liar over the
| phone and as the blood began 10
flow from the Judges face, ] realized
tllat Morris had struck him"
Mr.. Morris was later seen in rela-
ton to the occurrence and said:
81 am sorry this thing occurred, but
[ feel that only dfd what most any
one would have done under the cir
cumstances. Gunnell had been doing
some legal business In connection
with some Of the White matters AMI
deliberately appropriated S25 of the
money which should nave gone to my
wife, saying that it was fees. ! called
him up over the phone Monday and
told him what thought about 1t. Ono
word led to another and he finally
called me a d dirty liar,' | told
him l would be up presently and sec
him. When I stepped into the office.
Gunnell was at his desk and | asked
him If he meant what he said when
he called me a liar. He whlrled
around in his chair and jumped up,
and said: Yes, sir, l did. and
struck him about az quick as l could.
and probably as ayone would have
done. / did not see that he had
glasses on. A man, under those cir
cumstanced doesn't usually Inspect
his opponent very carefully, anyway.
IL he had his glasses on. | did not
know 1t, and am sorry, II it is true.
[ must have cut my hand on some
thing and it has been giving me con-
siderable trouble today. Contrary 10
what was said in the Herald and Trib-
une. | was not arrested and taken
over TO the station. AS soon AS ! got
to nv store. / phoned the police sta
ton and told them I had had some
trouble with Gunnell and would be AT
nv place OF business whenever they
wanted me-"
Morris has a badly swollen hand
an6 numerous cuts about one oil the
Enuckles, evidently caused from con-
tact with the broken glass oil Judge
Gunnell's spectacles.
No complaint has been filed as yet.
but 1T Is understood that the Judge
will prosecute Morris to the full ex
tent of the law.