The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29
M BEATEN LIEN POSING
 AS POLICEMEN
|Taltes TO Wocds And Struet Untils lIe Falls
 Une 0llsciols
|stJBaiITs TO sARREeT IT
 HIS sH0P WEDNESDAY,
August Flythutroas Victim Of Attaek, Does Not Know
 Recon For It
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August \ Sm. Finn employed |as foremk hs I,euis Q. Richter company ,, 19121s2 Morris ave nue, T F vas recovering from |bfnisg gA rsfiopss he received 1t III sk f1hrss usknown assailants |~1( 1im to unconscioushess in i |w miles west of Birmingham the 5ici,a night.
 At thi5 1lss TIythstrom declares he WAT waFno1 ID gay nothing of the at ta(k md l6 ssto set out Of town within 48 1o4es at the threat of gioleht de6JE k
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 Tho ene1 1Ault upon Flythstrom followed ship {sestTS < by pseudo prohi- hff3of dfk itek1 n the Rfchterr shop at ( 20 o'cloef Wednesday evening. 4 I1re& men, Of them said to have ban WeIl o1ed, entered the room |Whefe ElyetE Emil Emilson, and lkfss Hukc 9alnf were working late,
 rAe IsfSsss Of the trio, described ~. Elystr0n1 Ne s'A slim fellow about III let tali, walked over to where the 5ereman Yas eneased in pressing q s41t and dl4played small caliber Fs'rs prshibition offieers,'' he is peid to hays announced, s&nd we want zehs Come alone and don't say any Taken In Cars
 IS A second member of the party, "a thort man in yellow brooches, im- |nsdiately covered Flystrom with his gun ehd in this fasfion he was marched down the staiffay to an automobile which was running at the curb. One man climbed into the drivers seat and the other paif crowded him into the teAr Flystrom says, each pressinx their guns in his ribs. Here 10 was blind folded, handcuffed, and Nerned not 70 4elb he says.
 Thu19dty HI5stron1 was not able to fiye the exset location of the woods he was taken to, but says he believes the men drove about the city for several minutes to confuse his sense of gdirec- tiops. There were no words spoken h the car. Flystrofn says, except for @ etk sffSSS@e&XAAHt N%N4H cNut~uY Wucu He
 ss Tied Tc TrSs At the woods they pnshed the tailor from the maehine and tied him to a tree uliepe sns of ti1a mn. ke sl ys.' sfrs,elz iifiar over file eye with the butf oz d revolver and tke others beat him with slender sticks.
 Flythstrom states that everything "got black" and when he regained con- sciousness about an hour later he was lying on the ground.
 After few painful steps his injuries became easier and he was able to walk four miles to a taxi-stand where a machine carried him to his home, 5O2 Sixteenth street, north.
 Flythstrom could not, give any reason for the assault. He declared he had never been in any trouble. with the exception of an arrest for drunkeness several months ago.
 The tailor has been at the Richter shops since last March, coming to Birmingham from Cincinnati. AL though arriving in this country from Finland in 1910 he still speaks broken English. He is unmarried.
 Police authorities late Thursday night were searching for August Flythstrom for an alleged attack with a pair of shears upon Hugo Salmi, 511 Twenty first street, north, fellow workman, at the Richet shop earlier in the eve ming.
 Salmi was taken to the Hillman hospital where his condition, though weak, was not considered serious. His left wrist was found to be badly gashed.