Wild and Wooly Woodside.

Accused of Awful Crime at Woodside

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   Frank Randall of Woodside, aged about 30 years and a ranchman, was taken to the county jail at Castle Dale Monday in default of $2000 bonds demanded by a Green River justice for his appearance for trial at the next term of district court.  Randall is alleged to have attacked John Carswell's wife, the mother of six children, on the evening of March 3.  

   Randall was intoxicated at the time.  Mrs. Carswell was unconscious and incoherent for twenty-four hours after being found and would have died from her injuries had not a posse of citizens found her shortly after the attack.  

   Mrs. Carswell says that she was returning to her home a couple of miles from Woodside depot when she was attacked by Randall, who left her unconscious.  She was found by her husband and neighbors, who had become alarmed at her prolonged absence and instituted search.  A pair of gloves and a bottle of whiskey, said to belong to Randall, were picked up near the place where the victim lay.  

   Carswell was formerly engaged in mining at Sunnyside, but moved to Woodside six years ago.  Randall, it is alleged, is addicted to hard drinking.  He has lived at Woodside nearly all his life. 

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Carbon County News 

March 22, 1912

Mother of six is attacked by Brute
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Evening Standard
(Ogden Standard Examiner)
March 20, 1912