This newspaper article describes an attack on a young black couple in downtown Salt Lake City on April 12, 1918. Thelma Steward and Wallace Thurman were beaten by a group of U.S. soldiers who fled to Fort Douglas after the attack. The Rev. George Hart, who led Calvary Baptist Church, accused the police of not doing their duty in investigating the soldiers. Hart and other members of the black community were spurred by the incident to start a chapter of the NAACP in Salt Lake City. Steward would join as one of the first officers of the new chapter. This article appeared in the Salt Lake Telegram on April 18, 1918.