Daily Republican., 1881-02-12

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On the south side OF Cepgl ess street,
Jersey City Heights, stands . schSei q
house almost as large as tho big school
houses in this city. 1t takes up The
whole block between Central and Cam
bridge avenues. There are ST present
about 700 pupils in attendance there,
and the number Of teachers ia twenty
two. George +. Scbaefsr lives near Con-
gress street, in Hancock avenue, almost
within . stones throw Of the school.
house.
A little before l2J o'clock on Wed
nesday last Mr.. Sob aefsr's l2-yeSr-old
daughter Katie was on her way 10 this
school, having seen home to lunch.
When she reached the corner Of Congress
street and Cambridge avenue, aud was
within q few steps Of the school house
door, q fierce. looking, shabbily-dressed
man, evidently sIsmp, came alonG
and seized her around the waist, clap
ped something over her mouth SO that
she could not scream, and started OF
with her through vacant lot This
was dene in full view OF the windows
Of about q dozen stores and houses, and
while scores of children were playing
in the streets near by. The man must
have carried the girl past at least a
hundred or more houses, sndyet no one
interfered. The man kept in the vacant
lots as nuoh as possible and in rear Of
the houses. The little girl says that he
passed through one street right ii front
of all the houses. She saw one lady
standing on front stoop looking at
them. Katie says she heokoped to the
lady with her fingers, bu! the lSdy did
not seem to understand.
After going in the direction OF the Ho-
boken Ferry long enough to get past all
the houses the man turned TO the night,
went over the hill and of toward the
BscksBsack meadows. He crossed the
tracks of ths Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western Railroad and took the girl
to secluded spot. There he assaulted
her aad robbed her Of earrings, breast.
pin aud sscque.
The girls story may be given in her
own words.
Gas We walked along" she said,
she kept his arm around me tight, and
almost carried me. Something was
over my mouth all the time, so that l
couldn't scream. When We got 10 the
place where he stopped, remembered
that | had been in the place once before
in the summer time. was struFgling
sill the time to get sway from him. By
and by, after he had taken my jewelrY
and my ssque, got away and ran as
fast as could. He ran after me. Just
as ! crossed the railroad track, | fell in
a snow bark. | scrambled in the snow
but he held on to me and took of my
shoes, because he thought | couldn't
run then. Pretty soon | got away.
sgain and ran as fast as could He
chased me, He was big man and
could't run very fast. | did't know
which way to run to get ont Of the
place and that made me afraid that he
would catch me again. was almost
crazy. thought l could keep on run
ming, any way.
when ! came to long, clear place
| ran across the lots so fast that l
didn't hardly feel the ground. II
seemed Just as i: was flying. After |
had been running a long time | came 70
a high place where ! could see some
houses. started toward the houses.
| got courage and ran even faster than
before. When was almost to the
houses looked around and saw the
man had turned and was running an
other way TO get away from the houses.
l began to cry very hard and felt very
weak, bat kept on running till | got
to where the houses were. By and by
got tc where / remem bered the places.
1t was up toward West HOboken. My
feet were wet and sore from running
ever the ice without any shoes. BY
and by saw Minnie Webberly and she
brought me home"
1t was 430 o'clock when the girl
reached her home, SO that she had
been gone little more than four
hours. Katie said that the man WAS
poorly clothed, and had big red whis-
kers. There was hole In the side Of
his hat, as if it had been made with q
stick. This was about all the descrip.
ton that she could give Of him, except
thai he WAS very fierce looking.