New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-03
ANNIE SMITH IMPROVING.
NO LIGHT YET THROWN UPON THE WAY IN WHICH
SIZE WAS HURT


No new discoveries were made yesterday III the
case OF Aunie Smith, tue girl who was mysterlousLy
wounded on Tuesday in her fathers house. on .no
Richmond road, Staten Island. II. D. Smitn, .no
girls father visited the police station at oap1t
in the morning and complained 10 captain Diaho y,
the stories that had been told OF him anu us
relations Ivy the newspapers. be had peen ~; sioS ~
msTepresente, lie SAID IN interviews WIN ~.
Mullen whom he had Threatened 10 prosecute
Later in the day he was Visited ny IhIpo .nt .
porter 10 whom lse made rhe~ioiio"ne ei|'e i
have been a victim tor years OF unhappy uonle'
tic relations The nor of an English gentemsn l
married IN ST. Louis. after short acquaintance, w
H. Nullen;s SISTER Anne, ana came 70 in,o 1;t ~ Nv
ton. With her spent very unnapPy me. n.s
children we're Taught 10 deceive me anu nv rIouoy
was waste IN whiskey. She died III Decemoer'
1873 aud then assumed controi Oh the CnIi"' IN
I fonnd them incorri gbe. The two boys were Tue
worst on Staten Island. In lS|1' one on .nen,
Donald o. was convicted at Richmond OF 'heI', anu
the oiber Pprcival H., was quite az bad but UPON
I'm. understanding hat they should be sent Nest
NV the Children's Aid Society, Judge Barnard ui,,
not commit hem At Christmas, ~ they came na n
aud wanted 10 loaf on inc. MIS-. Smltn, NV pIcs
ent wife, pleaded so hard Tor ihem that gave .nen'
chance but they returned 10 theli VICIOUS Gun
panions discarded them. Mullen J. ban, proluv,
of NV first wIfe When he was realizing law he llVed
with me and never paid one dollar lot oohiu anJ
vet upon toe first ~ at gave hlm he cnea
me- and called him scOundrei. Ever since nc nsS IA
been NJ enemy. There Is no truth about NY ah.,
Treatment of the boys and as for MIS- sunni spo
has been better friend 10 them than thelr oH ~
mother WIS. When the boys came Dack run ON, no
West they wanted TO take Annie. but as they nan uo
muney would not coasent. Ii was = cioch III 'no
morning when they came 70 ~ q Anne; that u WY
/ would not let them her. court the iulies' NJ
vestigAtion in the matter OF the mystery. % To-
been no ill-trest.Ient of the girl in fact sue h"s
been petted all her life" .,od
Mrs Smith said that the doctor had coinplhv,nt,
her upon her skill nurse. She mad done an sue
conld for Annie. she SAID. and sue was very h,nou
hurt by the stories that had been told oil her NIT.
Spits theory of the explosion is that tue gir "n,e
playing picked up n Cartridge and threw IL OH INC
fire. .,L
The kitchen 10 which the explosion Is said to have
taken place in in the basement. IL is large loo'
with stone steps leading ont OF doors There rs an
ordinary range in tn. room Inch 10 be sound
The dress that tue girl wore at the time was OF
Qlppham. There is a hole III II abuut two inches 10
diameter at the spot ~here the missile entered, the
edges of which are irregular and charred.
At first vrIy little Eope Was entertainer OF tne
girls recovery; but she has rallied from the snock
and now shows signs of Improvement. Alhough
she had been restless feverish during the night
when Dr. ODea visited her about noon vest erday he
declared that her condition was more tavorabe'
Later no told Coroner Ambrose that II the ehild
condition continued favorable. he wonld en-
deayor TO extract the missile to-day CaptaiL Blake
has succeeded IN discovering nothing more IMAM he
knew al first. and District Attorney Gallagher He-
clarel last night that there no excnse Tor inter
ference on mis- part C0tOner Ambrose VIII he pres
emf to-day when the aJteu p is made to extract tue
missile Few persons believe that 1T can De any
thing but a bullet