St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-30
TWO HEROIC GIRLS.
Je1nie and Mary Gatf Put to Flight
Sable Fiend With Evil Intent.
Especial Telegram to the Globel


New YORK, April 29.-Jennie Golf, nine
teen years old, and her sister Mary, sixteen
years old. are orphans, and live alone in a
cottage in Rossville, on Staten Island. The
sisters own the cottage. Their mother died
five months ago. Both Of them are highly
esteemed. On Sunday night Thomas Will
| son, a colored man, forced open window
and got into their bed chamber. Jennie,
the elder sister, is handsome brunette, five
| feet and inches high, well-developed, and
| muscular. The manner in which she put
the negro to flight was thus told by her to-
day:
My sister Mary and myself have always
| slept in the same bed upstairs Last night
we retired after fastening the doors and win
dows. How long we had been asleep could
not tell when felt myself smothered. l felt
some one strangling me end keeping terri
BILE grip on my throat Then a light was put
in front of my face. I could hardly move
before that, but when the negro, for saw by
| the light he was a colored man, turned to put
the light away, he loosened his grip on my
throat little. 1 expected that it would be
nv last chance for life, but made desper-
ate move sideways and broke his grip.
| Then 1 rose up, and with my clenched
! fist struck the man with all my
strength in the face. He was kneeling on
top Of the quilts, and knocked him off on
the floor. He again sprung upon the bed,
when I hit him a second time, and with the
| other hand / scratched his face so that the
! skin was under my nails this morning. I
| was not bit frightened, but terribly angered.
| AS the man sprang at me the second time
shouted to my sister: Heavens its mig
GER Mary was too much frightened until
she heard my voice, then she screamed as
hard as she could, and so did l. The man
dashed out the light and attacked me third
time I continued to struggle with him, how
ever, and soon / found that my blows were
defeating him. So 1 kept on hitting and
scratching as hard as I could. Our screams
were kept up all the while, and that, with
the resistance, must have convinced him he
| had better leave. He ran to the window of
our room, raised it and began to climb out.
| AS he sprang to the ground I gave him an
| other blow, which caused him to go sprawl
ing headlong. His chin struck an ash can
on the sharp edge. The policeman told me
this morning it almost severed
his windpipe, and he very near
ly bled to death before they caught
him. Then jumped from an attic window
to the ground in my night clothes and ran to
Mrs. Platts house, next door. The two Platt
bows hurried out Blood maks led from the
door to the stairway leading to the cellar.
however, and there they found Wilson, who
was bleeding terribly from large cut in his
throat, and he was too weak from loss Of
blood to speak at first. They called doctor
and sewed up the wound. Then he was
brought to the house, and I identified him.
We had until few weeks ago very savage
dog about the house and generally took it in
at night, but it bit man some time ago and
Wilson was employed to shoot and bury it,"
Wilson was arraigned at Rossville to-day
and taken to Richmond county jail, as it was
believed the people might attempt to do yio-
lence to him if he were kept in the neighbor-
hood Of Rossville.