The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-04-30
MRS. ENcEL's BRAVE FIGHT.
She Gives Battle to n Thief and Receivers
Part OF His Booty.
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Lieutenant John Engel closed his barber
shop and billiard room at twelve o'clock
last night, and, with his two young sons,
walked to his home in Cottage place, two
blocks distant. When he opened the front
door he discovered the apparently lifeless
body of his wife lying in the hall. Her
dress was disordered and torn, her long
hair was disheveled and partly hid
death.pale face. Her right wrist was
marked as though it had been in q wise;
but the fingers clutched the brass handle
on the lid of box.
Scattered about the floor were number
of crisp new five-dollar National bank
notes, and near an open window at the DOT
of the stairs was large white bundle.
Lieutenant Engel and his sons carried the
unconscious woman to the parlor, where,
after careful treatment, she revived. Her
first words were:
"Is the money safer"
After time she was able to give par.
tally coherent statement of desperate
struggle with a thief who had evidently
been secreted in the upper part of the
house for some hours before she discovered
him. Mrs. Engel said her niece, a young
lady, had retired early with the little chill
dren, leaving her employed in the house.
hold duties. < At an hour which she could
not definitely designate she, too, started to
go up stairs to look after the infant child.
She went through the parlor, and when she
| H. ioo Il J;,,r, balI oh
confronted by a man standing ON the
airs, n ar the foot with large bundle
| in his right hand and her husbands money
box under his left arm. Mrs. Engel is a
muscular German woman, whose courage
and presence OF mind were fully attested
| few years since, when she beat off rufiian
who attacked her in secluded snot. q.
| She promptly gave battle to thein ruder.
| SEEKING the handle of the money box, she
endeavored to wrench it from the mans
grasp. He dropped the bundle, and
| fierce struggle followed. Grasping her by
the hair, he beat her head several times
best she could from her disadvantage OF
position, the thief being above her on the
stems.
Finally he endeavored to break her hold
| OF the box by twisting her wrist At this
point of the struggle a noise outsi 10 leo
| her to believe that her husband was re-
turning, and she called loudly for him,
still clltching the box with one hand.
The man dealt her a fierce blow on the
breast at the same instant the lid OF the
box broke open, and Mrs. Engel fell to the
foor She heard the window open, but re-.
nembered nothing afterwtrd until revived
by the family. lE8.
Lieutenant Engel says the box contained
S20l in new five-dollar bills. As only
eighte en- of tho bills were found 1t is sup.
posed the thief carried Off twenty-five of
them in his hasty fight. The bundle
which he lett consisted OF silverware and
wearing apparel, including Lieutenant En-
gels uni orm, IN all valued at about 500
Owing TO the noise OF the high wind Mrs
Engel's outcries were not heard even by
her niece. Although suffering from pain
and nervous shock Mrs. Engel was able to
receive the congratulations of her friends
to-day. She says the attack and struggle
were so sudden and fierce, and she was
grasped In such manner by her hair that
sue did not observe the thiet's appearance
further than to see that he was Of low stat
ur6 and stout build. He did NOS speak
word during the fight.