Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-03-08
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A FIGHT FOR LIFE.
A Woman Attacked by q Msdman and
Comes on Victorious, Nearly Chok.
fnG Him To DEATH

A Woman Attacked BY Madman and
Comes on Victorious, Nearly Chok.
ing Him to Death.
II was fight for life. Tho combatants
were Mrs. Mary Peterson and mailman,
who gives ths name Of Albert Jensson, and
says he IL from Michigan. The sffray oc-
CURED In Mrs, PetersOn's kitchen In Chi.
cago on Thursday evening. Weary Of her
days work, Mrs. Peterson sat by the
kitchen fire 70 await the coming Of her
husband. Tho evening meal was on the
table. She had waited, perhaps. half an
hour, when the front door opened. Sup
posing II TO be her husband, she got up 70
greet him. Before she reached the hall
door 1t was thrown violently open, and q
strange man, with wild, fierce glare In his
eyes, confronted her.
For moment the two stood facing each
other. the woman almost paralyzed with
fear and the madman gloating over his In
he drew q revolver, and, leveillng It at her
head, fred. She sprang to one side, and
then, with q bound like tiger, clutched
him by the throat. It was fight for life,
and even the madman, with his awful
strength, could not loose her grip. In
vain did he strike her with his re-
yolver. He tried to bring the muzzle in
brains out, but she hugged him 10 closely
that he could not, and the weapon was
again discharged into the wall She clinched
her hands the tighter. His eyes began to
start from their sockets. His face changed
from red to livid purple, and his tongue
rolled out as he gasPed for breath. The
veins OF his forehead swelled almost to
bursting, but the woman held on. Her life
depended on hor grip.
Back and forth across the room they
struggled. Chairs were overturned and
the table set for supper was upset. The
mailman had ceased TO strike her, and ali
his efforts were to break her grasp on his
throat. He began to weaken. At last the
blood spurted from his nostrils, and the
sight of this was more than the poor woman
could stand. She relaxed her hold and
fed from the house to the nearest neigh
bors, and the police were called. As soon
as he was free from Mrs. Petterson's grasp
the mailman skunk to the attic of the house
In short time the Hinman street patrol
wagon arrived, and Officer Birmingham
went up to the top Of the house to fetch the
maniac down. II was no easy matter. The
fiend had partially recovered his strength
from the frightful choking and was ut bay
in dark corner of tho attic. Fortunately,
In the struggle the fellow had dropped his
revolver. As soon rs the officer entered
the dimly lighted room the maniac made .
rush for him. Then came another fight,
but the officer was fresh and tho inadinan
badly wlndcd from the struggle he had
with Mrs Peterson In the kitchen.
As he closed In on the officer tho maniac
gave hoarse yell, that sounded moro like
n roar of wild beast than like human
cry. Tho officer finally threw the fellow,
and no was manacled and taken to the
Hinman street police station. Here he be.
camo moro quiet. Nothing could be
learned from him, however, further than
his name was Albert Jensen, and that he
escaped from Michigan insane asylum.
Amer closely examining him no was TAX on
to tho detention hospital.