The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-03
I'm MISCREANqS' HANDS
Terrible Experience of
two Young Women Last
Evening.
DRUGGED WITH LIQUOR.
Then Assaulted by Gangs-0ne q
Married Woman the Other
a Girl.

the Hoboken line, last night, two das-
tardly outrages were perpetrated upon
women. In one case a young married
woman, as pretty as picture, was the VIC
tim. She was drugged with liquor by a
gang of young loafers and then dragged
into an open lot, where she was found
with her clothing disarranged surrounded
by about twenty young rowdles. In the
other case an Innocent young girl scarce
ly eighteen years old met with an al
| most similar fate. she is so seriously ill
this morning that fears are entertained
for her recovery.
Chanceman Hennessey was patrollfng
MS beat on Eleventh street last night
ABOUT quarter to twelve o'clock whea
an Ola man, much excited, ran up to him
and said;-
For Gods sake, if you would wish to
save young woman from the hands of q
gang OF young loafers, hurry along"
MOANING AND CRYING.
AS the old man accompanied the police
| man along Eleventh street, he told him
| what he had seen. He said that on
| Eleventh street near Jersey avenue ne
| met three young men and and young
woman. The young woman was moan
| ing and crying, and the young men were
supporting her. She seemed to be
stupid. Behind the young woman
and the young men who were
holding her up, there followed fifteen or
| twenty other young men. The young
men were taking the helpless young
woman towards Jersey avenue, where
there are several open lots
AS Zimmerman Hennessey hurried along
| shrlll scream rent the night air
| Have pity on me-" came the words in
| woman's voice and the policeman could
hear the muttered curses of the gang OF
| young loafers and he ran with all his
might to where the cries proceed ed from.
AS he turned the corner of Jersey avenue
and thirteenth street, he caught
sight of the gang behind the
Erie gas house. The young woman was
| on the ground. The gang saw the polices
man and fed. The policeman gave chase,
but was unable to catch any of them.
The young woman was helpless from the
efrects OF liquor, and was brought to the
police station, where she was booked as
| Mary Doe.
WHIsKEY soURs.
This morning the young woman WAS
arralgned before Justice O'Donneu. 1t
| Was evident that she felt her position
keenly. In answer to the Judges Ques-
tons she said she had been introduced to
some young men by woman friend and
was induced to drink whiskey sours. She
drank and after that ~ sssSsasncasT-.sr1
nothing until she awoke in the police
| station. She said her name was MIS-.
Teer and that she lived at No. 230 Tenth
| street Her husband, a respectable look
| ing Young man, was in court. The udge
| renanded the young woman and will
give the couple talking to. The Judge
said he was sorry that the policeman had
not captured the young loafers, as he
would give them lesson they would re-
member.
A YOUNG GIRLS MISFORTUNE.
Inc other outrage which came to the
notice OF the police was worse, in that
young girl, scarcely eighteen years old,
and respected where she lives, was the
victim. The girls name is Simpson, aud
she lives with her parents at No, 2l1
Tenth street.
The attention of Patrolman Harris was
attracted this morning about quarter to
one O'Clock By woDlan's screams pro-
ceeding from No. 211 Tenth street. The
house is big apartment house and all
the families in it were aroused. One
young woman was on the sidewalk
screaming at the top of her voice.
| AS Harris came running up. she
moaned: Officer, look at the condition of
my sister. She was brought home by two
young loaters just now, and she is help
less from liquor"
The policeman looked in the hallway
and there he saw young girl on the
stairway, helpless In the rear of the
dark hall the policeman deserted two
skulk1ng forms. He instantly dragged
them to the light. AS soon as the young
woman who had spoken to him first saw
tb EN- she became terribly excited
You villains" she screamed, Ito bring
my darling sister home in this con0i.
tiop Officer, do not let them escape"
All efforts made by the policeman and
neigh bors 10 resuscitate the young woman
proved Intellectual and doctor was sum-
moned. He said that the girl was suffer-
ing greatly from shock and she was
unable to appear in court this morn-
ing. The young men who said
they were James Darcy of No. 223
Twelfth street and Edward Crowley of
No. 270 Eleventh street. were arraigned
before Judge O'Donnell this morning.
Patrolman Harris said in court that Inc
young woman's condition was serious
and that she would be unable to appear.
Inc Justice remanded the two young
men to await the result of the girls In
juries.
Patrolman Harris told reporter of THR
JERSEY CITY NEWS that the Simpson girl
had left her home with another girl who
does not bear a good reputation
about eight O'Clock last night, promis-
ling 10 return at ten O'Clock. At
ten O'Clock the girl had not returned aud
her sister waited for her. At quarter to
one o'clock the sister found her in the
hallway drunk with the two young men,
and raised the outcry which aroused the
neighborhood and attracted the police
mans attention.