Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-07-31
THE HAIR CLIPPER AGAIN
Mysterious New Yorker Who Is
a Terror to Young Women.
NELLIE LOST ONE BLACK BRAID.
She Was Standing In n Crowd About n
Street Preacher, When She Heard the
Snip of the Clippers shears, and Then
She Missed Half Her Hair.

Street Preacher. Whom She Heard the /
Snip OF the Clippers shears, and Then |
She Missed Half Her Hair.
NEW NOEK. July 3i.-The man who clips
gu1s' hair in the streets appeared last |
night at an outdoor gospel meeting on the |
southwest corner of Eighth avenue and
Thirtieth street and cut Off black braid.
one of two belonging to Nellie Mcdonald.
Nellie is 10 years old and lives with and
supports her widowed mother. Their
apartments are on the second floor of the
tenement at Az West Twenty fifth street.
Nellie is short. has good looking face
and black eyes. and her hair-the half that
is left Of it's raven black and unusually
long. She worked As house servant in a
family at dti> Eighth avenue. She is going
to marry Charles kessler. young me
chanic of 30 seventh avenue.
ENellie spent Sunday with the family she
works for. and last evening after supper
set out to walk to her home down Eighth
| avenue. She WORE spotless gown of fig
ured null and iaunty hat.
AS she passed the corner of Thirtieth
| street she was attracted by a group stand
| ing on the corner about street preacher.
| She mingled with the crowd. but took no
| notice of the individual appearance of any
one. She moved into the midst of the
crowd. and thinks now that she was
edged to the front by some person with
/ malice aforethought
Missed One Braid.
Miss Mcdonald became Interested in the
| discourse of the missionary. and although
| she remembers now that she hc<l a click
as of pair of shears, she paid no attention
4 to it then. \ moment afterward when
i she turned to 20 she felt, a. she says, that
something was wrong with her hair. She
| had had it done up in TWO long braids.
They were rolled up and punched tight
against the back of her head.
| There were two lunches and she found
| that the bunch on the right side was gone,
Instinctively she looked on the ground and
saw her hair lying there loose. She was
frightened, she says. and picking up her
hair. hurried off without saying word to
anybody.
She ran straight to the house Of her
sweetheart and told him about her loss.
| He took her to the West Thirtieth street
station house. where they saw Sergeant
Sheehan. The girl said Il man had stood
on one side Of her in the crowd and 4 WON
an on the other.
| She could not even remember whether
the man was on her right or left. or any
l lining hbOuI hAul E'LlV SsAi1 SIG LltANA llNA al
enemy in the world and could not thinl
of any reason why anybody should want
| to ruin her hair.
| Mr. Richard J. Owen. the leader of tn,
meeting. said the incident must have &C
| CURED on some other corner. Policeman
| Wuertzfelder, who had the Thirtieth stree
| post, looked through the crowd for sus
| picious characters. but could not find any
He also talked with several persons il
1 he fol- IA,
had seen the affair. 1t appears that tn
| crowd was totally undisturbed by the in
cident, and the services Were continued IN
. | til the close without interruption.
Il On the night of July 1 Miss Ami
| O'Neil. who lives in West Forty-eightl
street. had her hair c ped by a man a
Forty-cighth street Eighth avenue