The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-07-31
HALF HER HAIR CUT OFF.
NELLIE MDONALD HEARD 4 CLICK OF
SHEARS At 4 GOSPEL MEETING.
Then She Turned. She Says, and Found Ono
OF Her Two Long Black Braids Lying nt
Her Feet-The West side Police Puzzled.

Then She Termed. She Says. and Found Ono
OF Her Two Long Black Braids Lying nt
Her Fect--Thc West side Police Puzzled.
The man who clips girls hair in the streets
appeared last night at an outdoor gospel
meeting on the southwest corner OF Eighth
avenue and Thirtieth street and cut of a
black braid. one OF two belonging to Nellie
Mcdonald. Nellio is 10 years old and lives
with aud supports her widowed mother. Their
apartments are on the second floor OF tho
tenement at 435 wost Twenty-nfth street.
Nellie is short. has good blocking 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 family at COS
Eighth avenue. She is going to marry Charles
Kcssler. u young mechanic OF 1857 Seventh
avenue.
Nellie spent yesterday with tho family she
works for and last evening after supper set
out to walk to her home down Eighth ave.
nue.. She wore spotless gown Of figured null
and jaunty hat.
AS she passed the corner OF Thirtieth street
she was attracted by q group standing on the
corner about street preacher. She mingled
with the crowd. but took no notice Of the indi-
ridual appearance Of any one. She moved into
the midst Of the crowd and thinks now that
shc was edged to the front by some person
The outdoor gospel meeting is conducted by
Plymouth brethren, of which Richard J. Owen
is he leader. The brethren hire a hall at 305
lit. chaplain on niaekwell's Island
Miss Mcdonald became Interested in, the
discourse OF the missionary. and although she
remembers now that she heard a click az Of a
pair OF shears. she paid no attentl ion to It then.
moment afterwsrd. when she turned to 20.
wrong with her hn.r. she had had it don up
in two long brnids These were rolled, up and
There were two lunches. and she found that
IN" bunch on the right sido was gone; In
on the and ;lsb
risd on without saying word to anybody.
heart and told him about her loss. He took
her to the West Thirtieth street station house:
said a'mah had stood on one side OF her in the
crowd and woman on the other.
She could not even remember whether the
him. She said she had not an enemy in the
world. and could not think Of any reason why
II was was suggested 18th that she might have wanted
to wear her hair short and have clipped off the
braid herself; 50 as e meet any opposition
Donald denied. She said she would not have
had her hair cut for anything
Thirty-seventh street station. as the clipping
occurred in, that precinct. Cart Price and
Hry end Curry set out to nvet
missionaries knew nothing OF the affair until
told by n Sun reporter
None o.! them noticed anything peculiar
about tho crowd. and all were sure that the
Clipping did not occur at the meeting. Miss
Mr. the that a ID the
ing. said the incident must have occurred on
some other corner. Policeman WuertZfelder,
who had the 1hirtieth street post. look ed
through the crowh for suspicious characters
but could not find any.
He also talked with several OF tho persons
in the crowd. but failed to get an yhody who
had seen the affair. 1t appears that the crowd
was totally undisturhed by the incident. and
tbs. services were continued until tho close
without interruption.
On the night Of July 4 Miss Annie O'Neil.
who lives In West Forty eighth 81 rect. had her
hair clirred ny a man at Forty-eighth street
and Eighth avenue.