Connecticut western news., 1893-10-19
NoMAN,s INHUMANITY TO WOMAN.
Where Sympathy Might Have Been Ex-
 pected From Any wearer of Skirts

Where Sympathy Might Have Been hx- pected From Any wearer of Skirts.
 Alittle young woman turnedinto West | Twenty sixth street from Seventh avenue ,n her way to Eighth avenue about S:80 |. m. yesterday. A jaunty hat sur mounted her head, and her dark gown was snugly fitted.
 1 Opposite the stables in the middle of he block all at once her step began to alter, and look of despair came into her brown eyes. She gazed about like a hunted animal in search of place of Ihelter, while her hands grabbed convul- lively at her hips. A thin white line ap- peared at the bottom of the skirt.
 All at once her face lighted up as does landscape when the sun breaks through the clouds. She had found place of refuge. The area gate of house near Eighth avenue, which she had now reached, stood invitingly open, and there was no gate at all to the recess under the stoop on which the basement door opened. The basement door, too, was open, and there was no one, as it proved, In the dark hall beyond.
 It was just the place to reclaim the refractory underslxirt, and the girl hur- ried to the friendly shelter. Quickly as she had passed under the stoop. she had been seen by big woman who was dusting the first floor hall. The big woman hurried down the steps and asked aggressively of the young woman, who was struggling with her skirt in the basement hall:
 "What are you doing thereT "Pm tightening my skirt, which had slipped down." answered the girl, oom- pleting the tightening process.
 You've no business there. I'm not keeping dressing room. I'll teach you to trespass on my premises. l arrest you, Come along"
 So saying, the big woman grabbed the girl by the throat and dragged her into the street.
 "Let me go. I've done nothing wrong. Let me go to work. It's time I should be at the shop" remonstrated the girl as we'll as she could while nearly stran- gled.
 The big woman only frightened her grip on the girls throat.
 "rll not let you go until policeman comes. Making dressing room of my housel Too many have done it, and won't have itp
 While speaking, she continued to drag the girl toward Eighth avenue and looked up and down that thoroughfare for policeman. Apparently thinking she saw one in the direction of Twenty fifth street, she started down the avenue with the girl.
 Now, the spectacle of one woman hay ing another by the throat is unusual in Eighth avenue, at any rate at 9 o'clock In the morning, and a crowd soon sur rounded the two women. By the time they had reached Twenty-ffth street the crowd was so great that their farther progress was barred. The crowd wanted an explanation, and when the big wom- an loosened her hold on her prisoners throat, while telling of the trespass which had been committed, the younger woman took advantage of the opportu- nity to tell her side of the story. The crowd believed her and began to jostle and shove the big woman. A sympa- thizing woman in the crowd stuck pins into the big woman's arm to make her give up the hold which she still kept of her prisoners neck. The big woman let her prisoner go in order to draw rusty fle from her pocket with which she threatened the lostfng crowd. This proved the prisoners opportunity. She plunged through the crowd which open ed to let her pass and then closed in be- hind her, and hailing horse car was a moment later being carried out of her captor's reach up the avenue. The crowd prevented the big woman from following her, and rubbing the arm into which the pins had been stuck she returned to her home in Twenty-sixth street.-New York Sun.