The record-union., 1893-02-16
Low DOWN BUSINESS.
A Gang Of ROodlums BrutaIIy Treat a
Woman.
The Town of Washington Disgraced-
Eleven Persons Implicated and
Several of Them in Jail.

y woman known as Annie Wittke,
but whose other name appears to be Mrs.
Fortier, claims TO have been fiendishly
assaulted in Washington saloon at a
late hour on Tuesday night. She is also
known as "the Bride of Day"
1t appears that she crossed the bridge
alone, about 10 or Il o'clock, on her way
to the Kisner residence, where she has
been employed. According to her state
ment to a RECoRD-UNIoN reporter, she
was accosted on the bridge by a man who
used insulting language, and she entered
the West End saloon to avoid him. In
the saloon she was offered glass of beer
and drank it, whereupon she was seized
by two or three young men who half
carried and half dragged her to a large
room or hall up stairs
The orgies which followed were of the
most brutal and disgraceful nature, she
being set upon, as she AYERS, by eight or
ten men, who submitted her to the gross
est insults and abuse. Her clothing was
torn to shreds, her face and body badly
bruised, and she was held by three or
four of the gang while being criminally
assaulted by one Glenn. She says she
fought her ASSISTANTS as best she could,
but her strength was of little avail against
the ruffians.
She could identify only one of the men.
and that one she states was the leader and
most brutal one of the crowd-one jim
Glenn, who has been employed as roust-
about around saloons.
Mrs. Fortier says that when she was
almost insensibl the gang took her to a
room occupied by Glenn and left her
there, where she was found yesterday
morning in precarious condition. The
apartment was one of the filthiest places
imaginable, and unfit even for dog ken
mel.
Last evening she was brought over to
the Receiving Hospital, and appeared to
be somewhat recovered, but suffered
greatly from the. abuse to which she had
been subjected. She is a woman of about
50 years of age, and says she has grown
children, but they are scattered and she
does not know NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Warrants were issued by Justice New
ton yesterday Tor eleven participants in
the affair, and up to last evening six or
seven arrests had been made by Con-
stable Frommelt of Washington.
Glenn, whom Mrs. Fortier says led the
assault npon her, was the first arrested,
and was locked up in the City Jail here
yesterday.
There was considerable excitement over
the affair on both sides of the river yes
terday, and many expressions were heard
of punishment peculiarly adapted to
the perpetrators of the outrage if the
seeming facts of the case should prove
true.
THE SALOON KEEPERS STORY.
Fred Kripp, who manages the saloon.
tells very different story. He says the
woman called at his place about 10
O'Clock and asked for beer. He told her
she could not be served in the public
saloon, but must go in the ladies
room," which she did. She was ''pretty
full'' when she got there.
Kripp says he was called to another
room to wait on some friends, and re-
manned there in conversation with them.
When he returned the woman was gone.
Shortly afterwMd he heard a noise in
the hall overhead, and supposed 1.-THE
boys were having a sparring bout.
Someone told him that Glenn and Mrs.
Wittke were up there, and he went to the
stairway and saw group of young fell
lows gathered about the doors of the hall.
They told him that they were watching
Glenn and the woman.
kripp says he got mad and drove the
whole crowd from ;he place, put out the
lights and closed the house. He learned
the next morning that the woman had
gone with Glenn to the latter's lodgings,
but hes did not know where they went
lie says that when he ordered the crowd
away the woman refused to go and fought
him, and he had to forcibly eject her.
He declares that he conducts his place
as quietly as possible, and says that it is
trequented by the best citizens of the
town.