The evening world., 1893-12-07
DID He STAB Calm ?.
The Assailant's Double Begged
Money at Brewer Mayors.
Called for a Threatening Letter
Signed Charles Samssn."
Addressed "Mrs. Bowler, 10 West
Forty-sixth Street."
and Ward Detectives

Capt. Pickett and Ward Detectives
Bronner and Gilligan. Of the
Eighty-eighth street station, are
making strenuous efforts to appre-
hend the mysterious man who murder
ously assaulted Lavard Calm. the miner
alogist and lecturer. In front of his door
step. at l0i5 Fifth avenue. last night.
with a heavy, keen-edged dagger.
Last night Mr.. Cam left the Third
avenue a." station at Elghtyrourth
street at about G o'clock and started
across town for his home.
! Mr.. Calm was met at Madison
avenue and Eighty-fourth street by
rou9h-looking man, apparently
forty years old, wearing "A shabby
heavy. full black beard. The man
stepped up to Mr.. Calm and said:
/ May | speak to you n moment?'
Mr.. Calm paid no attention to the man,
who then repeated his request. AS Mr..
Calm did not stop the man went off
muttering.
| lie was seen to accost several other
persons Immediately afterwards.
Mr.. Calm had just reached his home
steps when he discovered his .questioner
of few moments before behind him.
He was alarmed and stepped into the
little yard In front of the house leading
to the servants entrance.
/ Suddenly the man leaped forward and
plunged wicked-looking dagger into
Mr.. Cahn's cheek.
The blade, which Is fully seven inches
long and ground to n keen edge on both
sides, entered the flesh. just under the
left jawbone and passed upward to the
nose, cutting the bone clear through.
The, would-be assassin then fled. leav-
Ing the, weapon sticking in the terrible
wound he had inflicted
cate man., felt little pain, and main
tained full control Of his senses. He
g rang the door-beli and was admitted by
yond the power of speech at the bloody
face Of his brother and the sight of the
dagger sticking in the wound
Th brother, scarcely realizing what
he was doing, pulled the weapon out.
! and blood poured in torrents from both
the nostrils and the ugly hole under the
jaw bone.
+ A messenger was despatched for Drs.
| McGregor, of 1ll8 Madison avenue. and
| Weimer. of 4S East Sixty-fifth street.
who promptly responded.
1t was long time before the doctors
succeeded in stanching the flow of blood,
after which the wound was dressed and
the patient rendered as comfortable as
was possible under the circumstances.
Dr. McGregor has grave doubts OF his
patients recovery. To an Evening
World" reporter this morning he said
tion and that there was imminent dan
gel. of blood;poisoning and lock-jaw;
Mr.. Calm Is twenty-nine years old, and
the sen Of Isaac Calm, a wire, goods
Eighteenth street.
, The police express the belief that the
general for wealthy people, and that
Mr.. Calm had not been previously
marked for vengeance as was at first
supposed.
No one can be found who witnessed
the assault, but an Evening World'
reporter learned something to-day which
may be the means of discovering the
desperate wretch who assaulted Mr..
Calm.
David Mayer. the wealthy brewer lives
at 1913 Firth avenue, next door but one
AN Evening World' reporter to-day told
story which may throw some light on
the mystery surrounding the identity OF
Mr.. cahn's assailant,
Yesterday afternoon about o'clock
young man, apparently twenty-five
years old. rang her front door bell The
from the man a letter with the request
that It be handed to Mrs. Mayer. Tho
man said he would wait for an answer
Mrs. Mayer was not at home, and the
man told the butler that he would leave
the letter and would call again later
The letter was In French, and consisted
OF fourteen pages closely, written in a
Grand Union Hotel last week. and was
addressed tn Mrs. nOuvier, l6 West
Forty sixth street"
which was Of n threa tcning nature. Miss
Mayer cannot remember all that was In
it. but among other things, the writer
said that he was not seeking employ
ment. but was y desperate man who
needed ready money at once. The writer
declared that dire conse1ucpces would
wrote that he had been n bronze manu-
facturer and signed his name Charles
Samson"
concluding that it waa from either an
impOstor or "A crank, told the butler 10
give the man II dollar when he called
again.
The butler describes the man who left
the letter as, light-complexioned, with a
light mustaChe,
young MIR. Calm occurred, and a member
Of the Calm family rushed into Mrs.
Mayors house for assistance. For II
time ther" was great excitement, and
before things had cooled down again
Mrs. Mayors butler was called to the
door again
man, apparently forty-hve. years old,
with black hair and mustache He said
! that he had called for the letter left
both the visitors spoke with foreign
, accent
The butler gave the man dollar and
| was about TO close the door When the
caller asked for the letter. Mrs. Meyer
was consulted. and told the butler to
! give the man the letter. This was done,
and the man went off GrumblinG.
To-day Mrs. Mayer was much an
noyed to think that she had not kept the
letter. She could not explain how the
begging letter came to be delivered to
| her. The butler, however, said that the
second man told him that Mrs. Bouvier,
to whom the letter was addressed, had
| left the city and gone back 20 France.
Mrs. Frances NJ. Britton occupies the
but at "A West Forty-sixth street lives
Michael G. Bouvier, a stock BROKER, OF
l6 Broad street.
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