New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-04-10

many THINGS with Professor R0ntgen's discovery but
IL has remained for Mrs. Rost to discover the terrible
power of the Y rays in long distance wchery when
directed by person of malevolent mind. Mrs
Rost's discovery involuntary and she has
suffered so long from The Vaccinations OF a cigar
maker named Frank Ainsworth and confederate,
one Frank Dyer tina, Yesterday she appeared IN
Judge Haggerty's police court and demanded the ar
rest OF the mischevous persons. Her charges
will doubt. puzzle scientists
Ainsworth she accuses OF throwing y rays INTO
her heart liver and kidneys whenever he meets her
on the street. and performing other weird ana
strange pranks such oh arging the gas and sewer
pipes with electricity and y rays and sending in
sutlng messages up the water pipes at all hours OF
the day and night.
Mrs Rost left the satisfied that Mr. Aims
worth and his X-ray wtchcraft would be speedily
attended TO- But when she got home and mounted
the two flights OF stairs to her little apartment
there trouble. Ainsworth had strung
his wires behind her TO the court. and as II IN
revenge was sending X-rays one after another into
her liver from the top floor OF the tobacco shop
around the corner in Fulton-st.. where she says
he makes cigars and does his deviltry When
reporter called upon Mrs. Rost at o'clock yes
terday she was highly excited. ray had jus;
come through four thckncsses Of intervening brick
walls bearing this message: "Yon are terrible old
woman and you have got to die anyway
That's what he and that hussy. FRANKIE are
doing mos, ~ the time" said Mrs Rost excitedly.
"1f have TO stand this eight days longer sha''
go mad "
Then The Tribune man entered the roo"'' lne
rays vanished and Mrs Rost Gained down she
"a a woman OF medium height hfty-sX years on
and enjoyed good health until Ainsworth feli across
her path Mrs Rost speaks broken Engnsh, am
makes strange Of English WORDS our 80 w..
months ago she lived al No :, Johhson,s'' ups
in a evil moment Answorth NAKED mo rne suse1
and MS magnetism ana eectrical power 'huSe"
strange feelings In her liver. , .l
| woke up one night she sal. an ,ar.o
strange feeing came over me terrible foroG
pressed against me- and almost sunoca'el M
tod sons but they could no. ana FRANKS
always knew where ! went; ains"ortn ia N,
the sewer pipes and ne gas psss nn '' the
pipes and talks TO me In way that could only
ieli you through a doctor 80. ,,y .hs
read OF Professor Rontgen's great discovery lneh
she knew what the matter was ~ "as 80 49, MAJ,
,ible rays which Ainsworth sent against nrF nea''
and liver. and which almost BURNS then, os s,a 81
woke up My head vac burning up. and ne ray
on nv heart cut Ike a knife. Why. the othrT 1aS
-" - fhae man liz not arrested II! 20 mad You
see # they put him behind the bars Or am son tree
went 10 the Health Department. but they have 100
Mrs Rost gradually became more esci,ed ana sn
her PRAYERS And TO think tha, am .hIlstian
woman added she. Sometime ago Mrs h9 9 We','
10 DR. shaw Of the Long Island ,ohese iioSP W.a.
IN civ houses In the last four months ana IN i'"
DAYS she IL going to move again sne WI s' ~, -
house without pipe, OF any hrov KIM 80 ''"'
A neighbor OF Mrs. Rost. who Is faminar NJ
her strange haliucination says that III ~ tnn,
months she has Ct anged from sfo.s .o r,s
woman to almost physical wreck Ains"o, ,aI
whoeyar he IT, tho neighbor described an 'a'
man with an evil eye like Syensahs'