The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-03
GIRL DRUGGED; MAN RAN.
Hr o11EFUILT ExTRAoTS A GARD
Epo,r 1FR PoCKETBOOK FLRsT.

n., u.- fate n DruE store aua beft Hes. Hor
p,,-,,s, aud Her Money, bat Get That
Cssn-a.. und nae = Desc or Opiun.
. .,vm nscover-shs Won't Tell who ne ns.
z.uLarosscd Young man pushed open the
door =, su,,an'a drug shop. at the northeast
oornoro, r,ventv.third street and Third avenue,
about a.ao o'clock last evening and half led.
half carried n woman to one OF the chairs pro-
vided for customers. George Bruins, tho cash
ier. md A, c. Blnldner. the clerk, hurried to the
front of the store. They asked what the man
wanted. He told thom maj his companion
wished 10 ait down for . moment. For nearly
aftoen minutes the man pinchod his compan-
iona cars. pulled her hair. and slapped her faco.
,nn.rently to keep her awake. In spite Of his
efYorts tho woman went to sleep. and finally
nearly fall from the chair. While the man was
irving TO keen her awake ho repeated:
"Don't fool, Mary; DO q good girl. Wake mp,
Mary Don't try to fool me. Wake up. now,
and como along. Come on with me, Mary"
After tho woman had become unconscious, the
man asked the clerks whore he could get q cab.
They told him that thero were lots Of cabs In the
street.
"she is an old friend Of mine." said the man.
"whom 1 Just met In front OF your door. APP
parently she is III. and I thought You would lot
her sit here while ! went for q cab to take her
home.'
Then the man felt through his pockets. He asked
Bruins whether there was not o back room to
which tho woman could be taken. Bruins said
there was not. Then the man took up his COM
p%snion's ocketbook and examined it,apparently
looking for money, He took out a card or slip
hands over her dress, to see whether she had
anything concealed about her; Several times
fsr ' "a saS to h Don. sn ncSs aantfi / s Maf Back a% going
He told Bruins that he would call q cab, and
ran out Of The shop; po He did not ho come back sSa ,,,t
with the mbuiance from bellevue. said that
tho woman. who was unconscious. was suffering
She Vas taken 70 the l hospital t. and ! l,6 her Prep p;
dress. Her iowseiry Consisted Of diamond ear:
rings. two diamond finger rings a pearl
a sq 'Sur' 7 fo Clover sre' She PIN was sn 5 f fest t fe'Rf ech Ss
tai, had dark dn1 brown roU5 hair hair. blue 1D eyes IoHivI Tsgu liar
at drst refused to give any ,i%pformatio about
herself; but to repeated INQUIRIES gave the nam!S
she answered after that. but would give no ad-
dress. Tho hospital slip roads,. Age. "a; dauRh.
ter Of Charles and Fanny a label 'orter BY occu'
She said later that. she had gone to dinner
with the man who took her into the drug shop,
She She W sas' n sao intox s%S ssSSe o refused sss'f to 'h tel
who her companion was. -.u
nl In H hff RHGMSk sry aarr T"s e q sllNssih on IT, h nr,
were also these visiting cards. those Of the rien
having the addresses written on them in pencil:
Mary J. Lloyd. 1913 North Sixth street. Phila-
dslphia; Mrs. Trowing; 29l7 North Sixth street,
Philadelphia; Herbert Kimball Rees, GA Broad
way, this city; H.. Aldrich, 81 MURRAY. street.
York. and J. H.. Parker. Asbury Park. She had
also the business cards OF j. l.. LIE Compile. lily:
cry stable. 1912 Madison avenue. and Frankield
& Co.. jewellers. 2. West Fourteenth street:
She had . small sum of money and
railroad tickets to Ocean Grove, Asbury
Park and Branchport, bought in Juno. Tho
hospital physicians say that the woman will not
die. They are in some doubt rs to what hcr
illness is. but. think it probable that, shc took
an overdose of opium or some similar drug. Her
recovery was very rapid for one who had taken
knockout drops or anything of that nature,
they say.
The man who took the woman into the drug
shop, as described by Bruins. was 5 feet 8 inches
tall, with regular features and dark hair and
mustachc. He wore a light Fedora hat with a
bla X band. a light, overcoat, dark striped
trousers cut very tight and tan shoes. Bruins
says that he spoke like a man of education.