The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-12
SHE PUNCHED TIE MAsHER.
He Followed Her About and Tried to
FIirt with Her.
From the New York Sun.

FIirt with Her.
From the New York Sun.
Mrs. Charles c. Lane knocked down
Henry James of the Putnam House on
Tuesday. James. who was a stranger to
her, had annoyed her by following her
through the streets. He had also spoken
to her After she knocked him down she
went about her business, which, unfor-
tunately for James, is juggling with can
non balls and breaking iron chains with
her hands. James caused her to be sum-
moned to the Yorkv.Le Police Court to
answer for assaulung him. Magistrate
Meade not only let Mrs. Lane go free,
but congratulated her for having punched
the head of Mr. James.
When Mrs. LaUe works she is known
as Mile. Suzine Lta. She has been en-
p,oyed with her husband at a Fourteenth
street museum since Monday. They APP
pear on the stage of the museum in tights
and throw forty-pound cannon balls at
each other and catch them and use them
as small boys would use a rubber foot
ball. Mrs Lane is an attractive looking
Young woman. She came from England
wear ago Her hair is light brown and
wayy. When she SIN les she is exceedingly
nretty. Even in the silk blouse and be-
sDangled silk tights which she wears on
the stage, she has not the usual tough
look of the protest. nal strong woman.
When she is off the s age she lives quietly
at her boarding house with her husband
II is Mile. Suzinetta's custom, when she
is performing with the cannon balls, to
smile and kiss her hand at the audience
after each demonstration of her skill and
strength The avery first time she per-
formed here Mr.. James was in the audi
ence. He is middle-aged, thickset man,
with sandy hair. 1t so happened that the
first time that Nile. Suznetta smiled and
kissed her hand to the open-mouthed
crowd that stood on the floor in front of
the platform on which she was perform
ing, Mr.. James was directly in the line
of her smile. He smiled back Mile.
Suzinetta saw him smile, and the next
time she threw a salUe to the audience
she tossed it to a different corner To
her amusement the face of Mr.. James APP
peared before her. When her show was
over and she had become plain Mrs. Lane
again, she forgot all about the man with
the sandy mustache.
But apparently the man with the sandy
mustache did not forget Mile Suzinetta,
for she says she saw him in the audience
before her every time she appeared on
the stage that afternoon and night When
'ever her eyes lighted upon him he smiled
On Monday afternoon, just before II be-
came DARK, Sne went out Tor breath OF
fresh air. She had not gone far, she saws
when a man brushed against her. She
looked at him and saw that IL was the
man who had smiled al her during the
performances. This made her a little ner-
vous, she says. She turned her head the
otherway and walked on. 1t was three
minutes, she said, before that haunting
smile appeared on the other side of her
She walked slowly, so that she would fall
behind it, The smile suddenly appeared
over her shoulder She walked fast to get
ahead Of it, and in a hundred steps she
ran into the man bodily
Good evening"" said he
II wish you would leave me alone" she
answered, her voice trembling with ang-
er. He left her then. she says. but he was
at the museum again that night, smiling
harder than ever.
AZ noon Tuesday, as soon as the morn
ing performances were over, Mrs Lane
started out for a walk She was, not in
the least surprised, she says, when she
saw the thick-set figure of the man with
the smile following her He passed her
once or twice. BY the time she had reach
ed Twenty-thrd street. near Lexington
avenue, she was thoroughly ont Of pa
thence. She stopped and waited. for he
was behind her at the time. He hurried
toward her.
what are you following me for?" she
demanded.
why" he said. why. / wanted to ask
you 70 take a little wax with me-"
"Oh." said Mrs. Lane sweetly. "all
right" Quick as a flash she drew back
her right fist and drove II straight at his
nose lie lodged a little and Il struck
MIN on The right eye He stepped back a
foot or two, AIrs. Lane says, ciapped his