The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-21

CAPT. HUGHES
East 5ixty-sixth street, on suspicion Of having
been Miss Hughes's assailant. Prissman was
caught in . restaurant at Third avenue and
Sixty-ffth street, where he was eating lunch.
He Indignantly denied that he had assaulted
Miss Hughes. Prissman was q member of the
American Volunteers up to o few weeks ago,
when he was dismissed for misconduct. 1t is
said that he was converted at Sing Sing as .
result of Mrs. Booths prison work and that for
q time after his release he showed every evi.
dence Of being sincere in his desire to reform.
Major Frederick Gardner. who is taking Com
mander Booths place while the latter is in
Philadelphia, says that Prissman began to
drink again a few weeks ago, and that several
times he showed up at headquarters partly un-
der the influence Of liquor. As he didn't i'm
prove in his habits. he was finally dismissed.
Major Gardner said that he didn't know
whether Miss Hughes had anything to do with
Prissman's dismissal or not, although she may
have complained of his being drunk. Nobody
else around Volunteer headquarters seemed to
know anything on that point, either. Capt.
McClusky said that he arrested Prissman at
the request of tho Orange police, who had in
formed him that the man was the only person
except Commander Booth who knew that Miss
Hughes was going to leave for her home In
oranBo Dy an carrier train nan usual on inc
night of the assault. AS he understood 1t, he
said, Prissman had been hanging around Vol.
Sntess hSsaMd}l .. since = his ID dismissal, and
that she was going home by the train on which
learned that some time ago Miss Hughes's pock-
etbook was stolen from her coat while 1t was
made, and Prissman was suspected. AS he was
out 81 faE !, on account S.a11nt Of hls Thinking Ing, habits bit
nf1rar who "a "a fhiQ inflammation said that hA
knew that Prissman blamed Miss Hughes for his
police as an all.around crook. On March 8,
1891. he was sentenced to ten years in Sing
committed in that city. Communication for good
conduct saved him from serving q largo part Of
his ssn pn1iss Hey vas arraigned LII IN the Centre naas
to the Tombs until to-day. He refused to talk
and with her sister Jennie, who Is two years
older, has been identified with the work Of the
took aoief i ap. The riSis are Stn dsus Snaipt q The e Row.
DR.. George Hughes, editor Of the Gnide to Holt
ness. q Methodist publication, with offices in
Army several years ago, but followed Balling-
ton Bocth when'he left That organization to start
the Volunteers. Jennie Hughes Is private secre-
tary to Mrs. Ballington Booth.
Capt: Hughes was the youngest officer in the
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her associates and has the reputation OF being
ono of tho hardest and most earnest workers in
in Orange with her sister. and sometimes they
meet their father on the train: On "wednesday
shS %ee Gsa asp' and nSTs sSd to sne SO s' aIoee. Il She d iaf NOT
wear her uniform, but had on her bonnet and
badge: She reached Orange at about . O'Clock
ana started to walk to her home at 40 Ridge
street, about a quarter Of a mile away. 1t was
dark and most Of tho way was lonely, but Miss
walked over the same route many times and Is
30 well known In Orange that 1t never occurred
e To her to be b afraid. BSsISe sb she ra had on her g
ample protection against any disreputable way
farers she might meet.
anybody until she reached the junction. of Main
and Ridge streets, which T. a block from her
steps Slps behind hind her. :" They we're re- not heavy steps steps,
and she had no idea whether the approaching
per:on was = man or a woman; In fact, she
1t was less than a quarter of a minute after.
ward that the footsteps became, hurried and
fore she could turn around she felt a blow on the
back of the neck. She remembers falling n a
until she reEalned consciousness. She says
either before Or after tho bloW, and couldn't
When Miss Hughes recovered Consciousness
It was $3.50 o'clock. She was lying at full
could not have failed to SEQ her. She couldn't
recall what hadshappened:at first, and says she
the Voluniteer 6eSdquarteTs in this city. Grad r
ually the truth came lack 10 her. and her first
thought then was TO conceal tho matter from her
parents. She staggered to her home, and as
she entered her mother called out:
Come here's moment, Anna, / want to speak
"Illb be there in q few moments" answered the
girl. II want to go upstairs first
She went to her room, threw herself on the
bed, and lost consciousness again; 1t was after
z o'clock when her mother, who had called her
several times without. getting any. response.
went to her room and found her on the bed. A
physician was at once. He found tho
Injury on tho back Of tho neck, and declared
that the girl had had a very narrow escape.
would have certainly broken the spinal column
had II landed u llttlO lower.
Miss Hughes didn't recover Consciousness
until the next day. Then she told her story and
mander Booth, when he heard OF IL, Immediately
went TO Police headquarters. in this city and
asked Capt. McClusky to assist in finding the
man who had assaulted Miss Hughes, The
absence of any apparent motive made the as
sault most mysterious. No attempt had been
made to rob the young woman; she was not
known to have an enemy in the. world. and 1t
Was scarcely likely that she had been mistaken
for anybody else, because of her bonnet, which
was OF the kind worn by officers OF the Ameri-
can Volunteers.
II Prlssman assaulted Miss Hughes he did 1t
for revenge, believing that she was responsible
for his dismissal from the Volunteers. The po-
lice OF Orange would not say yesterday whether
Miss Hughes was reported to;he worse ycster:
day, morning, but her condition improved
during the day. In speaking OF the assault
Major Gardner said yesterday:
'"Tho little Captain is one OF the most popu-
lar officers in the organization. Commander
Booth and Mrs. Booth were greatly distressed
over her misfortune. We all hope that her as
Bailant will DO found and punished for his