The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-24
A WOMAN'S AWFUL CRIME
DIR. AIMEE HASKINSON. OF INDIAN.
APOLIS, is THE VICTIM.
Sulphuric Acid Thrown in Her Face
by Nomenclature of the
Act Mystery.

An unknown woman committed a most
dastardly crime last night and opened one
of the most mysterious cases with which
the police have dealt in months. DR.. Aimee
Haskinson, young woman who stands
high in the medical profession of the city,
received full in the face quantity of sui
phuric acid thrown by a woman whom she
had seen but once before, and with whom
she, from all that may be gathered, did not
know. About o'clock last night the woman
called at DIR. Haskinsons home, at New
York and Pennsylvania streets, and was
shown to the consultation room AS soon
as the door closed behind her and the doctor,
and before word had passed between
them, she took from under her cloak a
small glass jar containing the acid and
dashed the contents into the doctors face.
She then turned, walked down the hall
from the consultation room to the front
door of the house, passed across the street
and stood on the corner for almost five
minutes before she disappeared from the
neighborhood AS soon as the doctor had
recovered sufficiently from the shock she
began screaming. This called the others
in the house to the consultation room. When
they saw the young womans condition they
Immediately called DR.. Thompson, and he
arrived III IlIHG u Apply al dlhdil WASH
counterfeit the work of the acid to a great
degree. DIR. Haskinsons eyes will be saved.
but the left side of her face will probably
be dstigured for life.
A short time after the crime had been
committed reporters called at the home of
DIR. Haskinson. They were received very
coldly at the door by woman who would
have shut the door in their faces had it
not been insisted that some facts about the
case be given. 1t was learned that the
woman who had thrown the acid into DR..
Haskinson's face called at the house last
Friday for consultation with the doctor,
and made an engagement with her for last
night. She gave her name as Mrs Wilkin-
son. and her address at 220 North Alabama
street. Before last Friday, it was said at
the house. DR.. Haskinson had not seen the
woman. Further than these facts no others
could be secured at the house. Those inside
refused even to give their names or to state
whether or not they were related to DR..
Haskinson.
What is the meaning of this reticence
this mystery" was asked OF one of the
women.
1T might interfere with the apprehending
of the woman" was all the answer that
was given.
The police were notified and an investiga-
ton of the name and address given by the
woman who had thrown the acid resulted
in nothing but the discovery that there is
no go North Alabama street. and that no
one in the neighborhood knew of a Mrs.
Wilkinson. The description furnished the
police is that the woman is tall. and was
last night dressed in black. Her hair and
complexion are blonde.
Dr. Haskinson is highly esteemed among
the physicians of the city who know her,
and she has a vide circle of acquaintance.
She has shown such remarkable ability in
her profession that several of the older
physicians have taken deep interest in
her. She is young, about twenty-four, and
was graduated from the Indiana Medical
College with high honors year ago last
spring Those of her friends who heard of
the calamity which befell her last night
were Mortified, and those who know her best
say she has been the victim of circum-
stances with which she had nothing to do
further than in pursuit of her professional
duties.