New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-13
,NEGRO'S BRUTAL ATTACK.
HE ASSAULTS A MAN AND WOMAN IN
THE BRONX.
THE MAN BEATEN INTO UNCoNsc1ousNEes
AND HIS COMPANION BADLY INJURED
POLICE UNABLE TO FIND ANY
rpACE OF HIM

polio f. UNABLE To fIND N-'A
TRACE OF HIM.
.uo.,ar brutal assault in The Bronx has roi-
"a o,,oLlv on that Of last Wednesday, "hen
,,,,, Ka+berine McMullen and DR.. a. u 'ohii-
- y, the Home for Incurabes IN IhiIu-
,,a-e attacked and beaten on the Aqueou0'
Their assailant was negro
Ias, night James Robinson, forty-four years
ola NJ No 1921 Second-ave.. employed III '"e
bookbindery Of J. w. Huntington d.
taentb-st and Broadway. and MISS As"es 49,
q ,aundress in the employ OF the "gthe i"''''
~ Riverdale were in the WOODS near Oi''
dredand sixty-ffth-st and Gerard-aNe'' W.
a light colored negro feled Robinson WIZ"
brickbat and after attacking the "o''"'''
coned into the woods. The woman ana man are
In Fordham Hospital Robinson Is IN d seii'"0
condition IA Che
,,, .oroan "a only twenty years Old she
80 pohipeon downtown yesterday afternoon
"a ,he,, went IN 70 The Bronx together They
.oro near q nile of timber about $50 ocioch
when a negro crept up behind Robinson II
uas rather dark and the woman did not see
the negro till he had struck Robinson lie useu
half brick and hit him number or tunes
Robinson at the first blow fell forward as 'he
blow was from behind.
The blow was a steady and heaVy one "e
negro followed it up with another unui hoo'"-
son fell on the ground. His Jaw was oroAen'
his head cut in several places his race ana MS
shoulders and arms bruised by the blows or the
brickbat He was unconscious
The woman screamed several times, put she
was many rods from house. There are Ie"
nereons nassing even the main roads near this
piece of woods and she could not be heard al
that hour from the nearest house. The man
aud ha a IA nc
attention to the scream.
The negro struck her in the face with MS
weapon She fell but struggled up again She
was knocked down again with blow In the
head and the man beat her in the face and
head till she bled profusely and was too weak
from fright and shock and her wounds TO resist
longer
The negro escaped in the direction Of Fleet
wood Park. the woman says and the police
think he went in that direction too, as no one
was seen coming out Of the woods in the oppo-
site direction
The woman did not become unconscious at any
time she declares She managed to resuscitate
Robinson after nearly half an hours hard work
and she dragged and half led the man through
the woods to the road. The woods are dark, she
weas weak, the man was almost dead weight
and she had 10 make her way over tract she
did not know to a main road TO find some one
TO take of the man and herself. She was
fairly exhausted when she reached the road near
Conrads Hotel One-hundred- and sixty
fourth-st. and Jerome-ave.
Some there her and they took her
and the man into the hotel. They revived them
with stimulants. The woman then told her story.
Policeman Brownell sent for ActAg Captain
Cannon, of the High Bridge Station. He and
detectives came over TO the hotel. An ambulance
had been summoned and Dr. Mulholland came
with one from the Fordham Hospital
He said the fracture was bad one and, with
the other wounds made the mans case dan
\ so critical Both patients were hurried off to
N the hospital
The said that the negro. she is sure
old. He about feet inches tall. and not
strongly built. He wore a black derby and q
black cutaway suit Of clothes. The woman
could not give more detailed description OF
the man. The woman is strong and she gave
the negro a hard battle.
Captain Cannon sent Detectives Warden
Lang, Brownell and others into the woods and
outside Of IL to watch for the man. No trace
OF him could be found. though the detectives
and number Of policemen. who Joined In the
hunt, secured the woods and the adjacent re-
gion.
Captain Cannon said on Thursday last that a
number Of assaults on white persons by negroes
had taken place in The Bronx since the i'm
portation of negroes into the district by the
railroad and Jerome Park reservoir contractors.
He said that in nearly all the the per-
sons attacked and assaulted have not made any
OF the facts known fearing publicity.