New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-12-03
FIGHT ~ A BROADWAY CAR.
A WOMAN AND TWO MEN ENGAGE IN AN
EXCITING ENCOUNTER.

A WOMAN AND TWO MEN ENGAGE, IN AN
EXCITING ENCOUNTER.
The assault Of man by a woman with an UNI
brela and a subsequent fight between the man
and the woman's escort in q Broadway cable car
last night caused q panic among the women pas
seneers and intense excitement among the men, and
the three persons taken to the West Thirteth-
St station finally. one OF them being locked up
Both men fought till they rolled over the car
floor and their faces were bruised and their cloth
ing was torn. The woman went into Mysteries.
The woman is an actress whose name is Winnie
Schwartz and whose stage in Winnie Black.
She lives al No. 1876 West Ninety-sixthst she says
Her escort Charles j. Kapenkamp twenty-nine
years old in the drygoods business and living at
No 233 East One-hundred- and -fourteenth-st The
other man is Robert 3. Benas manufacturer OF
sample cases at No. 40 Franklin-st.
Kapenkamp and the young woman were travel
ling uptown on O car which they had boarded at
ty-third-st. When the reached Twenty
seventh-st Benss and friend criminal lawyer.
got in. and they sat down opposite the others.
The car already contained number Of men and
women.
arose She raised her umbrella and with shrek
hit the man In the face, and then raised the UNI
brella again and hit him the head. knocking OF
his She then poked him In the face with the
improvised weapon and screamed at him:
''Ill teach you not to Islander my reputation
She was red in the face and much excited, and
the man tried TO force her into her seat, saying:
Madame, you. must be mistaken-you've surely
made a mistake" ,
The women in the car had half risen in surprise
and fright and were wondering what was the mat
ter while the tried 70 calm them; Inc Won s
was furious as she fought Benas, and as she tired
TO get away from his grasp she cried: ~.
{G YOU a. bn2y Kew Kew YORK f h and
YOU went about saying I robbed you"
Benas was trying TO force the woman mo sea-
ali the time and when she said she knew him he
answered: 49, z.,,, ,.o,, ore
You'd better sit down or III tell ABOUT you and
Kapenkamp jumped up from MS SCAT anu
struck Benas a heavy blow In the race S'asse''"b
"Tu teach YOU TO insult a lady while I'm about
Benas recovered and went at Kapenkamp WIN a
vigorous rush while the women who had shreked
al the blow struck by Kapenkamp now rusnSu s III
poIcernen The car kept moving al. the tIIIle'.
Kapenkamp and Benas hit at each OlleI So 90
times clinched and both fel 70 me moo conan nan
rolled over each other several times Inc "O'
stood up Historically screaming 49,. o,,oo
The gripman now stopped the car anu VI 80
boarded Il and took me "O 2niica s statIon
A. the notice station the woman tod captain
price that She had met Benas in Liberty at stIa r
49, sba had robbed him. She had TO leave the
riaca abA said &c she could not stay after that
Renas said ne had had 500 Wheh ne Weht w
with the woman. but nothing when ne 9o Zoo ON
cbooze. in Liberty in a night" ,,..ao
PeDaa added he asked the hotel clerk IN wnaI De
md he was told in twenty dollar bills, ne salo.
sSrher I said: I guess it's out OF my HonVe.s,
and l winked" said Benas. and ths i Jhe bsrro
The woman wanted Benas arrested on a cntIE
Of declaring that she had robbed him. ana
Price refused Benes then MADE colnPldlint %. vi
assault against Kapenkamp; ana whsn 'ne ~toin
price accepted the complaint and ne ordered nap
enkamp locked up.