The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-06-15
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Thrown at Hawkins BY the Girl He'd
Tired Of and Tilted.
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scripps-McRae Press Assn.
New York, June i5.-- Mamie Collins
had been scorned, so yesterday she
threw acid on the scorner.
''All the other girls do that nova
days. why shouldn't ~" Mamie ask.
ed herself and then told herself .hat
Il was the proper thing to do As she
had been scorned for six long week..
she didn't think that little drug
store bottle Of stun would do. so she
got p pint pitcher and had il filed with
suphuric acid. Then. with her pitcher
under paper wrapping she came
over TO Manhattan from her home at
10 State street. Brooklyn yesterday
afternoon and lay in wait for Patrick
Hawkins, the man who had Tilted her
Hawkins lives in Brooklyn and
works IN Hoboken Before she was
put aside six weeks ago Mamie went
every afternoon 70 meet Patrick and
go homo from work with him, so she
knew his route. Il was across the Ha-
boken ferry to Fourteenth street and
from Fourteenth street down town on
the Ninth avenue elevated
Mamie with her pitcher waited for
him yesterday on the stairs leading
up to the Fourteenth street elevated
station-the same stairs they had so
often climbed together before Patrick
changed his mind He came along just
after six O'Clock and was going lp the
stairs on the jump TO catch an ap-
preaching train when Mamie faced
him and threw the acid full in his
face Most of the pint went on Haw-
kins. Some fell on Mamie's black
skirt and turned it red in spots ana the
rest went over the stair railing and
sprinked the fruit on an Italians
stand on the sidewalk
Hawkins groped his way down the
stairs screaming with pain. The fruit
pedler helped him across the street
to a drug store, while several men
who had seen the acid throwing from
the street tried TO catch the woman.
She might have got away by running
up stairs and getting aboard the train
But she ran down instead and to
elude the men who we're waiting for
her at the bottom of the stairs she
climbed over the rail quarter of the
way up. dropped to the pavement and
ran down Ninth avenue, after throw
ing the empty pitcher at her pur
suers. She was caught at Twelfth
street by John Fitzgibbons, who turn
ed her over to Policeman Meyers. She
was locked up for the night in the
Charles street police station, At the
station she said that she loved Haw
kins dearly and wanted to marry him
but that he had not been to see hei
| for six weeks and wouldn't keep th'
engagement Then she cried.
Hawkins was sent from the drul
store to the New York Eye and Eai
Indrmary in Second avenue Hii
burns are serious. but is was sale
at the inhrmary last night that h'
would probably not lose the use O
either eye. He admitted that he haC
been engaged to the Collins girl anC
said he had got tired Of her.
Hawkins has been the support Of hi
aged parents for some time. The!
live at 327 Henry street His mother
who has abhorred Mamie Collins, ne
jolced when Patrick transferred BIZ
attentions to a Hoboken damsel.
Mamie is 22 years old, At her hom
last nig'i the members Of her famil,
seemed Indifferent to her predlcameni
The apparently thrifty Hawkins fan
: lily have but a poor opinion of the Co
Inns family.