The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-10
MYSTERY IN WOMEN'S DEATHS.
TWO FOUND DYING FROM WOUNDS
IN BROOKLYN STREETS.

Beth Expire In Hsspitals--One. Miss Susie
Davies. Was . Church Worker. and
Polioe Think She Was Killed while
Defending Hersen From Assault.
Two women were found unconecic US
In the streets Of Brooklyn early yesterday
morning, and each died soon after being
taken to q hospital without explaining
her condition. Ono woman, who was
identified a. Miss Susie Davies Of 1sAo
Broadway, Brooklyn, was found lying
partly dressed In front Of John H. Lubbin's
livery stable at $50 Van Buren, street. with
her back, leg and hip broken; the other
was Annie M. Cook. IS years old, Of 257
Washington street. She was found lying
in a pool Of water in an areaway at 26S
Washington street with Der skull fractured.
There Is no relation between the two
cases. Both women. the police say. had
been drinking. although the Davies woman,
who was 20 years old, had the reputation
Of being thoroughly respectable and a
church worker. She lived with her brother
and sister. and had come to Brooklyn
recently from Rockaway.
Two men. Percy Jones Of 22S Vermont
street. and John Richardson. colored, the
former a cabman and the latter a night
Waterman In Lubbin's employ, have been
arrested In connection with the death Of the
Davies woman. Jones was taken on the
charge Of homicide and Richardson u
being held as a witness.
Jones says that he discovered the Davies
woman. drunk, standing in the. rain at
Ralph and Gates avenues at 1 o'clock In
the morning, and offered to take her to her
home. She refused. according to Jones
to give her address. Out Of pity he took
her to the livery stable. He says he made
q bed for her out Of horse blankets on the
third floor Of the barn, where his own bed
room ia. and that later, when he went down
stairs in response to q telephone call, she
jumped out OF the window and fell forty
feet to the sidewalk. Jones reported
her condition to tho police soon after she
fell
Richardson's story supports Jones's In
and the police believe that he has not told
all that he knows. Richardson says that
he was In the harness room on the second
floor and did not see the woman until he
went up to the third floor to tell Jones
that there was q call on the telephone.
He says that the woman then was standing
partly dressed, outside Of Jones's bedroom
says. they heard the fall OF the woman
The police suspect that an attempt was
made to assault her and that she fell OF
jumped out Of the window in her struggle.
She is known to have been in 7. r
Gannons liquor store at Ralph and Gates
avenues at about midnight. The bar,
keeper says she was not Intoxicated and
had only one drink while there. Jones
was in the place at the time.
A number OF Biblical quotations were
found on pieces Of paper in her purse
Her brother, Alexander, with whom she
lived says she was not in the habit Of being
out late nights and had not said where
she was going when she left the houst
early in the evening.
Jones was held in Is, 1000 and Richardson
in 500 bail
1t was reported in Warrington street
where Annie M. Cook was found. dying
that cab had driven up In the night anc
left her there, but the police could no
rumor. and it Is thought that she dice
from exposure after having fractured mel
skull by fall. The Devies woman diet
in the Bushwick Central Hospital, and the
Cook woman in the Cumberland stree
hospital.