The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-29
TORNENTED FOR IS YEARS.
STORY or THE AGED WOMAN
VINO SHOT THREE BOYS.

The Boys Not Very Seriously Hurt-Her
Sick Husband. VINO Was Disturbed By
the stones the Beyv Threw, % Very
Near Deatii-She Furnishes D 900 Ban
Old Mrs. Margaret Lorenz who fred
birdshot into a gang Of tormenting boys
on Friday. lives in tumblsdown cabin
at the foot Of a rocky hill that forms the
western boundary OF what was once known
az Hoboken swamp In Hoboken. But
the swamp has been filed in all around
in recent years, 80 that little remains OF
II except shallow ponds on each side OF
the old woman's dwelling. The place IL
now designated a. Eighth street and the
mountain Mrs. Lorens has been tor
mented by tribe after tribe Of Hoboken
boys for thirty-eight years.
When she fired her shotgun on Friday
three boys were wounded and four others
ran leaping up the side of the hill with loud
cries OF fear and disnay. Yesterday Re
corder stanton held her for the Grand Jury
under 9 900 bonds. which Mrs. Lorens
When visited after her liberation Mrs.
Lorenz was at work upon slender penin-
sula in the swamp formed BY dumping
rubbish.
She paused in her work long enough to
u q
Those boys have called me odd Dutchy'
for thirty-eight years, she began. During
all these years they have stood on that hill
right In front OF my house. calling me nance
them haven't had a glass window in the
front Of the house for fifteen years. Yester-
day they called me names and threw stones
at me until they drove me frantic. My
husband In sick.
~ yorroJ thsn, IT, 49, 40 7
None Of the bad boys who disturbed
me ever came to q good end continued
Mrs. Lorensx folding her arms grimly,;;
Nearly all d them that stood on that hlli
always lots Of boys. though. Just as fast
as one crowd grew up Others came along.
They were 90 mixed that you could never
tell when one lot went away and the others
came. Big ones and little ones. they were
when l FIRST moved here, that hill. now
20 hare and rocky. was covered with trees
and green grass, and there were big purple
spots made BY the yiolets that grew there
The boys have tramped the life out Of them.
They have just lived on the hill all these
year,, leaving scarcely green thing upon 1t.
The swamp was then . green pasture
where I kept. my COWS. Film, In land
for houses and factories caused the water
TO stand. 90 that the grass would not grow
and was forced to sell my Gown.
'Once had q dog that scared the boys
away. He's been dead fifteen years He
knew more than most men. On Q day a
boy fell into the water near my house.
'Dodie jumped In and dragged him out:
Then he poked the boy with his hose until
the little fellow ran home. dripping wet. 10
get some dry clothes. Was that boy CRATE
ful2 Mol He came back the next day from
the hill sides and threw stones at poor
Dodie and me- That how waa Around hero
for years. Then he grew up and dBap-
peared. I suppose he went TO jail
Mrs. Lorenz is e8 Year, old and Joseph,
her husband, is rs.
Joseph IL falling said she, 'but was
never In better health. Barring . tooth
ache twelve years ago, never was sick
Louis Hanna, Charles White and Louis
Gobbilosi. the boys who were wounded by
the old woman, were noO very seriously
injured. Her sick husband. who was dis
turbed by the stone which entered the house
and which was the immediate oause Of The
shooting. Il said 70 b very near death.