The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-26
HELD UP MINISTER'S WIFE
MRS. EECkMANN'S GAME FIGHT
WITH TWO RORBERS.


eucs. ScareS Q Man IN With . Hatpln.
Pretty nearly everybody in the Van
Nest section Of the city is nightly in
terested in 4 hunt that il on for two men
who on Friday evening assaulted Mrs.
Walter Eickmann. the wife Of the Rev.
Walter Eickmann. rector Of ST, Luke's
Lutheran Church, in Adams street, Van
Nest.
One Of the pair il believed TO he the man
who on Saturday afternoon started to seize
Mrs. Anthony King, the wife Of horticul-
turist at the Bronx Botanical Gardens, at
the same place where Mrs. Eickmann was
attacked.
Mrs. Eckmann IL a woman Of about ~
years and il we'll built, On Friday after
noon she put her nine month-old baby
boy in his carriage and wheeled him TO the
home of her mother. Mrs.. Martha Hirsberg.
in ls0th street, near Morris Park avenue
That street is lined with woods. which ex-
tend nearly to the Morris Park racetrack.
and IL poorly lighted.
According TO Mrs. Eickmann. she had
gone about a quarter Of mile and was
within a few hundred yards Of her home
ahead of her.
A. she came up they stood still and when
she reached them one Of the men seized her
ny the waist while the other put one hand
over her mouth and his other at her throat
Then. before she could shout they began
to drag her toward the bushes at the side
of the street. Mrs. Eckmann says that
abe chung to the baby carriage and dragged
| IL m aftar her
As coon AZ they were on the street Mrs.
| Eickmann began to struggle with all her
| might She managed to get flee for
second and to scream.
Henry Corrigan Of Jefferson street .
bookkeeper at The Bronx Bleaching Mills,
was coming along behind Mrs. Eickmar n
| with a young woman They both hearo
Mrs. Eickmanns scream
Corrigan ran up just In time to see Mrs.
Eickmann struggling with the two men.
One Of the men ran at CorrigAn, then jumped
10 one side and made for Corrigan's COM
panion. She screamed and the man didn't
touch her, but ran away in lsGh street
toward Bronx Park.
The other Of Mrs. Eictmann's assailants
then ! :oke through the bushes and ran into
| tie woods. Corrigan thinks he went
toward the Morris Park racetrack.
At this time William Peters, superin-
uendent Of the parks in The Bronx, came
|
Mrs. Eickmann's scream. Mrs. Eickmann
was then unconscious AZ result OF her
struggles and Corrigan and Peters put her
| in the carriage and started toward the
parsonage The baby boy meanwhile was
lying peacefully in his carriage. He was
wheeled along behind Mr.. Peters's carriage.
The little procession had gone only
few steps when the ministers big New
foundland dog Jack, came rushing along
the road He made spring at the car
riage. and was called of by MIR. Eickmann
Just in time 10 avoid trouble.
Mrs Eicknann was unhurt except for q
few bruises on her face and throat, although
her dress had been torn badly below the
neckband. She was soon revived and then
Mr.. Peters hustled to his telephone and
summoned Capt. Hodgins and Detectives
Kelly and Giblen from the West Chester
police station.
The police, accompanied by Mr.; Eick.
MAINS neghbors and thirty or forty mei
who were summoned from picnic at
Suffers West Chester Park searched the
woods for hours for Mrs. Eickmann't
atlantis. The police kept up the hunt
until 7 o'clock Saturday morning. but go'
no trace Of the men.
wears old and dressed in dark clothes ant
black derby hats. 1t was man answering
this description who made trouble for Mrs
King at 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon
She was walking up 1S0th street when
man came toward her on a bicycle. HI
Jumped Of the machine, hid it behind tn
bushes and then started toward Mrs, King
Mrs. King had heard of Mrs. Eickmann'
; adventure and she pulled a stout hatpil
from her hat.
If you come step nearer. she shouts
. 1I'l jab you with this"
Then she screamed. The man ran (
bicycle. jumped on it and hurried away
!, The police had records Of seven hold-uI
: in the same vicinity. In all Of those case
1 | rohherx " as the annarenl motive.