The sun., 1903-05-13
WOMAN DAZED FROM A BLOW.
.ssArLTED AND FOCND IN A
STRANGE PLACE.
u,,s Margaret Crane OF waterbury. Conn,
DISCO, cred Partly Dressed and with
skull, Cracked In a Tenement Hall
q, A. M.--Was At Fortune Teller's.

at IA. M.-Was NJ Fortune TeIier's.
North WATERBURY,, Conn, May l2.-Miss
Narearet Crane, a middle-aged woman
-, his CITY, well-known in several OF Water
hury's religious organizations and fra
,,rna, orders. was found early this morn
,,,c in the hallway Of a tenement house
an school street, semi-consco,is and with
har face covered with blood. She was
o,,v par,iallv dressed Her hat and skirt
,or. gone and she carried her black silk
,,o,,icoat on her arm. Her hair was dis
beveled and matted with blood from
wound on the top of her head made ap-
uarently with a club. She Is lying in the
Waterbury Hospital tonight unable to
,eI what happened to her and she may
die without regaining consciousness.
Miss Crane is the daughter OF John Crane,
vho lives at George street. Her brother,
Hugh j Crane. is an undertaken here,
Miss Crane has the reputation of being a
woman Of exemplary conduct, and her
friends are NJ a loss to account for her con-
dition except in the suggestion that she was
assaulted and was either carried or wandered
into the hallway Of the tenement house
afterward.
Miss Crane has been employed for sew
oral wears in the office Of the Waterbury
Manufacturing Company. She has been
an active member of the Roman Catholic
Church of the Immaculate Conception for
long time and is prominent in the church's
organizations. She is president Of the
woman's Auxiliary of the Ancient Order
or Hibernans and also an officer of the
Gaelic Society. She is Al years old. but
looks much younger, is tall with pretty
face and has light hair and eyes.
10 ,Nnlica M 10 heep working the
all day, but have not secured any clue that
would warrant an arrest. They know
that Miss Crane left her house at about
,oclock last night and that she met a friend
they have not been able to get any trace
Of where she was from that time until she
was discovered In the tenement house about
o'clock in the morning. When Miss
Crane LETT her house, she said, accordins
Patrick's Hall on East Main street, where
she was to preside at a meeting Of the
Hibernian Auxiliary Society.
But she went instead, 1t has been learned,
10 the home OF a friend, Mrs. Anna Barrett,
the Crane house.
With Mrs Barrett she went downtown
to see Mrs. Carlotta Wright, palmist and
fortune teller. who lives on West Main
street Mrs. Wright is a friend of Mrs.
Barrett, but, according to her own state
ment had never seen the Crane woman
before. Mrs Barrett and Miss Crane. the
palmst says, each paid her rs cents and had
their fortunes told. Mrs Barrett told the
police that she could not remember whether
any fortune-telling was done or not. Mrs.
Wright says that she told Miss Crane in
reading her palm that she was going TO
have lots of trouble and that she saw two
lovers, one dark and tall and the other
light and short Miss Crane, she says. was
intensely interested in her remarks and
asked most seriously II she would ever
marry either OF them.
The fortune teller says that tne women
ing which Miss Crane had on hand was
scheduled for 8. and, according to Mrs
Barrett. Miss Crane and she separated at
the Four Corners on Main street, Miss Crane
last definitely known about her until she
was found dazed and bleeding. Her friends
say that she did not go past the hal as they
waited outside for her until $50 o'clock.
School street, in which she was found,
is a dark. narrow lane running through
from Fast Main street to Scoville street,
The houses in it are occupied chiefly by
foreigners. Four families live in No. 4s;
covered the injured woman He heard
her stumbling around in the hallway on
The second floor. She could not say any
thing coherent, but kept mumbling some
thing about Scoyille street and calling out
the name OF Foley. patrolman was
summoned and the woman was taken TO
p,lice headquarters and then to her home
She was removed to the hospital this morn
ing.
way, or about the building. Other people
in the tenement house say they heard
hack drive UP some time in the night The
police believe that Miss Crane was assaulted
crirnnally after being hit on the head.
Her people say that she was accustomed to
carry with her considerable money be-
longing to the organization in which she
was interested, and that she had some
money with her last night. Her pocket
The examination at the hospital showed
that she had been hit on the top Of the head,
probably with a club. The skull was not
fractured, but there is a bad concussion OF
the brain The city is greatly wrought up
over the assault and there are threats to
Use violence on the man who did II il he is
caught The police have not been able to
got any trace yet Of the woman's missing
skirt and hat
They have learned, they say, that two
women went to the fortune teller again
last night at about $50 o clock. Mrs Wright
saws that it is true, but that her husband
went TO the door and refused to let them in.
He could not tell. she says, who they were.
The police intend to find out. il they can.
who the women were,