The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-09-10
Mrs. Jesse Remer Has an Encounter
With Daring Knight OF the Road
and is Slightly Injured
REFUSED FOOD He GIVES BATTLE
Police and Neighbors Scour the Town for
the Assailant But Fail to Find Him
Caution Needed by Housewives

There was great excitement in the
third ward of the city last night when
a bur1y tramp com United an assault on
Mrs. c. 2. kemer, wife of the well
known president of the M. H. Petit
Mailing Company. Happily Mrs Re-
mer escaped with slight injuries, but
had the people residing in the neigh
borhood found her assailant it is prob.
able that he would have borne through
life the souvenir of his assault upon
the well known lady.
Mrs. Remer was alone ia the house
at the time of the assault and was pre-
pairing dinner in the kitchen when she
heard knock at the rear door. She
opened the door and discovered a man
in tattered garments standing on the
doorstep. The fellow asked for some
thing to eat and Mrs. Remer informed
him that she had nothing for him.
The tramp smelled the toothsome NOR
sells cooking on the stove and at once
became desperate. His request for
| food became demand and he lunged
forward into the room. Mrs. Remer
attempted to shut the door in the
fellows face but he was insistent and
managed to force the door open. He
again renewed his demand for a por-
ton of the food on the stove and Mrs.
Remer again refused At that time
the man uttering terrible oath grasp.
ed Mrs. Remer about the arm and
rea ching toward his pocket for a knife
he shouted, you I will cut your
arm off," Mrs. Remer was greatly
frightened by the actions of the man
and she shouted for help at the top of
her voice. The man then attempted.
to strike her and to put his hand over
her mouth, but his victim broke away
and ran through the house and manag-
ed to arouse some of the neigh b ors
The fellow seeing that he was about to
be discovered jumped over the fence
and made off as fast as his legs would
carry him. AS soon as Mrs. Remer re-
covered from the shock, she called her
husband by phone and Mr.. Remer &C.
companied by three police officers
ANAIAGA AOAACs LII d A1uulG posse Oh
police and citizens had been organized
and search for the vagrant was start
ed. In the meantime the man had run
south, and it is supposed that he is still
running. The police and members of
the posse searched for the fellow for
over an hour but no trace of him could
be found.
Mrs. Remer has given the officers
good description of the man and if he
can be captured ne will be prosecuted
to the fullest extent Of the law.
1t is claimed that large number of
tramps are menacing the safety of
women in the third ward and while
that is the first report of an actual
assault by the wanderers several
women IN that part of the city have
been threatened when they refused to
give food to the tramps.
Mrs. Remer was not seriously iniur-
ed in her fight with the tramp but her
arm was badly bruised and she is still
suffering from the shock of the Incl
dent.
The police have been given orders to
drive all tramps and Migrants outof the
city and it is proba BILE that the acct
dent to Mrs. Remer will result in some
of the Weary Willies" fighting shy
of Kenosha for several weeks to come.