The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-01-11
COLORED MAN BRUTALLY
 ASSAULTS YOUNG GIRL
ON GEORGE, STREET LATE LAST
 EVENING.

Tried to Choke Her to Stop Her Out cries-Dragged Her Into pr. Little johns Side Yard. Corner of waverIy
 street-Threw Her on Ground and Struggle. Ensued = NeighborhOod Aroused but Assailant Escapes. Another brutal assault of young girl by a colored man occurred on George street, near Wayerly street, at I1:2O o'clock last night. The victim is Nell lie Shea of 94 Asylum street, and the assailant is unknown to the police.
 Miss Shea is sixteen years old and as q result of the assault she has a very
 badly cut and swollen eye, cuts on her throat where the colored man grabbed
 her, several minor bruises about the
 body caused by her being thrown on
 the ground, and is also suffering from a severe nervous shock. es Gzs.
 Nellie Shea is the daughter of Mich ael Shea. who is employed by the rail-
 road company at Long wharf. Her
 mother is dead and she keeps house for her father Last night she and girl companion named Nellie English of 231 Goffe street went to Polls theater. The English girls father is dead and she resides with her mother, Ellen N. English. -
 At 11:20 o'clock the girls reached the corner of George and Day streets on their way home from the theater. At
 the corner the girls parted, the English girl going towards her home down Day
 street, while Miss Shea continued on
 out George street. She explained her reason for so doing to the police after
 wards, instead of going down Day street to her hone, by saying that she
 intended 10 take the shorter route through what is known as ''the cut.
 She had scarcely gone hals a block
 before she heard a man, who was walk
 ing along on the other side of the street
 whistling.
 She paid no attention to him, and as she arrived in front of Dr. Litttlejohns s house at the corner of Waverly street
 he ran across the street towards Der.
 As she stopped he jumped for her and hit her a most vicious blow in the left
 eye with some hard substance which she said afterwards she thought was a piece of ice which he was carrying in
 his hand. As she staggered he dragged
 her into the side yard of pr. Little- johns property, his hands about her throat choking her. As he did so she commenced to fight him at the same time yelling Murder, murder as loud as she could.
 Dr. Littlejohn's little dog set up a furious barking which awakened the entire neighborhood, and windows were thrown up in both the doctors
 house and the house next door, which is occupied by Mir. Thomas and family
 and MT. Willard and his daughter. Both Miss. Willard and Miss Littlejohn were awakened and as soon as they looked out of the window and saw the struggle they cried out to the man to release her. Hearing the disturbance the assaiIant became frightened, and jumped the fence into the Thomas
 yard and escaped.
 As soon as the girl was released she staggered to the saloon kept by MT, Nc Manus on Day street and gave the alarm. Constable Peter J. McNerney and several friends were standing by the doorway, and as soon as the con- stable discovered the cause of the girls alarm he, with several others, rushed in pursuit of the colored man, while pr. Littlejohn, who had just arrived on the scene, took the girl into his office for | treatment, The girl was in a fainting condition and the doctor worked over
 her for some time. She was later taken to her home by Policeman Barry. The entire neighborhood in which the assault occurred had been aroused by
 this time, and numbers Of the male res- idents broke up into hunting parties, each carrying lanterns, and all under the leadership of Constable McNerney. Dg. Littlejohn notified Sergeant Cook at police headquarters and he sent out a general alarm, and Detective Ward,
 who was in charge of the detective bu- reau, also hurried to the scene. As he got there he met Sergeant Doherty and
 Policeman Barry, and most thorough search was instituted.
 The only person who saw the man was Miss Shea, and this is the descrip- tion she gives of him. He was mid dle-aged man, rather heavily built, about five feet seven or eight inches tall. He was light colored and the girl is not sure whether he had moustache or not although she thinks he had. He wore no overcoat and had on dark sack coat and dark pants. The police are now making thorough search for him, but have yet discovered no clue to his identity. &'