The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-06
MYSTERY PILED ON MYSTERY.
ETOOD. THREATS, DERISIVE
LAUGHTER AND A RED STRING.
sullivan Awakes Suddenly From Uncon-
sclousncss. Reveals plot and Shows Up
Nillaln-A Weird Superstructure
nm Basis OF Stolen Railroad Tickets.


The story OF strange adventure which
vo,ing Samuel Sullivan of Arlington, Staten
island. tells is one OF the most remarkable
which has ever come out OF even darkest
staten Island. It has got villains and
nsr-md In it, threatening letters, nocturnal
.-saults and mysterious warnings 70 an
unknown "soucaler Samuel himself being
one Of two supposed "squealers' the dark
md scrawlinG villain is understood to be
after,
And one Of the NEST remarkable features
NJ this villains methods is that after he has
rot his victims down. unconscious and
wholly at his mercy, he contents himself
with merely inhicting few trifiing
scratches. made apparently with an ordinary
min point. on the helpless victims person.
A.. was related in The Sun yesterday,
voune Mr.. Sullivan was found lying on
The ground Just outside the little Arlington
railroad station early on Wednesday even
ing lie was apparently unconscious, and
apparently in pitable plight. His face and
coat we're smeared with blood, his overcoat
and hat we're found lying on the station
platform. his collar and necktie had been
torn of and lay on the ground a short
distance away.
II was Mrs Samuel King. the wife OF a
.trelnnan on the Rapid Transit road, who
hrst discovered Sullivan's plight. She
xas in the little box Of a railroad station.
ouite alone waiting to give her husband
bis luncheon basket when his train arrived.
She heard means outside under the win
dow She looked out and saw a dark OBJ
,ert living in the narrow path under an
arbor which is close up to the rear oil the
railroad station. She ran out and ex-
smined the object. The object proved to
he Samuel lying in the condition above
described Ii seemed plain he had been
assaulted by some one. Mrs. King raised
an outcry and soon neighbors and railroad
men came hurrying to the spot. Among
them was Mrs. Sullivan, Samuels mother,
who lived only few doors away. Samuel
was carried into the station and laid on the
floor He was still apparently unconscious.
moaning and muttering inooherenuy.
The station agent. William Hagadorn, who
had gone home for the day, came running
over He sent in a startling telephone
message to the railroad authorities at st.
George The authorities ordered that the
wounded man be brought with all speed
10 New Brighton. st. Nincent's Hospital
got rush message to hurry an ambulance
10 meet the train. The ambulance went
tearing out of its shelter at such speed
way 10 the station it was partly smashed
in a founder through snowdrift. But
IL DOT there on time and there was enough
Of Il left to hustle Samuel TO the hospital.
But even before the injured young man
was got aboard the train at Arlington the
mysteries in the case began TO develop.
One Of those who were working over him
noticed something tied TO his left wrist
with piece OF red wrapping Irvine: 1t
proved 10 bS worn and crumpled bit OF
brown paper that had evidently been folded
and creased and carried in somebody's
pocket for a long time. In large letters
and IN laboriously disguised hand there was
written in lead pencil on both sides of the
paper this dark and ominous communica-
ton evidently fresh from the reehng hand
of Samuel's asSailant.
There is one more life that belongs to me
n he does not destroy those railroad tickets
| sold him he, will get the same az thus big
20 | made quick work Of him. and the other
will get the same. Look out. DO as bid
You and you win be left. Ia "a BY, by
tickets sold him / would Kill him there on
the spot FOR the money. When l ask you
By the dim light of railroad lantern
this awful missive was spelled out to the
horror stricken group of Arlington men
and women who we're gathered about
When they came 10 the villains hoarse'
hendish laugh OF eXultation expressed in
the words ia TIA! By by I'm or shud- |
der ran through the assembly. and there
we're nervous glances at the station win
doSs. The villain might even then be
gancug in on theml
But this was only the beginning OF the |
mysteries. At the hospital doctors and
attendants hustled the unconscious Samuel |
10 an operating table. Cautiously they
began looking him over for the mortal
hurt The more they looked the more !
surprised they were There WASH { a trace !
g IN no
on Samue's person, After a careful med |
ical inventory the sum total Of Samuel's !
damages footed up 70 one scratch across |
tho forehead. three scratches across the
palm Of his right hand and two scratches |
on his breast. Each and every one OF |
thee scratches just broke through the !
skin enough TO bleed rather freely and |
might have been made by an ordinary pin |
point Or Brady WIS inclined 70 the |
oiinion that they bad been made by PIN |
point
50 tho hospital people were confronted |
with two mysteries. In the first place it |
was a mystery TO them why they had been /
summoned at breakneCk speed-iuvolving /
so worth of barn door and ambulance /
wrecAage--to attend a young man afflicted |
with six pin scratches. In the second |
place was a mystery why an able bodied |
young man should remain unconscious !
f0r hours from the effects of pin scratches. |
There wax not trace Of drugs 70 be dis (
covered and sullivan had not in the least (
suffered from exposure during the brief /
time he lay out Of doors. The doctors 4
wore inclined 10 diagnose the unconscious
nes' voluntary
About o'clock yesterday morning |
Samuel suddenly stopped being uncon- /
Ncou, Then IL was that he told tale so
thrilling and bedevi!led with mystery |
upon mystery that the other little puzzlers /
IN his ca,o became lucidity itself By com
pari.ou
u seems that he is afflicted 10y the deadly |
ennIty ~ a person 10y him described under |
ihe general term OF an "EyetaiiRn." Tho |
fyeahln is tho villain and the ber-lud he I
j. after Is SGmuels ber-lrd- Samuel's and /
rnother rarity 10 Samuel unknown, but 1
darE'y limited al in the orlinous cornmunica-
uon attached 10 Samuel's left wrist with
red string
The experience Of the Arlington railroad (
station In the matter Of railroad tickets 4
has been peculiar. Apparently when any |
body wanted railroad tickets without going
through the tedious Formally Of Eaying |
ior them he took the stove hook in the pas
snge ROOM pried open the ticket Office .
ooor and helped himself This was the .
practice prior 10 December last and in that
month II was done twice. This was more .
haa rho proper monthly allowance OF .
tWeares and the station agent concen- /
tTaied his mind on foilinR the villains;
'arpy thought struck him. He fixed /