Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-07
TOday's Telegraphic News
Young Woman FataIIy stabbed.


Young Woman Fatally Stabbed.
New York, April IA young woman
who gave acre name as May Wilson but
refused to disclose her identity, died 10
st. Vincen,'s Hospital at 9:20 O'Clock
this morning from frightful stab wound
inflicted shortly after midnight in the
Hotel Lawrence, No. 80 east 18th street.
Before she expired she identified James
Boyne, steward of the Avon Beach reg :
ular democratic club, as the man who
stabbed her. Boyne declared be never
saw the woman before he confronted her
in the hospital for the purpose Of iden-
LITIGATION. The young woman was about
20 years old, and Boyne gave his age
as 81. Blood was found on BOyne's
hands and the sleeves of his shirt.
also upon his vest. He was arranged in
the Police Court later and committed
to await further examination The
stabbing, according to Police Captain
Bourke, is undoubtedly the work of a
degenerate with a mania fer murder.
The stabbing was most mysterious.
A man and q woman went to the Hotel
Lawrence shortly after midnight, and
after registering as "Mr. and Mrs.
Smith," we're assigned to room on the
second hoIr. An hour after the man
and the woman were in the room cry
ing sob was echoed through the block.
The scream was heard oy Mrs. Bertha
Newell, proprietress OF the house, and
by Minnie Smith, a chambermaid The
chambermsid ran to the second floor and
was peeping through the keyhole OF the
room occupied by the couple, when the
door was thrown open and man rush
ed out, hat and oyercoat in hand. On
the bed lay the woman fully dressed,
with blood pouring from great wound
in her abdomen. The chambermaid
followed TIE man to the ground floor.
Mrs. Newell and the chambermaid tried
to catch hold of the man, when he said:
81 have not stabbed any one. |
am perfectly willing to wait for the
police" Detectives Lloyd and Ken
yoi, who happened to be ne,r by and
who heard the shrek, came up and
placed the man under arrest. One Of
the detectives went up to the room and
tried to arouse the woman but she closed
her eyes and refused to give any infor'
nation. 1t was plain that she was try
ing 10 protect the man, and that she was
concealing her own identity. An smbn-
lance was called, and the woman was
removed to st. Vincent's hospital. There
it was found that four inches OF broken
knife blade was still in her abdomen.
The blade had pierced the abdomen wall,
and had made half dozen punctures in
her intestines. The doctors told her
she would die, but she remained obsti-
nately silent. A search of the room 10
which the stabbing occurred brought
forth a broken case-kniie, the blade of
which had been about fourteen inches
long. The knife did not belong to the
house, and had been brought there by
either the man or the woman.
Boyne was taken to the Mercer street
police station and questio ned at length.
He persisted in his first statement that
he did not know the woman, that he
had never seen her before, and that he
had not stabbed her. Later he was taken
to the hospital and into the presence of
the dying woman. "He stabbed you,
you say" Captain Bourke asked the
woman after she had identified Boyne.
ayes, he did," she answered. IL met
him at Third avenue last night. He
asked me to go with him, and did, like
a fol that was. was talking with
him in the room when suddenly he seized
me from behind and plunged knife in
to my side. | tried to fight him of,
and | did, Then he ran at me and
buried the knife in my stomach. | don't
know Why he did it. We had no quar-
rel and no angry words