The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-14
WOMAN IS ASSAULTED
 ON WHITNEY AVENUE
ASSAILANT 4 CoLoREDM MAN WHo FOLLOWED HER FROM
 GREEN

Victim a Maid in Family of James
 Kingsley BIake-Returning Home
 From CaII-AssaiIant Saw Her Board
 Car and FoIIoWed-AIighted When
 She Did and When the Car Passed
 Grabbed Hold of Her Hair and Hurled
 Her to the Ground.
 Miss Eliza Hem, a maid employed in the family of Attorney James Kings ley Blake. was most brutally assaulted by colored man while returning to her home at MT. Blake's residence, S02 Wil- low street, shortly after g o'clock last evening. Her cries aroused the entire neighborhood and so frightened her as- sailant that he escaped without effect ing his purpose.
 Miss Hem had been out calling and she reached the corner of Church and Chapel streets a few minutes after g o'clock. She waited a moment for Whitney avenue car, which went to Cliff street
 As Miss Hem got on the car light colored man, who was standing on the corner, saw her getting on the car and Immediately followed her. Miss Hem sat on the forward seat inside the car and the colored man got onto the seat opposite her. under the cash register and sat facing her. The man had a cigar butt in his mouth and the con ductor, seeing him smoking there, went up and told him that if he wanted to smoke he must take a rear seat The colored man became. anusive and stated that he intended to remain where he was. He, however, threw the cigar away.
 Miss Hem was carried two streets beyond where she wanted to get of, to Cold Spring, street and she started to walk back to Willow street. When she got off the car the colored man also alighted. She was walking along Whit ney avenue and was within l5O feet of Gamer street when suddenly the color ed man, who was following. jumped at her back. He grabbed her hair in his hand, pulling out all the combs and hurled her to the ground. As Miss Hem fell she landed on her face and cut it severely As, the man went to grab her on the ground her cries aroused the en- I tire neighborhood and as many were hurrying to the rescue the man took fright and ran. As he ran toward canr. ner street Patrick J. Shea of 495 C,olunl- bus avenue was just turning Gamer street into Whitney avenue As he saw the running man turn into Gamer street and heard the womans s cries he tried to grab him, but the man eluded him and continued his run down Cam ner street. There were two ladies standing some distance down Gamer street and as the man saw them he started to run across the lots leading to Cold Spring woods. Tn the dark he failed to see the wire fence beside the walk and ran into 1t, receiving a bad fall; also losing his hat As soon as ! he could recover his wind he got up and climbing over the wires ran through the l lot and from thence disappeared into the Cold Spring woods.
 In the meantime the cries of Miss Hem brought many neighbors, who were sitting on their stoops nearby, to l the scene and they rendered all tho assistance possible. Miss Hem was given medical treatment. It was stat-, ed late last night that her only in- l juries were some slight bruises on the face and body caused by the fall, al- though her nervous system has receive ed a very severe shock. It is belley- (Contintied on Eighth Pagel