The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-07
GIRL STABBED A LITTLE BIT.
SECOND TINE, TOO MOTHER AND
SISTER SAW MAN.
Queer Intruder Sends for Police While He
Examines the WOund-He's Locked
Up-Attack I'm Hallway Followed by
Letter Threatening Victim With Death.

Mary Cahill, the seventee n-year-old
daughter of william D.. Cahill, an inspector
in the Department of Highways, entered
her bedroom in the apartment house at
14O1 Webster avenu yesterday afternoon
and found a man sitting on the window sill.
She screamed, and when her mother and
sister rea ched the room the man was Jump
ing out OF the window into the courtyard
and the girl was lying on the floor with a
slight stab wound in the breast.
She said the man stabbed her, and the
family and the fremont police believe that
some one is trying to take the girls life.
On February 10, when the girl was in the
hallway outside her parents apartment
about to light the gas, she was set upon,
she says, by a man who stabbed her in the
bach and then ran out Of the front door.
She had a slight wound and the cut in her
waist indicated that the knife was DETECTED
by hitting a corset steel.
At that time the case was Immediately
reported to the fremont police and Capt.
Brennan put some detectives at work.
They didn't unearth anything, and the
family couldn't help them by supplying a
motive unless some one was Jealous or
the girl. She had no enemies that they
knew of and no bloodshirsy suitors.
A day or two later a letter was received
by the Cahill girl, which contained this
sentence:
I'VE know the police have been to see
you. Next time we will kill you
Other threats of a similar nature were
received, go the family say, and her parents
were careful not to allow the girl to go any
where alone. Yesterday afternoon about 5
o'clock she left her mother and sister in
the front room of their apartment, which
is on the ground floor, and went into her
bedroom.
When she opened the door. she says. she
noticed that the window into tho airshaft
was open and that a man was sitting on the
windowsill. He was short and stocky, she
says, and had a fierce black mustache. He
wore a black slouch hat, a soft blue shirt
and a collar to match, no waistcoat and
patent leather shoes. She is sure she never
saw hlm before.
The police think the girl has remarkable
powers of observation, as she told them that
the man sprang at her almost instantane,
ouSly with an open penknife in his hand
and jabbed it at her right breast. 1t didn't
do much damage, but she fell, and, she
declares, he was about to stab her again
when her mother and sister, who heard her
screams, ran into the room. They both
say they saw the man.
The man, they say. jumped out Of the
window to the bottom of the aiTshaft. ran
to the back yard and from there into Bath
gate avenue. No more was seen OF him.
The screams of the women attracted several
men from the street, who thought some
one was being murdered. and among them
was one who said he was a policeman, He
vas in citizens dress and he told one man
to run for a physician while he himself
examined the girls wound. He declared
that it didn't amount to much and then
left to call the police, he said.
On the street he met Policeman Wood
and old him about the case.
Who are you?" asked Wood.
I'm an officer, said the man.
Wood asked to see his shield and as the
man hadn't any Wood took him to the
apartment where the Cahills told what he
had done, Then Wood took his prisoner
to the fremont police station, whore he
was locked up on a charge of intoxication
ard disorderly, .conduota He appeared to
have been drinking.
The Cahills thought he might nave some
thing to do with the case. but none of them
had ever seen him before. At the station
the man said he was Edward Stanley of
POI East Fifty-seventh street, an employee
of the Water Department in The BRONX
He didn't explain his strange actions,
Several detectives were set to work to
try and find the mysterious assailant. Miss
CahilI said she couldn't tell whether or not
he was the man who had stabbed her on
February Is, as the hall was 20 dark or that
occasion that she could not see her assailant.