The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-05
DRUG DENTIST TO
GET THE LETTERS
THEN TAKES MANY MiSSlvEs
WRITTEN TO HIM nv MAR.
RED WOMAN.
HER HUSBAND GOT THEM
But Denies Having Anything to DO
With Assault When He is
Arrested BY the
Police.

New York Jan ito get poses
sion Of package Of letters written ID
him by another mans wife. come one
Fbfoke into the apartments of DR.. Geo.
/ b. King, at No. 1874 Fulton street.
| Brooklyn on Wednesday night, lxt.
him on the head with d club and
| bound his head In d towel saturated
with chlornform.
Just when all this occurred Dr. King
n not able 10 tell the police. He says
he retired at | a M and the next con-
scious moment he had was at ID d. MI.
when Albert Oliver, negro servant,
entered hs apartments to arrange
Them for the day. Oliver found every
thing in the rooms topsy turvy and he
noticed The odor Of some drug.
Oliver hurried at once to Dr. Kings
sleeping room 1t was In semi-dark.
ness and his employer was apparently
IN deep sleep. The drug fumes were
20 permeating that Oliver sought to
arouse Dr King. He could get no re-
ponse and then shook him vigorously.
After five minutes Of shaking and
houting, Dir. King moaned al If III
great pain. Presently he half rose.
and as he did SO, club rolled To the
hoor II was about q foot and a half
IN length and two inches in diameter.
Oliver picked up the weapon and
asked DIR King what 1t was doing
there
Vision of Man With Club.
Oliver saw a great black welt across
pr Kings forehead. On the pillow
was the towel that had been used to
administer the choloform.
~ ng recalled that just as he
was falling to sleep he had dreamed
some ane Was In his ROOM. Iii the vis
ion some one seemed to stand over
MIN with a club and then II all be-
rame a blank.
h'it there was q grim reality about
that dream DR.. King thinks that his
mysterious assailant was hiding n his
apartment when he arrived home
shortly before a. m. He Is dentist
and he says it IL probable that the
man who assaulted him was con
cealed behind a screen that stands in
front OF his operating chair. A search
showed that the intruder had come in
through the scuttle on tn roof and
mad then broken open a small door at
the foot of the stairway which gave
pim ingress TO DIR. Kings apartment.
The roll-top desk in the room used
Or an office, had been broken open
md every receptacle in il rffled IA
imali metal cash box in one of the
Irawers had been knocked open. an
'arently with hatchet. and il was
rom this that the package OF letters
vas taken. Obviously the thief wanted
lothlng more than these letters. for he
Iid not touch several hundred dollars
worth of gold that Or King had in
he cash box.
Ihese letters were all written by
irs' John }. Tierney to DR.. ing. She
living apart from her husband an
mpioye of life insurance company
q Manhattan DIR. King and his wife
ave not lived together for more than
~o years. Mrs. King is the daughter
Charles F. Clayton. a collector, liv.
1g at No. $50 Herkimer street.
rooklyn. All Of tue letters contained
ndearing terms. and in one OF them
Irs Tierney wrote.
Her Thanks for Garter Buckles.
Thank you very much fer the gold
lrter buckles know you must be
'bbng yourself to provide 50 much
" me. You know that love you only.
! did not I should have handsomer
Iings"
In other letters Mrs Tie-nay re-
rred TO DR. King a. "Dearie- and
sweetheart and said -he aid not
low how she had lived so long with
t MIN.
Mrs. Tierney's husband got word
rly yesterday thar Dr. King had
read The report In his neighborhood
az 1t was he tTierney) who had
oxen into his apartment. dubbed
q drgged him and taken the pack
p OF letters T.eney went at once
the Atlantic Avenue Pal!ea station
d surrendered himself AT his re-
est be was aiken to the Gates
enue Police Court and D.. King
$ sent for. The dentist admitted 10
gisirat7 Higginbotaam taat be bad
idea who his assailant vas He
2 thar If Tieney had anything 70
VIA the case he had been induced
AXE part IN il bv some one else.
n Of the letters were found IN T5ar-
pos SION bF tie Police. lie 5ald
they had been handed 70 him a
days before in Fnlton street
on.
Han came aB 10 a. ani. handing
package To ne. rema- ked that rs
'eais c1noerned ne more than aag-
else. said TierneF. He said he
srs had bern written By ny VIE
then ahile I vas examfnfnv IA