The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-15
WOMAN WHIPPED
BURLY BURGLAR
Mrs, Ewald, Of York Street,
a Middle Aged Matroa,
Took iron Jimmy From
Els Grasp and Smashed
Dining Room Window

Mrs. sr e Ewald, of No ssS York
street, Yesterday afternoon struggled for
over five 1ninutes with a desperate burg
lar and finally wrested an iron Jimmy two
feet in length and which he held threat
eningly over her head with his left hand
clutched at her throat, from his grasp.
And when with his weapon she ran into
her dining room and smashed a front
window the burglar fed, fearing the
crowd that would naturally gather. He
escaped.
Mrs. Ewald is a middle aged matron,
anr hair, though still luxuriant is turn
ing gray. She believes in physical Gull
ture and daily takes her calesthenci ex-
ercises. In sodoing she has developed
muscle. The burglar with whom she
fought for her life was a strapping, ro-
bust man of twenty-four years. Nj.
Ewald, her husband, is a well known
Newark avenue stationer The hired girl
recently left the family. MINIS Ewald's
twenty year old daughter Florence went
out to do someshopping yesterday after
noon shortly before three o'clock and left
her mother alone, telling her that she
would return through the basement door
which closes with a spring lock.
Mrs. Ewald sat near one of the win
dows in the dining room awaiting her
daughters return. Suddenly there was
a ring at the doorbell of endorsement.
Thinking it was abeggar she paid no at
tention. She was surprised to find that
the door was Immediately tried and that
thiswas Immediately followed by a 1ec-
ond ring of the bell The curtains OF
the windows were well down and Mrs.
Ewald. peeping from one of the windows
F1,., L
was well dressed and Mrs. Ewald recalled
the fact that q man had been summon
ed to remedy a defect in the chimney of
the house, she went to the door to admit
him. The door fefiw open with a bang,
and there stood before her a young man
with a jimmy as described above Both
We're stunned with anna cement.
Damn ycu!'. finally shouted the burg
lar, grabbing the woman by the htroat,
eIll kill you for this
But he had reckoned without his host.
With his superior musclar strength he
had thrown Mrs. Ewald to the floor, but
she still grappled with him and succee
ell in wrenching the iron Jimmy from tho
burglars grasp and, regaining he feet,
she ran from him and entering the din
irg room she smashed out one of the VIM
dows with the Jimmy and leaped through
the lower sash into the areaway. TIE
burglar lad not followed her and hear
ing the smash of the glass, the burglar
fed, knowing that crowd would soen
gather The house is located near the
corner of York and aVrick streets. The
burglar field diagonally to the opposite
corner OF York and arick vstreers, al
most knocking down a school teac lsT in
his laaG flight and escaped across vacant
lots. DR. Parsons, who did not knew
what had really happend, followed him,
but did not succeed in capturing him.
BY this time a crowd of more than one
hundred persons had ga.thered-most
mostly school children ON their Way
home from school. Mrs. Ewald vas still
in possession ofthe Jimmy and she hand
ed it over to the police.
81 don't know how I did IT, said Mrs.
Ewald last night. II believe in physical
culture and old as I am have developed
some muscle. He therw me down and
my right hip and elbow are still sore
My husband ahd always told me to
smash window in the event of being
surprised by a burglar and that was my
first thought. The jimmy was the first
thing to do it with I thought he was
following me. 1 reminder that he seem
from his grasp and he let go of me- Can
I describe him. Well, yes, although,
woman like l was about hysterical while
we fought for fully five minutes. He was
five feetsix inches tall, of slender build,
smooth face, dressed in a. gray suit and
wore a brown derby hat. He could not
have been more than twenty-four years
Old