The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-01
GIRL SHOOTS HER ACCOSTER.
STRUGGLE on LONELY ROAD FOR
POSSESSION or WEAPON.
Brooklyn Young woman Bound TO Country
for Rest Loses Her Way FOLLOWED by
-Four Men. n Threatens Them with
RevOly er -Help From Automobiles.

RevOly er Help From AutOmObIlist.
ENoLEwooD. n. j., Oct. N.-Held all day
to-day in the snail police prison in his
ship, with a charge Of atroCious assault
against her, is Florence lie Forester, a
Brooklyn girl, who shot down a man named
John lyman. who she believed approached
her with evil intent in street in Bergenfield
last night. The a who was running
away at the time, got the bullet in his left
shoulder, He is in the Englewood hospital.
but the chances are that he will soon be out
and around.
The girl was to ave been arraigned before
Justice OF the Peace Rixler this morning,
but her lawyer Recorder Huckin, announced
that she waived examination. she was
held in $500 bail for the Grand Jury. Her
mother, Mrs Mary lie Forester, of Ill
Madison street, Brooklyn, was here later
In the day and she left to get bail If pos
sible. The girl was not permitted to make
q statement. The Grand Jury does not
convene until December and IL may be
almost two months before she can be in
dicted, much less brought to trial.
A story that Mrs. lie Forester, after
seeing her daughter, declared was sub
stantially correct started out by saying
that the girl. who for some months has
been In a highly nervous condition. left for
the home OF her brother. George. who has
= farm at Spring Valley, yesterday after
noon. Her mother telephoned that his
sister was coming up. 40 that he would be
at the train to meet her. IL seems almost
certain that the girl took the wrong train.
She wound up at West Nyack at about
A.Ie za.k ~t~ ,pol.,lr IL "a aix VoiIoa or 40
from West Nyack to Spring Valley. which
ia on the line OF the Northern Railroad
81 New Jersey. She probably took the
New York and New Jersey road.
When she got there, as far as can be
learned, she found out that she could get
no train to Spring Valley and no convey
ance. SO she took the 7l4 p. NJ. train from
West Nyack, probably intending to go
back to Jersey City and so home. When
she boarded the train there was among
the passengers Marshal John Huyler Of
B~ergenfield. He noticed that she got up
at zach station to see where h was. and he
concluded that she needed looking after.
He says that the conductor OF the train
called his attention to the fact that the
young woman had the butt OF a big revolver
showing in the bosom of her jacket. Mrs.
lie Forester says that her daughter was
taking the revolver up to her brothers
place for him and the boys to Use in target
shooting. She believes that the daughter.
being so nervous. took the revolver out
of her suit case with a view to l~ntimidatlng
any one who might annoy her.
Marshal Huyler had another theory.
He beloved that the woman was the mys-
FERROUS female Of the automobile burglar
gang, especially as hat woman had been
traced to TenaAy. which is on that railroad
branch and not far from Englewood. When
she got up 10 get out at Bergenfield, his
own station, he followed, naturally. She
walked along uncertainty and then stopped
IT. the house OF w II Demarest, a grocer
st Bergenheld Knowing the Demarests,
Huyler's suspicious were allayed and he
vent home to get his supper.
Mrs Demsrest says that the girl came
in and said she wanted TO get TO Engle-
wood and that she wanted a wagon. She
had only a few cents, but offered a gold
watch as security il they would let her
have the wagon They had none. n in
any event Mrs. Demarest wanted to wait
until her husband came home. Shortly
afterward the girl left the house after
talking in a highstrung way and started
to walk away
She walked in the direction of Sparkil
A wagon passed her in which were seated
X. G. Bucler and lyman. lyman is a
plumbers helper and works for Bucler.
The latter asked the girl if, she wanted a
lift and where she was going.
I'm going to Englewood, she is declared
to hsve said. That's my affair. Let me
alone"
But you're going in the wrong direction
said Bucler.
Never you mind she replied. ATTEND
to your own AFFAIRS
The girl evidently was fright ened. Buc-
Ter drove on and met Huyler. He spoke to
the marshal about the girl, saying that she
ought to be taken in to be cared for.
Huyler's earlier suspicious arose again and
he told lyman to get out Of the wagon and
shadow the girl. He and a man named G..
J. Kelly nd Bucler drove on after her.
They found that she had turned about and
was headed for Englewood.
When she heard them coming she got
much more frightened. At the u&ne they
we're a mile away from Bergenfield, near
the township line Of Teaneck and EnRle-
wood. As the wagon approached. with
lyman walking in front of it, she apparently
was sure that she was about to be a ttacked.
She drew out the revolver. and as Huylcr
made q move to get out she said:
IF you move ri shoot you"
Huyler sat still, nut called to lyman:
Grab the revolver
lyman grabbed the girl from behind
and was wrestling with her when an auto
mobile owned by Arthur Sherwood, con-
nected with the firm of Harvey Fisk 4
Sons, at 90 Cedar street, New York, came
along. Sherwood jumped out and seeing
only the struggle struck lyman several
times. The plumber let go. As he did
the girl raised the revolver. She dis
charged IL at lyman. stumbling away. and
he fell.
The appearances Of the automobile quite
assured Huyler thai this was the auto
gang, until he saw Mr.. Sherwood and a
companion named Gerald NJ. Curran, an
other wealthy Englewood man. Sherwood
took the man and the woman to the Engle-
wood police station, the revolver having
been taken away from her.
In the station house the girl became
1uite hysterlcal and could say almost
nothing. She asked that her mother be
sent for. Her suit case was searched and
N il was found a flask Of whiskey hat her
mother put in in case she should have a
falntIng spell.
The girl was much better this morning,
althoughenaturally her ervousnes was not