The Washington times., 1906-05-11
Miss Turner Says She
Was Assaulted on
Street.
SUSPECT IS ARRESTED
Police Probing Into Affair
Reported to Have Occurred
in Northeast Last Night.

--arlIcked. she says. by colored man
| at Fourteenth and A streets northeast
Asiss Virginia Turner, thirty-hve wears
old. OF IA Fourteenth street. was struck
IN the mouth several times last night
about 10 o'clock. Her assailant, how
ever. made no attempt TO do her fur
ther harm or TO snatch her pocketbook,
containing $ in paper money and some
! change.
Detectives CornweIl and Muller Of the
Central Office and police OF the Ninth
I precinct investigated the case all night
and this morning about . O'Clock Police
man Wilson. Of the northeast district.
arrested a hatless. drunken coIored man.
who gave the name Of Hayman New,
man, twenty-seven years old Miss Tur-
| ner saw the man and said he looked and
/ talked Ike her assailant. Il won't be
/ positive. though she added. and ia
/ prefer that you drop the case"
As this is the sikh assault recently
/ reported to have been made by colored
men on women the police have no IN
tention Of dropping the case until every
/ clue has been investigated
Miss Turner'S Story.
Miss Turner says she was on her wav
! home at the time she was attacked
and dealt a series Of vicious blows in
! the mouth. She got OF a car at Four
1 teenth and East Capitol streets about
$50 and started walking north on Four
teenth street When she had walked
/ block colOred man, said 70 be very
/ dark, about five feet nine inches tall
and wearing dark clothes and a derby
/ hat, crept up behind her She heard
/ footsteps and turned TO see who was
| following. AS she was about 10 speak
| the man drew back his fist at arms
/ length and struck her squareIy IN the
mouth. When she tried 10 scream the
/ man struck her again and again and
/ then ran away.
/ Miss Turner says she was carrying
/ her pocketbook in her right hand. and
/ 1t would have been an easy matter for
1 the highwayman TO have wrested It from
( her grasp, but he made no attempt
/ whatever TO rob her.
After the alleged assault Miss Turner
went to the East Capitol street car
/ barn. There she met a workman nau,ed
/ Gillian, to whom she exhibited the cut
/ on her lip and stated that she had been
assaulted by a colored man who ran
away before she could summon assIs-
tance. One Of the car barn employees
! accompanied her home.
Reticent About the Case.
When Policeman Wilson went on duty
near the car barn he was Informed nv
the wortmen that a colored man had
| Drutally beaten a white woman and WAS
believed 10 be in hiding In the vicinity or
the sheds. Wilson went TO the Four
teenth street house. but was unable 10
I learn much OF the assault He ascer-
tained the location Of the alleged at
tack and went there 10 make an iuves-
ugatlon- While crossing the northwest
commons Wilson came upon Newman
who was staggering around talking 70
himself
Newman was taken to the Ninth pre-
clhct station and questioned by all the
policemen there. He said he went to
q uance at Linden, Md, and came 10 !
Washington on a street car. He in
tended going to Anacostia but at Ninth |
and + streets northwest he rnistook a
Lincoln Park car for the one going ~ |
the Eastern Branch suburb, and fen |
asleep He says he was awakened bv a I
conductor on an owl car about o'cIocl, /
tnlS morning and put Off at Thfrteenth I
and East Capitol streets because he re
fused to pay nickel after giving tba !
street line. Ne N'Hlh
Think Prisoner Tells Truth.
Lieut.. John Daley. of the Ninth
precinct station, says he is inclined to |
DelleVe NeWman's story and does not
thlnK the prisoner is the man who is
alleged 10 have assaulted Miss Turner
Lieutenant Daley stated that Miss Tur-
ner seemed disinclined to talk of tho
attack. and he doubted If she could
identify her assailant. because she did
not get good look at him.
1t is said the police were informed
that the conductor on an east-bo1ind
car which reached the East Capitol car
barn about $50 O'Clock saw Miss T1lr-
ner on the car with a weIl-dressed. rre-
possessing man about her own age ana
the TWO got on at the end of the line. |
MISS turner IS said to have been in |
advance of the man. The police ara !
looking for the conductor so as to ascar- !
tain whether or not there was a quar- |
the woman.
The police purpose making every pos-
sibie effort to clear up the case. al
though they are not satisfied that there |
was colOred man in the affair Such
cases tend to reflect on the efficiency
of the force, and the police and de-
tectives have instructions to spare no
energy in finding the man who struck
Miss Turner. whether he is white or
colored. They say Miss Turner'S atti-
tude in the matter gives rise TO the
belief that she has not told all she
knows about the case and may be en-
deavoring to shield some one.
1t is likely that Newman viii be re-
leased this afternoon.
To Baltimore and Return, SI.2s,
Via Pennsylvania Railroad, every Sat
urday and Sunday. All regular trains
except the Congressional Limited. . Tick
cts good to return until SUNDAY night