Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20
THE "UNWRITTEN LAW"
FRANK ANDREWS BEATS A BUsI.
NESS MAN BADLY.

NEW YORK, February 2O.-"I applied
the unwritten law. l avenged dastardly
outrage, and gave the man the whipping
he deserved"
So Frank T. Andrews, an electrical engi-
neer, of No. 40 Locust street, Flushing
explained and justified, yesterday, a terri
BILE beating which he gave Charles Emery
whilom member Of the Flushing real estate
firm of Dalgleish & Emery, who has left
Flushing, Mr.. Dalgleish says, never to
return.
believe every one will applaud the
course 1 have TAKEN" said Mr.. Andrews
to World reporter yesterday. my daugh-
ter Edna is young, mex experienced girl not
yet eighteen. She was engaged stenog-
rapher in the law office of Drew & Lind.
sey near the office of Dalgleish & Emery,
There she met this man Emery. who is a
widower of about forty. and 1 believe she
did some typewriting for him.
Cause Of the Trouble.
Edna is clever and ambitious. To inn
prove herself she attended the night classes
at Flushing High School. On Wednesday
might last she left home as usual to attend
her class. When at 10 she did not return
became anxious. 1 started out to- find
her. l walked about the streets till 2.
saw all IeT ITleuOS, Dut none Oh tnem
could give me news of Edna.
EARLY on Thursday morning after a
sleepless night, l hurried to Long Island
City. where she has been employed since
last October, and there, in her Office, I
saw Edna. 1 asked her where she had
been and she told me she had been to a
party at Queens with lot of friends from
Flushing, and finding that it was too late to
return, she had stopped the night. going
no afv.r
Il tried to verify this story, but not one
OF the people my daughter mentioned had
seen her, whereupon l returned to her
office and demanded the truth. Edna then
confessed that she had told me an untruth,
but that she had merely repeated the state
ment which Emery had told her to make.
Bit by bit, after patient questioning, I
got the facts of the After school
she had met Emery and he suggested that
she should accompany him to New York
and have supper. He said he would see me
and explain, and she, thinking there could
be no harm, as he was old enough to be
her father, consented. She told me that
they had gone to New York. had some sup
per and then stopped the night there.
L was naturally furious when | heard
this. l really did not know which way to
turn. / saw the district attorney, Mr. OAR
rim, but he said he could not do much for
me. / spent Thursday and Friday trying
to see Emery, and finally on Saturday l got
his partner, Mr.. Dalgleish, to make an APP
pointment for me to see him on Saturday
evening at U ClOCk
Il turned up punctually, and when Emery
arrived Mr.. Dalgleish left us tog zther.
talked to Emery and he asked me what I
was going to do. l said L didn't know
what to do. He then said he would marry
my daughter, but was afraid that | might
make her unhappy IL ! forced her to marry
some one, and then, somehow / lost my
self-control and went for him.
II thrashed him within an inch of his life.
He shrieked for mercy, offering me money,
but still / kept on beating him; the furni-
ture was smashed, the stove overturned,
but must have gone temporarily mad. He
yelled Murder 'Police!' and imp.ored me
to stop. but still / kept on until l was ex-
hausted, and then I unlocked the door of
the Office and pushed my way through the
crowd outside and walked home That is
all 1 can remember"
Mr.. Emery after the fracas was taken by
Mr.. Dalgleish to the Flushing Hospital
where DR.. Haines dressed his wounds and
he then let with his partner.
Gone, Never to Return.
II do not wish to discuss this matter"
said Mr.. Dalgleish yesterday, but / may
tell you that Mr.. Emery and I have come
to the conclusion that in consequence OF
this affair, his business career In this town
is ended. may say that Mr.. Emery and
discussed the ACCESSIBILITY of bis making
a statement, but as ne does not ever intend
to return to Flushing. l advised him to be
silent. Consequently the matter must rest
as Ii H."