The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-07-31
A BOLD FIEND.
Attacks a Young GirIin New York
City
While Riding in an Eievator-Got
Away But Was Caught aid Locked

Accused Of attacking a seventeen
year-old Australian girl in an eleva-
tor in New York. Benjamin Will
liams, a young West Indian negro,
was arrested at 229 East Seventy
fifth street by Detectives McAvoy
and Stewart and locked up at police
headquarters.
The victim is Sadie Schafer, VINO
lives with her sister Minnie IN
small apartment at 323 East houston
street. She has been IN this country
onlv nine months. She had started
out to seek employment.
Entering an elevator, she told the
NEGRO attendant to stop at the fourth
/ aoor. She was the only passenger.
! Instead of stopping at the fourth
floor, she says, the negro ran the ele-
vator to the eighth floor, which is
vacant. Without a word, the girl
declares, he seized her in his arms,
and jamming his fist into her face to
stife her cries, threw her to the floor.
Fortunately before she tainted, the
girl screamed several times.
Hearing the girls screams, men
from all the floors of the building
rushed to the elevator, but their sig
nails met with no response. Running
the elevator from the top to the bot
tom floor at full speed, the negro
threw the door open and dashed past
half a dozen men who did not know
what had happened.
The girl was found on the floor Of
the elevator unconscious. Her face
and neck were bruised as though an
attempt had been made to strangle
her. She was taken to an upper floor
and restoratives were administered
It was more than an hour before she
recovered consciousness.
Two policeman hurried over from
the West Twentieth street station in
answer to the alarm, but were toe
late to catch the negro. When the
girl recovered somewhat, she was
taken home and left in the care OF
her sister. her only relative, in the
country. With tears streaming down
her cheeks, she described her eXper.
ience,
''He did not say a word to me, but
just threw out his arms and grabbed
me-" she said. 81 tried to scream
but he struck me hard over the mouth
and told me he would kill me if die
not keep quiet. | thought he really
meant to Kill me, and begged fo,
mercy. He did not pay any attention
to what | said and threw me on the
floor. Then l managed to scream
once or twice. ! heard a lot of bells
ringing and that's the last thing
remember until | woke up with
somebody standing over me anc
pouring something into my mouth. ,
Have they caught him?' was the
first question of the girls sister
'It's awful over mere in your Amer
lea. Every day you read OF girl:
who have been assaulted, and almost
never of the capture of the brute;
who attack them. In my country
such a thing might happen once in {
hundred years, perhaps, but they
would hang him, and over here the
, most you do to such a man is to senc
him to prison for few years.
''If | had him I'd pour kerosene
over him until he was thoroughly
soaked and then set him on fire, o,
I'd do something that would keeI
him suffering for q year, and the1
kill him, Oh, if you could only know
how | feel about it. My little sister
| doesn't realize how awful it is. y
| The police caugt lie negro after
an all-day search. He is a heavily
built mulato who shows plainly thar
much Of his blood is white.