The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-13
HIT WITH
AK, WOMAN
MAY DIE
Arrests Are Made After Muir
derOus Mulberry Street
Assault.
SHE AND HUSBAND ACCUSE
Bridget Sullivan, the Victim,
Tells Story of Attack and
Becomes Unconscious-.Man
and Daughter Are
Locked Up.


pated in by three or four families in
a big tenement house at the corner of
Canal and Mulberry streets, Mrs. Brid-
get Sullivan is lying in a critical con-
dition in st. James's Hospital, having
been struck in the forehead with an
ak at noon today. Robert Carroll and
his daughter, Mrs. Helen Dollers, are
locked up in the First Precinct station,
and are charged by Mrs. Sullivan and
her husband, Thomas Sullivan. with
having inflicted the wounds which may
result in Mrs. Sullivan's death.
CarrolPs wife, who was at first
charged with striking the Sullivan
woman with the ak; Mrs. Lizzie Dee
gan, janitress at the house, and George
Carroll, son of Robert Carroll are
locked in the First Precinct Station as
witnesses.
In st. James's Hospital this after
noon Mrs. Sullivan identified Carroll
as the man who had struck her, she
claimed, on the back of the head with
a bowl. She then told Acting Captain
Caffrey that Helen boilers, a daughter
of Carroll, struck her in the forehead
with the AK, On the strength of this
statement Acting Captain Caffrey de-
cided to hold the Doller woman, who
is but IS years of age, as a party to
the assault, and both she and her
father were charged with committing
an atrocious assault with intent to
kill. The others were held as wit
nesses.
On account of the weakened condi-
ton of Mrs. Sullivan the police did not
question her closely. Mrs. Sullivan has
three scalp wounds. Two of them are
on the top of the head the other is at
the base of the brain. The latter in
jury she claimed was inflicted when
Carroll hit her with a bowl.
Stories differ as to how the fight
started and in what manner the Sulli-
van woman was assaulted. The police
learned that the Sullivan woman was
the target for missiles in the shape of
bowls, plates and bricks. and the wind
up came when she was struck in the
head with an ak, which she ad grabbed
to defend herself.
The Sullivans live on the upper floor
of the tenement. In order to get there
Mrs. Sullivan had to pass the door
leading into the home of the CAROLS.
on the floor below.
When Mrs. Sullivan went past this
door about noon today the argument
house minding his children. Mrs. Car
rolls door was open when Mrs. Sui
livan went past. and they both got
into an argument, and Mrs. Sullivan
went upstairs to her own rooms. Mrs.
Lizzie Deegan, the janitress of the
building, joined in the melee. Mrs.
Carroll and Mrs. boilers went UP to
Mrs Sullivan's rooms. There the fight
was resumed. Carroll Joined in the at
tack Mrs Sullivan ran for an ak to
defend herself when she saw that she
was in danger. Someone hit her with
a plate. Then a brick followed, and as
a finale a bowl was hurled at Mrs.
Sullivan. Then her husband Joined in
the attack. Carroll took hand in it,
and finally Mrs. Sullivan was struck
down with the ak.
George Carroll says that Sullivan hit
his wife with the ak in trying to get
the weapon from her. Mrs. Sullivan
was knocked to the floor. Some one
notified Policeman Knodler, of the
First Precinct station, and he went to
the house and found the place in great
disorder. Carroll had run away. Sui
Ivan told him that Carroll had struck
his wife with an ak. The policeman
took all of the parties to the police
station.
Knodler telephoned TO the First Precinct
Station and the ambulance was sent to the
house with Policeman Clarke. Clarke had
talk with the woman who was conscious
when he got there. She accused Carroll
of having struck her with the axe. She
then became unconscious.
Later word was received by Acting Cap
tain Caffrey that more policemen were
wanted on the scene. He sent Policeman
Cort there and then went down himself.
talxing Plainclothes Policemen Troy and
King They made a hurried examination
of the place and concluded TO lock UP
Sullivan Mrs Carroll George Carroll Mrs
Lizzie Deegan and Mrs. Helen Dollers A
search was made for Carroll, but he could
not be found Later Troy caught the man
in Canal street and he, too, was taken to
the First Precinct Station by Troy and
Knodler.
The ak, bowl and plate and brick
thrown during the fight were also taken
to the station house There is very little
blood on the ak, which is an old one, with
a short handle.
Carroll stoutly denied striking the
woman with the ak. He said that he
took no part in the affair. His son George,
IL years old, backs him up in this state
ment. Several people in the hallway after
the assault said that they heard Mrs
Sullivan say that a woman had struck
her. The police are inclined to the opln-
ion that Carroll struck the woman. Act
ing Captain Caffrey. Policemen Troy and
King went to St. James's Hospital with
Carroll to have the Sullivan woman iden-
Carroll is a machinist, but has not been
working OF late. He was under the infiu-
Of the parties had been drinking more or