The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1907-08-01

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Accused of attacking a seventeen,
year-oid Australian girl in an eleva
tor in New York. Benjamin vii.
liams, a young West Indian negro
was arrested at 229 East Seventy.
fifth street by Detectives McAyoy
and Stewart and locked up at police
headquarters.
The victim is Sadie Schaffer, who
lives with her sister Minnie in g
small apartment at 325 East Houston
street. She has been in this country
only nine months. She had started
out to seek employment.
Entering an elevator, she told the
negro attendant to stop at the fourth
floor. 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. WiGhout word, the glr]
declares, he seized her in his arms,
and jamming his fist into her face to
stifle her cries, threw her to the floor.
Fortunately before she tainted, the
g7rl 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 fioor
and restoratives were administered.
1t 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 too
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,
ssHe 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 | did
not keep quiet. thought he really
meant to kill me, and begged for
mercy. He did not pay any attention
to what / said and threw me on the
floor. Then managed to scream
once or twice. Iheard a lot of bells
ringing and that's the last thing |
remember until I woke up with
somebody standing over me and
pouring something into my mouth. :"
''Have they caught him?" was the
first question OF the girls sister.
cts awful over here in your Amer
lea. Every day you read of girls
who have been assaulted, and almost
never Of the capture Of the brutes
who attack them. In my country
such a thing might happen once in a
hundred years, perhaps, but they
would hang him, and over here the
most you do to such man is to send
him to prison for a few years.
"If I had him I'd pour kerosene
over him until he was thoroughly
soaked and then set him on fire, or
I'd do something that would keep
him suffering for a year, and then
kill him, Oh, if you could only know
how | feel about it. Ny little sister
doesn't realize how awful it is.
The police caught the negro after
an all-day search. He is a heavily
built mulato who shows plainly that
much of his blood is white.