Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-19
WOMAN SANDBAGGED
Beaten, Bound and Robbed in
Own ParI0r.
THIEF ASKED FOR LOGGER
Gained Entrance, Committed Crime
and Left, Locking Door.
HUSBAND CLIMBS AIR SHAFT
Victim May Die-Roomer, Held on
Suspicion, Said by Police to Be
Joliet Jail Bird.
THIEF ASKED FOR LOGGER
HUSBAND CLIMBS AIR SHAFT

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. September 19.-All the de-
tectIves attached to the Bronx bureau are
looking for a man who entered the apart
ment of Mrs. Estelle Hughes. 499 East 162d
street, last night and, after sandbagging
her. tied her to q chair and robbed the
apartment Of jewels. bric-a-brac and cash
amounting to $780, Harry Thorn, twenty
eight years Old who boards with Mrs.
Hughes and her husband. q city employe.
is detained by the police on suspicion Of
being implicated in the affair
While Mrs. Hughes was preparing the
evening meal about dusk last night she
heard q knock at the front door. On OPEN
ing 1t a strange man asked: rs there a
Mr.. Thorn boarding hereg'
Yes. but 1 don't think he is in now"
Mrs. Hughes replied.
Woman Knocked Senseless.
AS Mrs. Hughes turned to go to Thorn
room, which is in the rear OF the fiat, the
stranger stepped into the parlor and closed
the door, and, just as the woman was about
to turn, surprised by the click of the latch,
he dealt her a terrific blow with a sand
bag on the head at the base of the skull.
She fell senseless at his feet.
Without losing any time, the burglar
picked up the unconscious woman and
carried her into bedroom. Then, after
tearing a sheet into strips he placed the
still unconscious woman in a large rocking
chair and bound her to 1t. wrapping the
bar IA
he placed another piece of the sheet in her
mouth as a gag
Using a Jimmy, the thief forced open
closets and bureau drawers. He found
more than 500 in cash and jewelry and
other small articles amounting in all to
about 500. Leaving the fat by the door
which he had entered, the burglar locked 1t.
Husband Climbs Air Shaft.
No answer came to the husbands ring Of
the doorbell when he arrived home. a half
hour later. He felt sure that his wife was
at home. and without delay Set about get
ting into his house. He climbed from his
mothers room to an air shaft and thence
into the upper floor Of his home.
In the darkness of the bedroom he came
upon the limp figure of his wife. bleeding
and unconscious in a chair.
After freeing her and lifting her to the
bed Hughes summoned DR.. E. L. Corbett
Of $50 Caldwell avenue. The doctor worked
over the unconscious woman for an hour
before she showed signs Of returning life.
"She has a chance of pulling through"
was his verdict on her condition. Her skull
was fractured by ,he blow on the back Of
her head, and she bled profusely at the
many wounds made by the strips which
had held her fast"
ledger Old Offenderp
It was not until this morning that Mrs.
Hughes was able to give a description of
her assailant. The detectives, however, de-
cided to pick up Thorn. the lodger. to see il
he could tell anything that would help them
in their search. He was taken down to
headquarters and his record investigated.
The police say that he has served term in
Joliet prison and has been tried for murder
in San Francisco and acquitted He had not
been in the Hughes house for more than
twenty-four hours, he declared, when ques-
toned about his whereabouts last evening.
The attack upon Mrs. Hughes bears a
striking resemblance to the celebrated Kin
nan murder case, which startled and shock
ed the residents of the Bronx last year.
Alice Kinnan was struck down and left dy-
Ing on the porch Of her home by a mysteri-
Gus assailant and no clue was ever found
to his Identity.