The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-08-28
BOLD THIEVES
ATTACK WOMAN ON sTEW YORK
STREET
And When She Showed Fight They
Threw Her in Front of Car Which
Mashed Her.

12:15 a. m. Tuesday, in New York
became so infuriated when she
screamed and tried to fight that they
dragged her from the, sidewalk and
hurled her in the path of trolley
car. AS the car crushed the life out
of her, they escaped.
The woman, who appeared to be
about 35 years old, was seen walk.
ing fast through Ninety-irst street
apparently coming from the subway
station at Ninety-first street and
Broadway. In her right hand she
carried reticule and she seemed to
be hurrying home.
She turned south at Amsterdam
avenue and was walking past a va
cant lot enclosed by fence ten feet
high. AS she reache the corner the
men sprang out at her. One seized
her handbag and tried = to wrest il
from her grasp, while his companion
beat her in the face.
hevWomanNfought the men off and
screamed until the man behind be-
gan choking her Still she fought
with her free hand, holding the bag
with the other.
The woman was seen struggling
and heard screaming by some men
at Eighty-ninth street At first they
believed the men and woman were
engaged in horse-play. An Amster-
dam avenue car came whizzing down
the grade between Ninetieth and
Ninety-second streets in charge of
Motorman Thomas King, and John
Meehan. King saw the struggle o
the sidewalk and saw the men drag
the woman over the curbing: just
as his car got almost opposite them,
one of the men seized the woman by
the shoulders while the second man,
having forced the handbag from her,
seized her wrist and pulled her for
ward.
AS the car came upon the trio, the
two men lifted the woman from the
ground and hurled her across the
tracks. The fender passed over the
woman and she was caught under the
erarA The car coulGsnot be stopped,
such was it's momentum, until it had
reached Eighty-ninth street. The
woman was then fast under the
wheels
Conductor Meehan and several
passengers had witnessed the mur-
der. They sprang from the car and
when the two men began to run east
through Ninetieth street. the conduc-
tor and the passengers followed. One
of the men was seen to enter the
rear door of a saloon at the southeast
corner. When Meehan tried to get
into the place the door was locked.
The second man continued to run
and was seen to enter the stable of
Phillip Wagner and Sons. Several
men ran into the stable and then
waited the arrival of the police.
When the woman was attacked
Police Stanton, Ryan, Snyder and
Tooney heard her screams, and were
running toward the scene when the
car crushed out her life. They fol
lowed the conductor and passengers
and at the rear entrance of the sa-
loon they beat in the door.
At the entrance they found the
woman's reticule. It contained
$3.50 and a handkerchief, on which
was the initial H The handker
chief was not cheap, and the initial
was hand-embroidered. No one was
found in the saloon, and when the
police reserves came they surrouded
the block.
On entering The stable the police
found the passengers talking with
man who said he was James Dunn
90 years old.
A policeman seized Dunn and de-
manded that he explain his presnece
In the stable.
I'm employed here" said Dunn
II have not left the. stable tonight
and have not seen stranger enter
] know absolutely nothing about this
only wish | did.
The police took Dunn to the sta
ton house and locked him up on
suspicion. A search of every house
on the block was then made, Du'
no suspicious person found.
All this took place while the
body of the woman was pinned
under the car while men strain
ed to lift it from the trucks
A wreckig car was called and
the body was released after hall
an hour. The police then arrested
Motorman King, who had collapsed
and made a technical c..arse OF noml'
eide against him. Conductor nee
han was held as witness.
There was absolutely nothlns
about the woman by which she coulo
he identified except the letter IN
on her handkerchief Her ciolhes
were clean and we'll made. and the
SUPPRESSION was made that she was
trained nurse