The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-02-19
GIRL $ STORY Of
GANGS ATTACK IS
HER SECOND YARN
"GladyS Curtis" Who Tells of
Cellar Experience, Was
"Beryl Hoyt Mills"
FOUND ON BOWERY,
Handsome Stranger Figures in
Both Terribly Distressing
Incidents.
FOUND ON BOWERY.

Gladys Curtis, the slight, brown-eyed
English girl who told the police of be-
Ing dragged into cellar and brutally
attacked by eight men at No l2o Wash
ington street yesterday afternoon, was
identified and confessed to-day that she
Is the Berry, Hoyt Mills who was
found at Fourth street and Bowery
three weeks ago suffering from an over
dose OF choral.
Sergt. Schientield, OF the Church street
police station was told a woman was
dead IN the cellar. He found the girl
groaning. her face swollen but not
bruised, and her clothes bedragsled and
+, dirty. At once she told of being APP
. preached by "well-dressed young
man" who insisted on speaking TO her.
without stopping to think" she ac-
companied the handsome stranger until
he came to stairway. Then she was
. tumbed into the hole and gagged and
s attacked BY the fellow and two other
men. Five more assailants were added
later, The next thing she remembered
{ was an ambulance,
Last Time an Express Maqnate.
/. Miss Curtis. Mills's tale OF the outrage
agreed fairly we'll in essentials with the
one she told In Bellevue Hospital OF
I. previous attack She pas a iippodrome
chorus girl and lived at No. 49, West
I Twenty second street then, as now both
statements were false. The girl re-
ceired much sympathy then through her
dramatic description OF being ap.
preached by distinguished looking man,
who said lie owned an express company
and mad seen her CIsh!ng her weekly
allowance from England in his Office.
z Then, as now, she didn't stop to think,
because he seemed so refined and lone.
some Size "aIlowed' herself to ac-
company him thea to PARK Pos cafe.
where she also permitted herself to have
Just one insignificant glass OF vine And,
gracious Its effects were felt AT ono.
She was led away, became unconscious
IN DARK room, was attacked ard then
turned into the street. This time She
told OF experiences in cellar In thar
respect the stories differ.
She Accused Four Men,
y Three young men one OF them How.
ard Graham, son OF Harry Graham.
who wrote TWO Little Girls In R,ue p,
We're arrested for running away" "a
the imp figure Of Miss Curtis-aIills was
carried from the cellar, so tho polio.
a'lege. The victim of the band nj.
TACK lost no time in positively Iientl.
Tying the trio as among her assallants
She also identified one Of the reserves
OF the church street station, and dared
Z nm TO look her straight In the face"
Luckily for the reserve. he had been
under the captains eye all afternoon.
She was taken to Centre Street Court
later as material witness against
Robert Kelly, nineteen years old OF
Z NO. 10 Washington street; Arnold
Burke, seventeen years old. of No, 100
Greenwich street. and young Graham.
In the Hudson Street Hospital, be-
Aoie sHc WIS TeltaStu, she denied being
a romancer, but admitted that she had
been drugged and attacked recently,
and gave the name Beryl Hoyt She is
frail. piteous looking woman of girl
ish hgure aud expression, She weighs
hardly ninety pounds. She claims TO
have a husband, but to be separated
from him. She has been seen frequently
! In the lower west side, the police say.
Miss Curtis-Milis failed TO Identify any
3 OF the three prisoners when they were
arraigned before Magistrate House,
They were all discharged She insist I'd
that her name is Gladys Curtis, and ad-
3 mitted that she Is also known as Beryl
Hoyt.
To the tale OF the attack she added In
court the detail OF robbery. The "haNd-
some" man, she maintained, s.atched
her pocketboOk and all her screams
failed to bring aid. She said she came
from New jersey In t!.e morning and
had nothing 20 drink. Then she changed
her address at No. ibn Vest Twenty
second street.
A The robbery feature which she added
makes the two yarns of her experience
In New Yorks streets practically !den-
teal