Evening star., 1909-05-08
HARpOONS SIX As SHE STROllS
WoMAj JABS HAT PINS INTO
BYsTANDERs IN HER WAY.
Victims Fall in Line-No Arrest TILL
She Attacks One Of Her
Own Sex

NEW YORK. May s-Mary Maloney.
who said she was forty, thrust hat pins
into six persons within an hour on upper
Broadway last night. and when she was
arrested her victims formed in line to
follow her to the West Tooth street police
station.
She didn't know why she had done 1t.
Neither did the five men and one woman
who had been stabbed. They were all
strangers to her and she seemed sober.
Mary began her hat pin tournament at
Broadway and 9sth street, where she
happened to see Alfred Abraham standing
on the corner. There was no word OF
warning, not even a look on the part OF
the woman. but as she passed Abraham
she gave him a jab In the right arm.
"Ouch," muttered the victim. Then
as he rubbed his smarting arm he asked
her what she meant by 1t.
"Oh, l only did that to show You how
much I loved YOU she replied as she
went on up Broadway, looking back and
smiling pleasantly at Abraham. He fol-
lowed at safe distance.
Right and Left Jabs.
At 1OOth street Moses Goddard OF 1oS
West 1COth street was talking with his
friend Herman Pallister of the same ad-
dress. The woman brushed between
them. with hat pin in each hand, and as
she passed through jabbed right and left,
pricking each man on the arm.
Before they had recovered from their
astonishment Abraham Joined them and
told OF his experience Then the three
followed 20 see what would happen next
One block further up Broadway William
]. Smith of 161 West 103d street was on
the corner waiting for a car. So unex-
pected and so quick was the attack on
him that the three first victims had no
time TO cry out a warning.
1t looked to them as If the woman was
going to ignore Smith. But as she got
| opposite him she thrust out her arm like
a iencer making long lunge and caught
her fourth victim half way across the
sidewalk.
He forgot his car and Joined the bleed
ing procession, which by this time had
been increased by a hundred or more per-
sons who were unstabbed but curious.
At 102d street George Harris of 93 West
1O3d street was saying how. do you do to
his friend, Miss Mary Hans of "a West
1Olst street, when Mary Maloney reached
them.
She paid no attention to Miss Hans, but
thrust her hatpin into Harris arm just
as the men trailing behind called out TO
him to look out for her. The warning
was too late. SO Harris was added to the
procession with Miss Hans.
Woman Last Victim.
The sixth and last victim of the even
ing was Mrs. Margaret Ware of Rye.
n. Y. She had been calling on friends
in the enighborhood and was about to
enter the subway at 103d street station
when the woman with the hatpins caught
her at the head OF the stairs and jabbed
one Of her weapons through her left fore
arm.
ed to think that there should be an ar
rest.
Mrs. Wares scream of fright and pain
was heard by Patrolman Thompson on
the next block, and he ran TO the SUBJ
way stairs. The five wounded men and
the rest of the crowd surrounded the as
sailant and kept her penned in till the
patrolman got there, and then she was
taken TO the West Tooth street station.
with Mrs. Ware, Abraham. Goddard, Pal
lister. Smith and Harris following in
her wake.
Each Of them made charge Of as
sault.
Gave False Address.
The woman. who was neatly dressed
In black and looked respectable, said
that she lived at 237 West Oath street,
which proved to be a vacant lot. She also
told Lieut.. Leary that she had lot OF An
fiuential friends and that the police would
not be able to do more than keep her
over night.
She sent messenger for Charles r.
Pegrem of 81 Riverside Drive but he
was neither at home nor at the West Side
Republican Club, where he usually spends
his evenings.
Mr.. Pelgram had not returned home
at midnight. His sister said the woman
was not a relation of the family, and
that she knew nothing about her. and
that If her brother knew the prisoner
1t must be in professional way.
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