The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-10-26
WOMAN SOUGHT
THE TELEPHONE.
! "o"e
Hello Girl Heard Cry of Muir
der and Started the
Police

Kansas City, Oct. 26.-When little
Eelectric light on the switchboard IN
the Missouri and Kansas Telephone
cOmpany's west" office at. Sixth
street and Armstrong avenue, flashed
red yesterday afternoon, Miss Hazel
OrendOrff, one of the telephone opera
tors answered
"Number?" she said in the ordinary
tone.
| Instead Of subscriber asking for a
connection, she heard woman s
voice cry this one word over the wire (:
"Murder!"
| Miss Orendorff's quick ears caught
on the wire sounds of scuffle, then
she heard the telephone receiver
strike something. No one spoke over
the wire after that. The girl rang
! the number from which the myster-
fous call had come, but no one ans
wered. Then she reported the call to
the information clerk in the telephone
office, Julia Dempsey, who found the
telephone was at 2555 Stewart avenue,
outside the city limits of Kansas City.
Kas., in the home of C. A. Nickle, a
construction foreman. who works for
the Missouri and Kansas Telephone
company. Then Miss Dempsey called
police headquarters.
There's woman murdered or hurt
at 2555 Stewart avenue" she told Ira
Bonwell, sargeant. who answered.
Attacked Her While She Slept.
Sergeant Bonwell and w. w. Cook.
chief of police, arriving at the Nickel
home after a fast drive, found that
Mrs. Nickel had been choked, beaten
and robbed by two men who had en-
tered her home while sho lay on a
couch asleep with her 4-year-old
baby at her side.
The officers learned that Mrs. ]. S.
Faulk. neighbor, had called early
son. Paul. After they had gone. Mrs.
Nickel lay down on the couch beside
her baby. She was awakened about
3 o'clock by someone approaching the
couch and placing a hand on her
mouth. Her first thought was that
Paul Faulk had come back to play
with the baby.
Paul. go away" she said. "The
baby is asleep"
Then the Men Seized Her.
1--WE don't care anything about the
baby" gruff voice responded. I'VE
want money" y
Mrs. Nickel, now thoroughly awake,
attempted to spring from the couch.
She saw two men. One of them had
revolver. Both men seized her.
They demanded to know where money
was hidden in the house. Mrs. Nickel
told them she had no money
1--WE know BETTER" one said. eff
she don't tell. kill her."
: No." the other said. "She has
baby
Mrs. Nickel was struggling in the
grasp of the men. They told her they
would pull her head off If she did not
cease struggling. To emphasize this
threat one of the men seized Mrs.
Nickle around the head and pulled at
her head.
While the Girl Listened.
Mrs. Nickle succeeded in breaking
away from the men and ran into the
front room where there is a telephone.
She took off the receiver and cried
Murder" into the telephone. Then
one of the men knocked the telephone
from her hand. Ho held her while tho
other searched the house.
The searchers overlooked no place
where money might have been hid
den. Every drawer in & bureau wac
pulled out and the contents dumped
upon the floor Sewing machine
drawers were searched. The mattress
and bed clothing were pulled from the
bed. Every little china ornament in
the dining room was examined and
boxes which contained trinkets and
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