The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-02
MISS WELLER
 ATTACKED ON LONESOME ROAD
Girl of P Gives Fight to Lusty Assailant and Escapes to Fall Faintinu on Begelspeiker Threshold
Services of Police Not Yet In- vOked For Apprehension of Brute Who Escaped Search of NeighbOrS Made In Darkness

Waylaid by an unknown man, on a
 returning home from church last Sun;
 day evening, Miss Esther Weller, ar employe of the Atlas Shear Co.,, gave her assailant a fight and escaped from his grasp. The fellow had been hid den in a clump of bushes just north of the Hydraulic Co.'s pumping station in North Bridgeport. He pursued Miss Weller for some distance after she escaped from him. With tIie sound of the fellows profanity still ringing in her ears she ran to the home of Fred c. Begelspeiker. |225 Trumbull Road, where she opened the door and frightened the members of the household by falling in a dead faint just within the threshold.
 After she had been resuscitated Miss Weller told of her experience MT. Begelspeiker and several neighbors or ganized a search but without result. The highway was unlighted and the brute had disappeared in the dark ness.
 After Miss Weller recovered her strength, the Begelspeiker household and some of the neighbors accompan- jed her home.
 Miss Weller is the daughter of John P. Weller, who lives in the only house on what is known as the Trumbull Road. just over the city line. and over looking the Pequonnock river, almost a straight line to the westward from the home of the, Dibbles where Mrs. Sarah Dibble, a nOnogenarian, was murdered in June, 1909.
 Miss Weller is p years of age, and a strong young women who has been given much credit for her courage in walking home nights along lonesome country road to her home. about mile and a quarter north of the town dine. Since last Sunday the young woman refuses to walk from the plant of the Atlas Shear Go. to her home unless ac- companied by her father. who now meets her
 The young woman's mother was seen by a Farmer reporter this morning. Sine said: "I am very thankful that my daughter escaped from the clutches of her aSSailant.
 Miss Weller attended the afternoon service at the Church of the Nativity last Sunday and after visiting at the home of a friend had started for home shortly before.7 o'clock. It was about ' o'clock when she passed the pump ing station. About half way between the pumping station and Staedlers Park a man stepped from the side of the road and took her by the arm. She broke away and hurried along badly frightened.
 "Wait minute.'' said the man who hurried after her and seized her again. Then Miss Weller struck him in the face as hard as she could and break ing away ran for her life. She could her as she ran about 200 yards. but she did not remember much more until revived in the Begelspeiker house.
 The matter was not reported to the police.
 A short distance from the scene of the assault is an abandoned stone quarry Where there is a shanty. The windows are broken out and the build ing has the appearance of being aban- doned, but in rear apartment there are a number of hunks where tramps sleep every night Ten men were seen coming from the shanty this morning by one of the residents of the section who did not care to give his name for publication for fear that the gang would make trouble for him.
 One man entered the shanty a few days ago in the daytime when the hobo camp boss was away. He said that the occupants undoubtedly pre- pare their own meals. as evidenced by a large number of empty boxes which formerly contained cereals. and tins of meats and vegetables. The hunks. spread with newspaper and bagging duu OIu CdIpet, Idu UeSu uSSu o1S beds.
 All of the residents of the section believe that Miss Weller was held up by one of the gang occupying the 
 One resident said: I've are just out side the Second tax district and are not entitled to police protection. We have not notified the police lately of the gang because the last time we did so the police came up, looked over then gang and said there was no one in the crowd they wanted. They sized up the gang as lot of unfortunates and found no one they considered criminal. These fellows may be all right, but it is not pleasant to have them as neighbOrs. One of my neigh bors. whose name I will not mention. had a fight with one of the gang last week after finding him prowling in his back yard.
 we don't want these feellows to know who it is that makes a complaint against them, as we might find our houses afire some night This crowd may not be composed of criminals. but they are certainly a hard looking lot" DR. WARNER UNDERGOES