The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-03-04
Mrs. Stanfield Stabbed.

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Mrs. Stanfield Stabbed.
Mrs. e. S. Stanfield, 7O6 Phillip ave-
nue., Norfolk, whose testimony in the
Hadar bank robbery trial at Pierce
three weeks ago resulted in convict.
ing Harry Joyce, and sending him to
the Nebraska state penitentiary for
twenty years, was attacked by an un.
known masked man in the dark last
night
"ToId You to Keep STILL"
II told you to keep your mouth
shut" her assailant cried as he flash
ed a dark lantern into her face and
slashed at her with some blunt instru-
ment.
Mrs. Stanfield, after a desperate
struggle, was wounded in the arm and
today is Ill in bed as a result. She
tainted during the encounter and was
picked up unconscious by her husband.
Life Has Been Threatened.
Mrs. Stanfield says her life was
twice indirectly threatened before the
Hadar robbery trial, If she should tes
tify.
Mrs. Stanfield was hanging clothes
on the line at 9 o'clock last night. At
the rear of the Stanfield home is a
shed, into which opens the kitchen
door.
Masked Man Steps Out.
Mrs. Stanfeld had started into the
house through the shed when sudden
ly out of the darkness came binding
flash of light that was thrown into her
face. Then man, wearing mask,
grabbed the defenseless woman and a
desperate hand,tohand struggle en-
sued
During the encounter the masked
man slashed at her with some sort of
blunt instrument.
Il told you to keep your mouth
shut" he Kissed.
Slabs Her in the Arm.
A little later he stabbed again, this
time sending his sharp steel into her
arm. do you feel that?" he en-
claimed, with vicious glee.
But the masked assailant did not
have it all his own way. Mrs. Stan
field, fighting madly, succeeded in bit
ing the unknown brute's hand, in
scratching his face and in tearing out
a portion of his coat pocket. This she
still has.
| Wounded, She Faints.
| Mrs. Stanfield tainted after having
been stabbed in the arm. At $3.50 her
husband, who had been working at
the Northwestern uptown depot where
he is employed, returned home and
found the unconscious form of his
wife in the dark shed. He immediate
ly summoned Dr. Holden, who dress
ed the wound.
When Mrs. Stanfield regained con
seriousness, she said, opening her eyes
They've got me now"
She Sent Joyce to Pen.
Mrs. Stanfield's testimony in the
Joyce trial, together with that of hel
little daughter who corroborated hel
story, succeeded in sending Harry
Joyce to the state prison for twenty
years. His pal in the Hadar bank rob
berry, James Morrison, had been sen
fenced a couple of months before tc
thirty years for the same crime.
AS Nurse, Dressed His Burn.
1t was Mrs. Stanfield, a nurse, t.
whose home Joyce and Morrison came
from Hadar few hours after the banl
was blown. Joyce was suffering from
a badly burned arm, gained through
}too close contact with the nitro-glycer
inc, it was supposed. He and Morri
son went to the Stanfield home at
o'clock in the morning with the mys
terious wound. Joyce insisted it was
from a barb wire cut, but Mrs. Stan
field declared at the time that it wal
from burn, and she dressed it for ;
burn.
1t was this story told to the jury il
the Pierce county district court, anC
substantiated by her little daughter
Evelyn, who pointed her finger across
the table at Joyce as the man who haC
come to have his hand dressed, tina
convicted the second of the two banl
robbers.
Mrs. Stanfield says her life wa
threatened before the trial and las
night she was stabbed.
, Morrison and Joyce came from
!, Sioux City. A motley mob of crook
of all sorts were called to Pierce t
testify for them in the two cases.
Joyce was sentenced February II
} Morrison was sentenced November &c
Judge A. A. Welch of Wayne preside,
in both cases. Both men are now be
hind the bars at Lincoln. Morrison
had been a former convict. Bot
were hard lockers.
The police are working on the case
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