Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23
AWAKES To FIND
MANW|THDAGGER
BENDING OvERHER
Story Told by Girl Mother of One
of Bogus QuadrupIetS Causes
Mexican'S Arrest
CATCH MAN WHO FLEES HOUSE
Mysterious Woman Alleged to
Have Offered Bribe, Figures
in Strange Case
CATCH MAN WHO FLEES HOUSE

~ ADIE ENGLEMAN, the 16-year-old
- mother of one of the bogus Wilson
~ quadruplets, and who formerly
was employed as a chorus girl in q
San Diego theater, is again in the spot
light of publicity following what she
declares to have been an attempt upon
her life made early Sunday morning,
supposedly by Guanoldo Avisa, a Mex
lean, who is now under arrest at the
central police station, pending an otfi-
cial investigation into the girls story.
Miss Engleman lives with her mother
and stepfather at 432 lafayette street.
She told the police yesterday that she
had been suddenly awakened from q
sound sleep to find bending over her
bed a young Mexican, dagger in hand.
The girl screamed for help and at the
same time leaped from the bed, crouch
ing in a corner where the moonlight
did not penetrate and where she hoped
to escape observation.
Her cry aroused her stepfather. J.
Tabak, and so startled the intruder
that he rushed from the room. Tabak
followed and grappled with the man
in the kitchen as he made for the rear
door. He struck the Mexican on the
head with a cane and then followed
him from the house. Outside, some
little distance away, Tabak found Pa
trolman Greeley, who Joined him in the
blocks from the house and Greeley
placed the man under arrest. Later in
the morning the youth was identified
positively both by Mis- Engleman and
by Tabak.
The girl and her parents profess to
believe that the threatened attack upon
her may have some connection with a
case pending in the superior court
against Mrs. Katherine Smith, mid
wife, who, it is charged, sold the
Engleman baby to Mrs. w. w. Wilson,
who claimed it as Ecr own, and who
for a time succeeded in palming 1t off
upon the public as one of the famous
bankruptcies. Following Mrs. Wilson'S
exposure came the information that
one of the babies had been born to the
chorus girl in Mrs. Smiths SANTA
rum" on Sunset boulevard. Miss
Engleman denied that she had author
ized the midwife to dispose of the child
and the court proceedings followed.
This case comes up for trial next
month
CLAIMS ATTEMPT To BRIBE
Friday afternoon, Mrs. Tabak says,
an attempt was made to bribe her into
persuading her dau Inter to drop the
case against Mrs. Smith. A hand
somely gowned young woman of the
Spanish type, she says, called at the
house, having alighted from big tour
ing car a few doors away. Mrs. Tabak
says she refused fatty entertain any
proposition looking toward q settle
ment of the case outside of court, and
asserts that the woman left the house
angrily. nothing further having been
seen of her.
Mrs Tabak is said to be suffering
greatly from the shock of the attempt
on her daughters life. The girls
father called at police headquarters
yesterday and asked for protection un-
til he could remove his family. Lieu
tenant Herman Kriege, who was in
charge, told him, he says, that the de-
partment could not spare a policeman
to guard the Tabak home. Today the
family will move to another part Of
the city in the hope that 1t may avoid
those who are alleged to be seeking
Miss Englemans life. The chorus
girls baby has been In the care of the
children's hospital recently. 1t has
been i'll for some time and telephone
message from the hospital was re-
ceived by its young mother yesterday
saving that the child was not expected
to live twenty-four hours and asking
If the Tabak family would pay funeral
expenses.
Avisa refused yesterday to make a
statement. He said that he did not
"sabe English" AS no one could be
found about the police station Sunday
who could speak Spanish the sweat
ing" of the prisoner was deferred until
TODAY, when Captain Flammer who
was off duty yesterday, will question
him