Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-06
TELLS OF ASSAULT
Booker 7. Washington Ap-
pears in New York Court.
WAS BADLY beaten UP
Was Looking at Door Plates When
Attacked, He Declares.
DEFENDANT GIVES HIS SIDE
Says He Believed Colored Educator
a Thief Who Had In
suited His Wife.
WAS BADLY BEATEN UP
DEFENDANT GIVES HIS SIDE

suited His Wife.
NEW YORK, November 6-Booker T.
Washington appeared in court here to-
day as the principal witness against
Henry A. Ulrich, the white man who gave
Washington a beating one night last
March, when he found him in the vesti-
bule of an apartment house. where u
rich roomed on West 63d street A
policeman who came upon the combat
ants, placed DR. Washington under at
rest on Ulrich's complaint; but when
they reached the station house and the
colored man told his story positions were
reversed. Ulrich was arrested on a
charge Of assault, and his trial, after
many delays, was called today.
Counsel Tuskegee Contributor.
The defendant brought as his counsel
James I. Moore, who was one of the
first contributors to a fund for the de-
velopment Of Tuskegee Institute. of
which DIR. Washington is the head.
Ulrich says that Moore volunteered his
services. A statement issued by DR..
Washington at the time of the alleged
ants directory in the vestibule of the
apartment house in an effort to locate
negro who was one of the officers of
Tuskegee.
The nature of Ulrich's defense was fore
Swallowed by his previous assertions that
he found DIR. Washington peeping through
the keyhole of a door on the ground floor
and that a woman with whom he Ulrich)
roomed told him she had been annoyed
| by the colored man while passing through
hn 1rit No H{v,~v fc,,
| out of the vestibule, Ulrich. it is alleged.
chased him for two blocks, knocked him
down and was beating him when the po-
nceman interfered.
Detective Tells Story.
NEW YORK. November 6.-Detective
Hagan. the first witness. testified that
he saw Ulrich running after DR.. Wash
ington and that when he came up to them
he found DR.. Washington on his hands
and knees.
DIR. Washington was bleeding on
| the head" said Detective Hagan. III
| rich said: This man Is a thief.
found him with his hand on the door
knob and his eye at the keyhole.' On
the way to the station house Ulrich
remarked that 1T was q good thing
had come up, for If l hadn't he
| would have knocked the negro's
| brains out. There was another man
with US and he satd: 1 think he was
there after those two young girls.
Ulrich then said that he thought he
might change the charge of attempted
| burglary to something else. but 1 told
him 1 didn't think he had much Of a
case anyway
The detective said that Ulrich told him
his wife had met the colored man while
| taking dog out for an airing. 1t was
| then that Ulrich went out with a woman,
| according to Ulrichs remark to the de-
| tective.
James Grove, the bankers clerk, cor
| roborated the detectives stcry.
In the station said Patrolman Ben
jamin s. Tierney, who arrested Washing
| ton, Zurich charged Washington with
attempted burglary and with insulting his
wife" On cross examination Mr.. Moore
! asked: did Washington explain who he
| was on the way to the station house?"
No. said Tierney.
Bleeding"
What was his condition as to So
briety?"
| ut was normal.
DR.. Washington's Account.
| Booker T. Washington then told his
story. He said 1t was about a quarter
past . when he was In Ulrich's home
| 1.-The defendant ran into the hallway
and assaulted me-" he said. He grab
bed me by the throat and choked me
and hit me with his fists. l tried to de-
fend myself. but he was getting the bet
| ter Of me and I opened the door and
stepped into the street. There were two
men on the street, and Ulrich asked one
| Of them for a stick he carried. He hit
me a dozen times, should say, with the
| stick.
| II said to him, Don't beat me this
| way. II I'm breaking the law call an
officer, and have him arrest me il I'm
doing anything wrong When 1 reached
Central Park west / was so weak that
/ I fell.
"What were you doing there?" asked
Justice Zeller. Il was looking at the door
plates" said the educator.
| You went to that house two or three
ltimes," asked Mr.. Moore on cross-exami-
nation.
Il went first at about about SAB" the
witness said II was looking for friend"
| white or colored.
The assistant district attorney objected,
| but was Overruled.
They were white" replied DR.. Wash
ington.