The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-03-20
BOOKER WASHINGTON BEATEN
ATTACHED nv 4 MAN VINO
THOtGHT HIM "PEEPING TOM"
Albert lirict. Carpenter. Who says THAT
lie smiled NJ His wife and Was Peek.
Ing Thrsugh the keyhoIe Of an Apart.
Ment -He u Only slightly Hurt.

UR uVUOukU WV NtyuON VI MI NUuVts
ment lie Il Only slightly Hurt.
Booker 7. Washington was brought into
the West Sixty eighth street police station
last night by a policeman who had chased
him up Central Park West after scufY'e in
"a hallway at III West Sxty-third stree,
Albert Ulrich, carpenter. was arrested
on Washington's complaint charged with
assault Ulrich told the police that he
had found Washington peering through
Ia keyhole in an apartment at that ad-
dress. Washington had two or three
scalp wounds and was taken to Flower
Hospital for treatment.
At the police station Mr.. Washington on
told Lieut. Quinn. who was on the desk,
that he had been in town since Saturday.
He said that he received a telegram yes
terday from the auditor Of the Tuskegee
Institute. d. +. Smith. asking him TO go
| the home of Smiths cousin. also named
Smith. who was living with family
named Moore a, i,is West Six,y-ihird
street
He said that last evening he first went
to church and got to the Sixtythird
street address about 915 p. NJ. He said
that he looked AT the names on the bells
in the vesiibule of libs. which Is an apart
nent house. and was unable to find any
one named Smith.
He said that he may have stayed in
front OF the apartment for few moments
and that he went back several times to
look for Smith Then he said that Ulrch
ran out of the apartment house vestibule
and came at him with a club.
Mr.. Washington said he ran east to
Central Park West and then ran north for
a block on the park side OF the street with
Ulrich close behind beating him. He
positively identified Ulrich as the man
who assaulted him.
Washington was asked about the tele-
gram from the auditor at Tuskegee. but
he didn't have il with him
This is the story as Ulrich told 1t to
the police last night:
He said that his wife had left her rooms
at about o O'Clock to give one OF her dogs
an airing. She found I'm the hallway a
negro who smiled at her as she passed out.
He was well dressed and bowed as she
passed. He was still there when she
came back and again bowed she said.
Mrs. Ulrich presently set out again
with another dog and as she passed the
negro he again smiled. she thought. and
when she came back he addressed her
in familiar manner. When she got
inside she told her husband what she
had seen. 4.
Ulrich put on his coat and passed out
OF the apartment onto West Sixty-thrd
street The negro was still in the hall.
He talked few minutes with some friends
on the street. After a few minutes delay
he returned and then. so he told the
police. he found the negro peering through
a kevhole into the apartment Of Frank
Relett. a chauffeur. who has rooms on
the ground floor.
What are you doing here?" Ulrich
says he asked him.
The negro made no reply, but struck
out. barely missing Ulrioh Then he
ran past him out into West Sixty third
street. A number of Ulrich's friends
who were still in the street took up the
chase. The negro ran toward Central
Park West and then started north, with
the crowd after him
He fell once. picked himself up. fell
again and then third time. Policeman
Kierney took up the chase and took Wash
ington to the West Sixty-eighth street
station house. with ulrich going along a lso.
Ulrich wanted to make n charge of un-
lawful entry against Washington. but the
charge was not entertained.
In Elauor Hoa initial uoo a,;l ho
the patient had cut over his left ear,
but that he was able to leave the hos
pital soon after he was cared for.
The doctors in the emergency ward
at Flower Hospital took sixteen stitches
in two wounds in Mr.. Washington's scalp. |
There WAS also a hemorrhage in the in
terror of his left ear and cut under
his left eve
Booker r. Washington is staying at
the Manhattan Hotel. He returned there |
about midnight but would not see a re-
porter.
Before Mr.. Washington was taken TO |
the Flower Hospital Mrs Lola Ulrich |
appeared in the station house and said |
that Mr. Washington was the man who |
had. spoken 10 her in the hallway Of the |
apartment house. She said that Mr. |
Washington had said Hello, sweetheart"
TO her and that she had seen him walk
ing up and down in front of the house for |
some time before this happened
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