The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-21
WASHINGTON CAN'T APPEAR IN COURT Ulrich Claims Wife Was
 Insulted
BOOKER T. EXPLAINS
Says He Was Hunting Friend-Has Eleven Wounds as Result of Fight-Case Will Be
 Heard Today

New York, March 2o-Many prominent men offered aid and sympathy today 10 Booker T. Washington, the negro educa- tor whose bandaged head is mending from cuts and bruises inflicted, he charges. by Albert ulrieh, carpenter and dog fancier during an encounter last night. Dr. Washington was unable to press the charge of assault in court to- day. and his secretary said tonight that 1t was doubtful If he could appear to- morrow afternoon when the case is sched- uled.
 President Seth Low of the board of trustees of the Tuskegee Normal and In dustrial Institute, today gave out the following statement bearing on the as- sault on Booker T. Washington.
 The fafts are Dr. Washington reached New York on Saturday morning from Michigan. Yesterday morning he spent at the Mount Oliver Baptist church, and in the afternoon at the Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn. In the evening about 9 o'clock he started out to find Mir. Smith, a certified public accountant, who is auditor of the Tuskegee Institute, white man whom he expected to find staying with friends at No. 1l1a West Sixty-third street. This is an apartment house of the type occupied by different families on different floors whose names appear with bells on an index below.
 When Dr. Washington first reached the house he entered the vestibule and could get no reply 10 the bell he rang, and so he moved up and down the street and around the neighboring block where the New theater stands and returned to the house twice. each time entering the vestibule, but not inc house.
 Man Assaulted Him
 "On his third visit he entered the vesti- bule and was leaning over to try to find the name he was looking for when sud denly a man rushed in from the street and began to assault him. He defended himself and got out into the street when q second man with stick struck him. Then he tried to escape. when both he and the first one of his assalants were taken to the station house by police man who met them. From the time Dr. Washington left the hotel until the time of the assault he spoke to no one, neither man nor woman.
 Washington, who was sent to Flower hospital, where sixteen stitches were taken in his scalp. asserted that his mis- sion in that neighborhood was perfectly leEllindte dHQ lHdL flt ndu DeBn fnauc the innocent victim of an atrocious as- sault.
 Attorney Smith, who represented Wash ington. told Magistrate Cornell that ..is client had eleven wounds and that one of the wounds had caused a serious hem orrhage of the ear.
 A short affidavit was then made by Policeman Tierney who brought Ulrich to court, and on this the prisoner was held in s1,500 ball. bond was furnished for Ulrich's appearance in court and he was released.
 Ulrich in an interview with his law yers and others in court today said:
 Negro in Hall About 9 o'clock last night my wife took one of our dogs into the street We live on the ground floor of the house, No. 111a West Sixty-third street. When she returned she said she had seen a negro in the hall and that he spoke to her. MT. and Mrs. Ravette and Mrs Knowles, friends of ours, were in the house at the time. I went out and saw man in the hall. The man went out of the vestibule door ahead of me when l came out"
 Ulrich said he saw the negro re-enter the hallway and later saw him bending down at my door peering through the keyhole." Ulrich said that the negro swung a blow at his jaw when he asked him what he wanted and that then he went after the negro, who fell twice in his efforts to escape.
 President Seth Low of the board of trustees of Tuskegee institution gave out long statement this afternoon, explain ing circumstances that led up to the as- sault of Booker Washington. Indirectly. answering the allegations of Washing tpp'S aSSaitant that fhP had r. ed his wife, MT. Low said:
 Prom the time Washington left the hotel until he was assaulted he spoke to nobody, neither with the man nor woman.