Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-11-11
ZURICH ACQUITTED
Booker Washington Fails
TO Win Case.
WHITE MAN is Rf.ARRESTFD
Noted Colored Educators Story Of
Attack Made on Him in New
York Does Not Convince
the Court.
WHITE MAN is Rf-ARRfSTFD

New York, Nov. Henry A. Ulrich.
the white man who was charged with
an assault last March upon Booker T.
Washington, the colored educator and
head of the. Tuskegee institute, was
acquitted in the court of special SEES
sions.
Immediately thereafter he was ar
rested again on the charge of being
fugitive from justice, preferred by
the police authorities OF Orange, N. j.,
where the Essex grand jury in its
April term found an indictment
against Ulrich for the abandonment OF
his wife.
In default of securing bail Ulrich
had to go to the Tombs. Booker 7.
Washington left the court room after
the decision OF the justices on Ulrich S
case had been rendered without com
ment.
When DR.. Washington took the
stand to tell about the events leading
to the assault made upon him by III
rich he seemed to be not entirely at
ease, and on several occasions during
his giving of testimony he answered
questions by 81 am not quite sure" or
IL cannot recall"
In the course OF his direct examina-
tion DR.. Washington said:
II was looking at the municipalities in
the Vestibule when the defendant
rushed in and grabbed me around the
neck and began to beat me. He said,
You are trying to break into this
house, and he kept striking me. ! de-
Tended myself and | believe | hit him
once.
But he was getting the better OF
me and | pulled open the front door
and ran out. There were two or three
persons out there, and heard the man
who was assaulting me say, Give me
that stick Then he struck me oyei
the head with 1t time and again.
grew so weak that | fell down on the
sidewalk and still he continued to
strike me-"
James l. Moore. Ulrich's counsel,
wanted to know on cross examination
who it was that Washington wanted to
see in the West Sixty-third street
apartment house. Washington answer
ed that it had been one ID. G. Smith.
the auditor of Tuskegee, and that he
had been under the impression that
Smith was stopping there temporarily
with family by the name of Nc
Clure.
Later, after Mrs. Lora Alvarez, who
lived in the same apartment house,
and who was known by some as Mrs.
Ulrich, had testified that on the night
of the assault Washington had fol
lowed her when she was out giving a
French bulldog an airing on Broad
way. DR.. Washington was recalled by
the prosecution to deny that he had
followed Mrs, Alvarez.
81 never followed any woman in my
shake of the head.
When Mrs. Alvarez was called for
the defense she said that the first
time she left the house that evening
she came upon Washington STOPPING
over and looking through the keyhole
els ]. Revette, on the first floor and
just within the entrance door of the
apartment house.
81 came upon him so suddenly he
didn't have time TO straigten up" was
the way the witness described the en-
counter. "He didn't say anything but
turned and walked out of the house
behind me. | came back later to take
another dog out to walk, and DIR.
Washington was on the steps of the
house. Later l saw him standing in
the middle of Broadway looking at me
as | was crossing at Sixty-third street
and | almost ran home.
The witre ss said she told Ulrich OF
the ner accosting her and Ulrich
went oat and assaulted DR.. Washing
ton.