Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-02-22
PREFERS CELL TO
STRENUOUS BLOWS
OF ENRAGEO GIRL
John Rodie Badly Beaten by
Sister OF Woman lie
Attacks.
MISS ANNIE CHADWICK
LEAVES MARKS OF FIST
Accused Was Employed by Vol
unteers of America as
Driver.

John Rode who claims tc be q MEM
Der of the Volunteers OF America, was
very glad to get the alternative of a
Jail cell today instead OF enother such
pummeling as Annie Chadwick gave
him two days ago, when he entered
her home under guise of collecting
her younger sister.
According to the story told by Ella
Chadwick in Judge Herr's Second Pre-
cinct Court today, she was alone in
at 20 Highland avenue, in the after
noon, when Rode drove UP In one of
the carts that the Volunteers of Amer
lea employ to collect papers, clothing
and old furniture to aid the poor.
When he entered under that plea and
asked her If there wasn't something
her family would give, the 17-year- old
girl said she would ask her mother
But as she turned to so upstairs she
says, the man caught her about the
waist, flung his arms about her and
hurled her against the wall.
Sister PummcIed Rode.
Ella tried to fight him off, but she
is not strong girl, and he was quick
ly mastering her frail strength, when
she screamed for help. The sister An
ME ran to the head of the stairway
above and took in the situation at a
glance. Ella was still writhing In the
mans grasp, when she sped down the
stairway, clenched her fist and dealt
him q blow that sent him reeling
against the door. Her sister, utterly
spent from her struggle, fell upon the
floor. but Annie leaped over her body
and struck Rode again and again, as
he cringed against the wall. Finally she
opened the door and flung him bodily
into the street, then went back and.
with the aid of her mother, carried her
sister to bed.
Reported TO Police.
The man Rode drove hurriedly away
In his charity cart. but when Harry
Chadwick, the father of the girls, came
home that night they told him of the
attempted assault, and what he in turn
told to Captain John e. Brown, of the
ceCOnu GTeClIct station, caused tnat
police officer to hustle his two best
men, Goodwin and Harmon, out to get
the assailant. They didn't know the
mans name, but Miss Annie had told
them that she thought one of her blows
at least had left a mark, and pretty
soon the detectives spotted a man driv-
ing a cart in Market street toward
Littell place, where the Volunteers of
America have their headquarters.
They noticed just such a mark on the
SIDE of his cheek as the angry
girls clenched fist might have made,
and took him in on suspicion.
Admitted the Assault.
Before Judge Herr this morning he
denied his guilt at first, but wilted
under a positive Identification made by
Miss Ella Chadwick. well, even If
did go to their house. it was all
mistake" the prisoner said.
1T looks to me much more like
particularly brutal crime" the Judge
flashed back. I'm going to hold you
In $1,000 bail for the grand jury, and
in the meantime I'm going to have your
connection with the Volunteers of
America thoroughly investigated. II
this charge is true and they really
permit you to work in their name that
is another shame that will be stopped"