New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-13
POLICE SAY SOLDIER
ATTACKED MISS WAUGH
Arrest of Enlisted Man at Fort
Hamilton Expected This
Morning.
CERTAIN OF HIS IDENTITY
incidentally q Private Just Dis
charged Is Arrested for Theft
as He Is About TO
Leave City.

! the assailant as one Of the soldiers sta
toned at Fort Hamilton.
Miss Waugh was still in critical COM
dition last night Dr. David Living
stone. Of 80. 323 72d street. who at
| tended her, said that she was suffering
/ from conclusion Of the brain and that
/ her right jaw was broken. while her body
was bruised in many places. She has
/ been able TO speak only q few words
/ since she was found by her mother and
carried TO her home but these have been
enough 20 show that she could not iden-
/ tify the man who assaulted her. Sus-
ricion became fastened on tho soldier at
Fort Hamilton through the talk Of a
I comrade in one of the saloons near the
/ fort
! After the story OF the assault was pub
/ Hshed i'm the papers YESTERDAY morning
George Hanson, saloonkeeper. told he
police of the Seth street station Of
soldier who had talked on Wednesday
night of an occurrence that resembled
tt, attack on Miss Waugh. and this
man was traced TO the saloon Of James
Hartman. where with another soldier
/ he had INDUCED once more i'm The same
. kind Of talk Albert l.. Hawkins. who
I keeps a cigar store AZ No. 42l 99th street.
toll the police Yesterday afternoon that
BENJAMIN Putnam. q private in the
. I'D Company. Coast Artillery. was
about 10 leave the fort. The police fol-
lowed Putnam and arrested him at the
. pier Of the Maine steamship Company.
Saws Putnam Owed Him SO.
According to HawNns's story. Putnam
owed him SO and was trying TO get
Iavav without paying it. Hawkins said
t,at Putnam called at the cigar store on
Wednesday night and said that he in
tended 10 leave the army and 20 to BinE-
Ibamtor y. Y. where his father and
mother lived and whore no had an -ncle
who was practising physician. As Put
nam did not offer 20 pay the SIC" HaW-
llfins went TO the fort Yesterday, and
Ie,dirr that Putnam had already gone
Informed the police.
Putuam's story 20 the police was that
.ro was thirty years old and had been III
tho army for ten years and six months
sor,.irr most of that time mp 10 seven
months ago Ar Fort Williams, near Port
land Ne Seven months ago Ie was
transferred 10 Fort Hamilton. ana TWO
weeks ago H. applied for permission 10
n,,,. his discharge from the army. He
ma tu., ,ears and five months 20 serve
nd arranged 10 buy the discharge for
SOS At 10 O'Clock yesterday morning ne
cot his final papers and left the i'rt
t1is trunI, was taken ON the General
,,.i.s to the auartermaster depot al
p;or 1a East River. and Acting Captain
'c.,,orIir i'm charge Of the detectives Oh
r,..ell,,..,, and Queens. arrived at the pier
with Detectives pitman, D"Fer anu
t1orre lust as Putnam was CARVING ms
..r,,rl, away from the pier on his shoulder
tr,,rl, that was 20 take II 70 the
>-,,.,b star of the Maine Steamship COM
-. o. pier >. East River. They ioi-
I,red Putnam to the North star anu
,pera found that he had engaged state
room, No. 81 for Portland.
Laid for Theft Of Trousers.
n...rar,,s trunk was searched. and IN
e.. - end pair Of doeskin trousers
to,orgi,r Il is said. to Private Mullins
.or the 129d Coast ARTILLERY. putnam 'o'u
tho noljce that he was going 20 Portland
H. ,,isir cronies at Fort Williams. lie
80 ,.ras.ed and taken TO Brooklyn Po-
,,.a tIoadouarters. and Hanson was
,...,,,b+ there to identify him, but failed
90 Putnam was then taken 10 the
sGtb street station and locked UP on the
cbarqo Of stealing the trousers ON tHe
~. from the North star 70 Brooklyn
Putnam paid Hawkins the $40
Miss Waugh's story TO her mother was
.,o+ sbe was attacked within a few
ct of the corner Of SD street and Fifth
ayen,e. She is twenty-five years Old
ord is a stenographer for John ;. Jen-
Line AZ No. 100 Broadway. ordinarily
ot,. rearbes home between 6.3o and {
.,,Ioou but on Wednesday night she was
.vrected a little earlier. as she was 10
CO +o the theatre with Chester Hayn. a
travelling salesman for a jewelry iirin'
who is a friend Of several years standing.
She was the only passenger on the
stra--rar on which she came home on
Wednesday night and reached SD street
az about 6.35 o'clock. The street At that
point is lighted by only a single gas
lamp al the corner. Miss Waugh said
that soon after she got beyond the radius
~ the light n man came up behind her
and nut nis hand over her mouth. She
could only tell that II was large, rougn
hand and the fingers coarse and heavy.
The man Immediately choked her with
his other hand. and she knew nothing
more until she was carried into the house
by her father.
Girl Found Near Her Home.
The girl was found by her mother near
a small tree about two hundred feet from
the house. She was crawling 10 the
street on her hands and knees and call
ling for her mother. Thirty feet back
from the street were signs of a struggle
and various articles Of the girls clothing
were found scattered about the ground.
Acting Captain Coughlin took charge
lcf the case yesterday and put three men
from the Brooklyn Headquarters 10 work
on IL. A thorough search was made Of
the Italian settlement a few blocks from
the scene Of the crime and one half
witted Italian was arrested, but he was
soon able 10 prove an alill