The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-06-24
FIND TWO WOMEN BOUND
MOTHER AND DAtGHTER SAY
1 NAN DRt GGED THEN.
They Are in bad shape In Harlem HOspl.
tai-The Men Of the Family can't see
That Anything Was stolen. but the
Apartment Was Considerably Upset.

Annie Apple was bending owe: the
washtubs in her rooms at 2i60 Third ave-
nue. yesterday afternoon when the bell
rang and a man who said he was n gas
inspector walked in According to Annie
who is - years Did. the man was about
six feet tall and wore dark clothes and :
cap. He came into the kitchen whore
she wes working and SGT down Then
she says he asked her who else was in the
apartment She told him that her II her
Mrs Marie Apple was asleep in bed
room adjoining the kitchen
The man walked around the kitchen
for while. tried various chairs and
seemed 10 forget all about gas meters
Finally. Annie says. she grew suspicious
and started to arouse her mother A.
she went To the door tho man stopped
her. Then the girl screamed The man
jumped at her and Annie says she hit him
in the face with her open hand He threw
her across a tub, she says and chohed
her As she opened her mouth 70 scream,
again Annie says the man forced some
sort of bitter liquid down her throat
Mrs Apple heard her daughter scream
and Jumped out of bed Just as she 60,
to the door of her room the big man
stumbled in and threw her down on the
bed Mrs Apple says thai she tried to
fight back but that the man was tco strong
for her According to her story she too
was forced to swallow something bitter
That was the last she knew
Goldie Apple. the siX-year-old daughter
of the family, had been sent TO buy some
stationery and when hse came ups, airs
she caught one glimpse of her sister lying
unconscious over "A tub in the kitchen
and she saw that everything in the apart :
men' had been turned upside down
Chairs were pointing their legs TO the
ceiling. water from the tubs was towing
over the floor and the kitchen table was
lying on its side.
The little Cirl legged it To .0l East Iisth
street. where she knew the ianitreSs of
the apartment there. Mrs Margare; Ihest
nut. who called Policeman WolTe of the
East I26th street polio. station
Wolfe ran upstairs and found thai
Annie was unconscious and tha: she was
gagged with strip of linen torn an
parently from the slce?c of a mans shut
In the bedroom he found the mo- her also
unconscious. with Il slit pillow slip twisted
Across her mouth
Ut, hitt"r OF hdti"nl ho-pitai came q
the policeman call. and the frs, thing
his foot struck against in the dark hallway
was three ounce empty bottle The
doctor said that the women We're suffer
ing from some sort OF stomach poisoning
just as they were being taken to the
hospital the men OF the family, Frederick
Apple. a cabinet maaer and his son Fred
erick, Jr, who works on a moving van.
came up They examined the rooms care
fully, but they said last night that az far
as they knew the sir foot man had not
taken anything in spite Of his work. The
women revived AT the hospital. whore thev
told their stories Their condition Is
serious
Annie Apple appeared in tho papers
last August whom a baseball PLAYER named
John Kennedy committed sui eide ca the
roof Of The house in which she lived
Kennedy al the time was said TO have
been paying attentions to the Eirl