The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-10-14
NO CLUE TO GIRLS ASSAILANT
AGNES WAtGH STILL Unable
TO TELL ABOtT ASSAULT.
o.. soldier VINO Was l'ndcr Arrest Us set
Free soldiers Talk In saloon Dis
credited AT Fort Hamilton story OF
Nearby Resident Adds 10 the Mystery.

Agnes Waugh. the ninetcen-year-old
girl who was attacked on Wednesday
evening as she was nearing hcr home, al
i?s Eighty-third street, Bay Ridge, dragged
into vacant lot adjoining the house ana
cruelty mistreated was sad 10 NC OUT
nf danger yesterday, hut she hfd ho'
recovered sufficiently to tell the police
n connected story or give descrlp'loh
vt her assailant. Lacking this capt.
Van Wagner in charge OF the squad of
detectives who have been working on the
case. admitted that there seemed To I've
no present likelihood of catching tho man
who attacked Miss Waugh
The only now information which the
detectives have To work on came from
Michael Spring of SIS Eghty-'our'n
street. Spring is a Marathon runner
, and the coach Of the Fourteenth R'H!nlHn'
track team He told Capt Van Wagner
{ that some time ago when he lived further
down town he had trouble with man
I who later threatened him and who. he
said, had been seen recently hang
about the neighborhooi in company
with another man. Early i'll September
Spring said young girl was wa king
/ along the stree near his house. when Is
near tn q Fifth avenue corner where Miss
Wau gh got off .he trolley car just before
sha was attacked, when a man Juinped
out Of the bushes mumbled something
and iumped back To cover again. The
description of the min whicl ,th' Elil
gave tailed so Spring siid. with that OF
the man who had threatened him.
Springs story Interested the ro,ic" and
they started out last night 10 pucS'loh
tn. man named hy spring.
Spriuu also told the detectives tnat on
Wednesday night he was standing at
Eighty fourth street and thth avenue
M the time Miss Waugh ahght"d from
! the car at the Eighty-,hird street corner.
He saw the car stop, but didn't notic1..
whether any one got on He had with
him five bulldogs whlcn he keeps 10 guard
his house and soUlc ot the dogs were
running about the vacant lot. spring
heard no cries and he says that ms dogs
did not appear To have been aware of the
struggle that was taxing place u le"
hundred feet away.
Benjamin Putnam. an ex-s"'dier from
Fort Hamilton, who was arrested on
Thursday nigh, and locked up on charge
of stealing "A former comrades trousers
was discharged Yesterday when ar
raigned in court The soldier of the miss
ing trousers said Putnam didnt steal
them. Putnam was picked up because tho
Diet .ctives had heard from saloon Keeper
near the fort of n soldier who had been
drinking there on the night that MISS
Waugh was attacked and whose talk ex-
cited the saloon Keepers suspicion IL
had been thought that Putnam might
know something about the other soldier
but he didn't tell anything.
The detectives had pinned good deal
of faith To the story told by the saloon
keeper Of a soldier who boasted Of his
evil ways and said that he had been SO
bad tha, he hadn't received pay for six
months But Capt. Phisterer. in COM
mand at the fort. said Yesterday that none
! Of the men stationed there had returned
drunk or in a manner 10 attract suspicion
on Wednesday night and that there was
no man in the fort whose pay had been
held up, except prisoners in the guard
house all of whom had been locked ur
: long before the attack upon Miss Waugh
The police were still inclined TO continue
their investigations of the movements
If the soldiers. but the saloon keeper
! becoming alarmed because, he said. h,
feared that his place would he wrecked
hy indignant soldiers. refused To have
onvthing more to do with the matter,
Miss Waugh. her father saws. IL not rs
badly hurt as was at first supposed. Hel
law was not broken. II IL extremely
doubtful if she has conclusion Of the
brain, and il is said that her fever il sub
, siding She is still extremely nervous
however. and at times is hysterical. Sht
told Capt. Van Wagner yesterday that She
didn't remember being attacked. and thai
in fact she remembered nothing after
, leaving the car until she awoke to con
seriousness in the field to find man chok
ing her. She thought that the man hat
, unusually large and very rough hands
, and that he wore a cap with visor, hui
she was not sure even Of this
, The police arrested late last night 4
, man who was hiding in the bushes a
Seventy ninth street and Shore Road
Residents neaf there saw him and tele
: phoned to the Fort Hamilton station
He gave the name of Paul Kranisky anc
said that he had no home He seemed t,
be slightly irrational and could not ac
count for his actions on Wednesday o
Thursday night He was locked mp ol