The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-03-21
WASHINGTON KEEPS SECLUDED
roo III TO APPEAR AGAINST
ASSAILANT ULRICH.
Seth Low. President Of Tuskcgee Trus.
tees. Expresses Con ndenco In Negro
Educator Washington Keep, Com.
+ piete silence by Advice Of Iuis Counsel.

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Educator -washinEton Keeps Com.
+ plete silence by Advice OF Ilis Counsel.
Booker T. Washington. who was as
.suted on Sunday night by Henry A..
rlrch OF M West Sixty-third street, did
not appear in court yesterday to press the
charge because Of the injuries that he re-
ceived. Mr.. Washington spent the day
in his room at the Hotel Manhattan. where
a good many OF his friends visited him and
offered to do what they were able to assist
him in clearing up the matter.
Seth Low. president Of the board Of
trustees Of Tuskegee Institute, of which
Mr.. Washington is the head. took the lead
10 explaining MIR. Washingtons 8 side OF the
case. The negro educator himself refused
in any way to discuss the matter. acting
upon the advice OF counsel. Wilford C.
smith, a negro lawyer Of this city. Seth
Low issued a statement. District Attor-
ney Charles s. Whitman, who was in the
hotel at the time, went up to Mr.. Washing
ton s room and read it over before Mr.. Low
gave it out to the newspapers.
There were 80 many conflicting stories
floating about yesterday that MIR. Low
deemed it advisable to say something that
would present the facts of MIR. Washing
toms visit to West Sixty-third street. so
far as he was familiar with them. This
is the statement:
As president o: the board OF trustees of
1usSegee Institute | was shocked to read
this morning OF the assault that had been
made upon DR.. Washington last night.
The facts are these DIR. Washington reached
New YORK on Saturday morning from
Michigan. Yesterday morning he spoke
III Mount Olivct Church and in the afternoon
al the church of Pilgrims. Brooklyn In the
evening about O'Clock he started out to
find Mr. Smith. a certified public accountant.
who is auditor of Tuskegee Institute, a
white gentleman. whom he expected to find
staying with friends at llis West Sixty
third street.
This is an apa rtment house Of the type
occupied by different families on different
floors. whose names appear with bells on an
index below. When Dt Washington first
reached the house he entered the vestibule
but could get no reply to the bel. he rang
And so he moved up and down the street
and around the neighborinG block, where
The New Theatre stands. and returned to the
house twice. each time entering the vesti-
hule but not the house. On his third visit
lie entered the vestibule and was leaning
over trying to find the name he was looking
FOR when suddenly a man rushed in from the
street and began to assault him.
He defended himself and got out into the
street, when second man with a stick
struck him. Then he tried to escape. when
both he and the first OF his assailan,s were
taken to the station house by policeman
who met them. From the time Dr. WASH
ington left the hotel until he was assaulted
he spoke TO nobody. either man or woman.
The trustees Of Tuskogee Institute have
absolute confidence in DR., Washington and
they will give to him whatever support and
aid he needs
None Of those concerned in the case
would comment Yesterday on the telegram
which Mr.. Washington said on Sunday
night he had received from ID. c. Smith
auditor Of Tuskegee. When he pressed
his complaint in the West Sixty-eighth
street station Mr.. Washington mentioned
such a message and said that that was
his reason for being in the neighborhood
OF West Sixtythird street. but he did not
show any telegram 10 the police. 1t was
reported that MIR. Washington had said
that he was looking for q cousin Of Mr..
Smith. Mr.. Lows statement, however,
asserts that he was trying to find MIR.
Smith himself at liIa West Sixty-third
street.
Daniel c. Smith is a public accountant
an Of
a! Washington avenue. Mon:clair. n. j..
hut when reporter called there last
eeht carctaker. who was the only
Wson in the house. said tina. Mr. Smith
vas in Tuskegee and had been there for
month He said that Mr.. Smith was a
isstee of Tusdegee Institute. The care
tSer knew of no relatives of Mr.. Smith
helng in New York and had heard Of no
lelegrams that may have passed between
Mr. Smith and Mr.. Washington.
There was a good deal of excitement
and curiosity in the West Side police
court yesterday when Ulrich was ar
ralgned on the charge OF assault. Before
lrlch's lawyer. James I. Moore, who
has acted for him on other occasions.
reached the court William j. Gibson of
3! Nassau street offered his services as
o'lnsei and Ulrich accepted them. Will
lord Smith, Washington's attorney. pre-
sehted certificate signed -Botsford.
NJ D., which said that Mr.. Washington
was too i'll to appear in court.
Whereupon Mr., Gibson asked Magis-
tiate Cornell to parole the prisoner in his
custody. but the Magistrate declined
10 do any such thing and held Ulrich
III $500 bail. Ulrich was released later.
throughout the day everybody who
professed to know anything of what
'ooh place on Sunday night told and
Ie'old his information, But Attorney
smith was silent. saying that in court
to-day Mr.. Washington would soy all
That was necessary and that until then
ne would offer no comment. Late in the
afternoon Mr.. Smith called upon Mr..
Moore in the latters Office at 800 West
fNty-fourth street. The two conferred
Tor time and Mr.. Smith went away,
while Mr. Moore remainedsand explained
Vat there wasn't anything to announce.
ise case will be called as scheduled this
n''ernoon. said Mr.. Moore.
As to Ulrich, MIR. Moore said that al
'h"ngh he was a carpenter who received
contracts his real business was at. 779
ELEVENTH avenue, where he exchanged
u'sS and sold them. That was how
M'a. llrich happened to be walking up
ana down West Sixty-third street with