Smyrna times., 1911-11-08
EDUCATOR FAILS
TO PROVE CHARGE
ASSAILANT OF BOOKER WASH
INGTON ACQUITTED
Story of Attack on Him by Ulrich is
Told. in Court and Latter is Held
For Wife Desertion.

Henry A. Ulrich, who has been held
since March 10 on the charge of as
saulting DR.. Booker T. Washington,
the negro educator, outside of Ulricn
premises, was acquitted by the JUS
tices of the court of special sessions
in New York.
Immediately thereafter he was ar
rested again on the charge of being
fugitive from justice, preferred by
the police authorities of Orange, N. j.,
where the Essex grand jury in its
April term found an indictment
against Ulrich for the abandonment of
his wife.
In default of securing bail Ulrich
had to go to the TOmbs. Booker T.
Washington left the court room after
the decision of the justices on Ulrichs
case had been rendered without COM
.ment.
When DR.. Washington took the
stand to tell about the events leading
to the assault made upon him by Ul-
rich he seemed to be not entirely at
ease, and on several occasions during
his giving of testimony he answered
| questions by Il am not quite sure" or
Il cannot recall"
In the course of his direct examina-
| tion DR.. Washington said:
Il was looking at the namepla;es in
| the vestibule when the defendant
rushed in and grabbed me around the
neck and began to beat me. He said,
You are trying to break into this
house., and he kept striking me. de-
Tended myself and | believe l hit him
once.
But he was getting the better Of
me and l pulled open the front door
and ran out. There we're two or three
persons out there, and heard the man
who was assaulting me say, Give me
that stick Then he struck me over
the head with it time and again.
grew so weak that l fell down on the
sidewalk and still he continued to
strike me-"
James l. Moore, Ulrich's counsel,
wanted to know on cross-eXaminatiOn
who it was that Washington wanted to
see in the West Sixty-third street
apartment house. Washington answer
ed that it had been one D. c. Smith
the auditor of Tuskegee, and that he
had been under the impression thai
Smith was stopping there temporarily
with a family by the name of Nc
Clure.
Later, after Mrs. LOra Alvarez, wht
lived in the same apartment house
and who was known by some as Mrs
Ulrich, had testified that on the nigh
of the assault Washington had fol
lowed her when she was out giving
French bulldog an airing on Broad
way. DR.. Washington was recalled b.
the prosecution to deny that he hat
followed Mrs. Alvarez.
81 never followed any woman in m.
life," the witness said with a sharl
shake of the head.
When Mrs. Alvarez was called TO
the defense she said that the frs
time she left the house that evening
she came upon Washington stoopinl
over and looking through the keyhol
in the door of the apartment of Fran
els J. Revet;e, on the first floor an
just within the entrance door of tn
apartment house.
Il came upon him so suddenly b
didn't have time to straigten up" wa
the way the witness described the eT
counter. "He didn't say anything, bu
turned and walked out of the hous
behind me. came back later to tax
another dog out to walk, and Dl
Washington was on the steps of tn
house. Later | saw him standing
the middle Of Broadway looking at m
as I was crossing at Sixty-third stree
and I almost ran home.
The witness said she told Ulrich {
the negro accosting her and Uric
went out and assaulted DR.. Washing
l