Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-21
EDUCATOR BADLY HURT
Booker 7. Washington Unable to APP
pear Against Assailant.
ELEVEN WOUNDS IN HIS SCALP
Man who Attacked Him Says He Mis-
took Him for PrOwIer-VictIm
Says He Was Looking for
Address OF Friend.

| NEW YORK, March 20.-BoOker T wash
ington was not able to appear in court to-
day because OF the injuries he received last
night according to the statement of his
attorney, and the hearing of the charge
against Albert Ulrich, the carpenter ar
rested last night on his complaint Of fe-
lonious assault, was postponed until to-
morrow. Ulrich was held I'm Sl5OO bail
Ulrich, a white man, maintains today
that he was acting within his rights when
he pursued the negro educator for several
blocks before a policeman appeared. Ig-
norant Of the negro's identity, he declared
that his wife had complained to him of a
negro she had met in the hallway of their
flat house in West sixty-third street
Mr.. Washington, who was sent to Flower
hospital, where sixteen stitches were taken
in his scalp, asserted that his mission to
that neighborhood was perfectly legitimate
and that he had been made the innocent
victim Of an atrocous assault.
Attorney Smith. who represented Mr.
Washington. told Magistrate Cornell that
his client had eleven wounds and that one
OF the wounds had caused a serious hemor-
rhage of the ear
A short affidavit was then made by Po-
liceman Tierney, who brought UIrich to
court, and on this the prisoner was held in
1850 bail A bond was furnished for u
rich's appearance in court and he was re-
leased. .
Mr. Washington, who went to his apart
ments at the Hotel Manhattan after hav-
ing his wounds dressed, told the police
that he had received a letter from his sec
rotary saying that d. c. Smith, the auditor
OF Tuskegee college. Of which he is the
head, was in New York City and desired
to see him. -,i .az
This letter said Mr.. Smith was stop
ping with a cousin, giving the name and
address," said Mr. Washington. ION Sun
| day l attended ohdroh services twice and,
after speaking at one church in the even
ing, recalled the letter concerning Smith
and decided to look him up. But 1 dis.
covered that "A had left the letter at the
hotel, but I thought l could recall the
name, as something like Moore, and the
address as being In West Sixty-third
| street / went there and commenced to
| look at the name plates on the letter
boxes in the halls of the different houses,
seeking the name of Mr. smiths cousin.
1t was while thus engaged that 1 was at
! tackled"
UIrich in an interview with his lawyers
and others i'm court said:
About 8 O'Clock last night my wife went
/
of the house, No 111a West sixty-thrd
street. When she returned she said she
| had seen a negro in the hall and that he
| spoke to her. Mr.. and Mrs. Ravette and
| Mrs. Knowles, friends of ours, were In the
house at the time. 1 went out and saw
a man in the hall Of the vestibule door
ahead OF me-"
Ulrich said he saw the negro re-entei
the hallway and later saw him bend
ing down at my door peering through the
| keyhole." Ulrich said the negro swung
blow at his Jaw when he asked him wha
he wanted. and that then he went afte
the negro who fei: twice in his efforts
to escape.
Statement by Seth Low.
President Seth Low of the board OF
trustees OF the Tuskegee Normal and In.
dustrial institute, today gave out 2 state
men bearing on the assault OF Mr.. Wash
ington. Mr. Lows statement was prac
tically the same as the one made by Mr.
Washington. In conclusion he said: