New-York tribune., 1912-04-30
WOMAN BEATEN, ROBBED;
FOUND A RAV|NG LUNANC
PHYSICIANS Fear Victim of Day.
liqht Attack Nay Never
Recover Her Mind.
LIVED ALONE IN FLATBUSH
Man ostensibly Seeking Rooms
Knocks Her Senseless with
Blackjack and Flees
with Savings,

After being knocked on the head win
q blackjack. q widow who lives in Fiat
husb was thrown down a fight of stairs,
her feet and hands were bound ana
then her clothing was ripped from her
body by a robber who sought her money
Yesterday afternoon She was touno
later by a neighbor and vas taken 10
the Kings County Hospital q raving
lunatic. and the doctors fear she VIII
never recover her reason.
The woman is Mrs. Annie MiNell, OF
No. 616 East 32d street. Eleven years
ago her husband bought the two family
house where she lives in the NanderNeer
Park section. A year later he died' anu
ever since she has lived there alone with
her twelve cats TO keep her COMPANY
She is fifty-fve years old. and dependent
on the rental Of the upper floors FER her
spnport. This very fact led to the at
tack upon her.
Mrs Mixelrs husband was the heau
Of the former firm of the Peter MlNell
Piano Company. ct 10Th street and Thrd
syenue. Manhattan. one Of her brothers
is Alexander ]. Newly. Of Newby d
Evans. piano manufacturers. at East
136th street and Southern Boulevard
Another brother is Wellington Newly
of Gloeckner & Newly, Photographic
supplies. at No. 100 Broadway
\ week ago Yesterday the robber went
TO Mrs Mixelrs home and talked about
renting the top floor An agreement was
made and he appeared once more yester-
dsN afternoon at o'clock This time ne
said he wished to measure one of the
rooms for rug. Mrs. Mixell took him
upstairs and he did his measuring. The
landlady started down the steps ahead
Of him.
Knocked Down with Blackjack.
Ng she stood on the second step down
the man struck her with a blackjack and
she rolled and tumbled to the hallway
below. He raced down behind her, and.
grabbing a shawl from her shoulders
hound her feet together and then tied her
hands with handkerchiefs. She was only
half conscious. but came 10 few min
utes later TO find the man standing over
her with a J:tchcr of water in one hand
and a revolver in the other.
Mrs. Mixell had been striped Of all her
clothing in his search for money, and
her hair was soaked with the water he
had thrown on her to revive her. The
man unbound her feet and forced her to
walk ahead of him to bureau I'm her
bedroom. She showed him the drawer,
and he took SIS and $4,000 in jewels,
which he threw in a handbag.
Now. I'm going" he said, but I'm
going to sit outside the front door, and
4 hear you make sound to call any
one I'll come back and shoot you
Found Nude and Half Conscious.
Two and half hours later Mrs.
Brown. who lives next door, remembered
that Mrs. Mxell lad not kept the en-
gagement she had made to meet her.
Mrs Brown went over and opened the
door of No. SIC and found Mrs. MiXell
nude and half conscious on the floor.
When Mrs Brown put smelling salts
beneath Mrs. Mixells nose, the widow
sat up. screamed, and threw her arms
sbout Mrs Browns neck. A patrolman
was summoned, and he called an ambu-
lance from the hospital.
Detectives sat about Mrs. MiXells bed
side in the hospital last night and tried
20 get a connected story from her. 1t is
from her rawlings and mumblingS that
they pieced together the account that
has already been given. The neighbors
furnished the police with a description
Of the man.