The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-05
GIRL, ANNOYED BY MAIL, WAYLAID
 AND SLASHED
FLORENCE BOLTON OF GREEN
 WICH TELLS STRANGE STORY OF ATTACK ON HEIR AND NOW
 CARRIES A REVOLVER

Greenwich, Conn, Oct 5-A strange story came out yesterday through the application of Mrs Henry Bouton for a permit for her daughter. Florence. said that her daughters life was in danger The permit was issued.
 Inquiry brought the statement that Miss Bouton, a pretty brunette of 19, was set upon several days ago, and while one man held her. another took a, razor and cut gassh in the end of and then cut a deep "M'' in the skin of her left arm.
 She was painfully injured. but made no complaint to the police and her creoy because of her desire to keep her name out of the papers. on Bible street near the estates of Dr. Jaeger F. w. Gotthield and Err nest Thompson Seton of New York. She showed. the scars on her finger tips and the ''M'' on her arm. Miss Bouton said:
 q should know the men who att tackled me. One was tall and about 30 years of age; the other, who was short tache They were dressed well.
 q have been bothered since Aug New York and sometimes in Port Chester, which have been full of mushy slush I paid no attention to ter two weeks ago inviting me to come to Port Chester at a certain hour in the evening and see the writer. I told Carlo Sorentine, a friend.
 'He and another man accompanied me to Port Chester. I stood on the square for time, while my friends waited on nearby corner. 2s,I9 But the I afterward got a letter from him saying that he did not speak to me because he saw Carlo.
 These letters have been of all sorts. One bore diagram of the interior of my home; another showed a pic ture of a s, stiletto in a bleeding heart @ door knob at night. MT. Sorentine's collie. which stays around my home. would be called into the road and notes for me would be tied around his neck. These notes told me to break with Carlo or I would be kill ed.
 them. One letter apparently was written with blood instead of ink. be- cause it faded so. Two weeks ago was accosted by man on the road who. insisted that he was going to see me home. The dog attacked him and he fired a revolver at it. I went fired a shot out of the window at the man.
 '1The next day I got a letter say ing that I must tell Carlo to leave him and he laughed but he showed me a revolver and said that he was
 
 Last Thursday I was returning home across lots when two men came upon me. One grabbed by arms from behind while the other took a razor and cut deep into the ends of my five fingers. l did not scream; I would not give them that satisfaction but my fingers bled terribly. The smaller fellow did the cutting. He then cut the ''Mf' on my arm saying that that stood for murder and added, Now, go show that to your friend The big fellow told the man with the razor to cut my throat. I dared him to do it and he laughed
 "As soon as they released me I at tackled the man who had the razor the best I could and gave him a kick, I was Gse angry. They laughed at me and one of the men offered me a handkerchief to tie up my bleeding fingers.
 T intend to carry two revolvers hereafter and will kill the first man who lays hands on me-and I am a good shot. too. I'm not engaged to MT. Sorentine but I don't intend to have other people interfere in my affairs
 Sorentine did not seem much wrought up over the incident, but he showed a loaded revolver and produc- ed some of the letters which Miss .Routon had received