Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-14
Girl Stabbed with a
Scissors Blade in
Her Breast Youth
Is Dying.
LILLIAN SAYS SHE FOUGHT
IN DEFENSE OF HERSELF
Young Man, Facing Death With
Five Gashes in Abdomen,
Says He Stabbed Self After
Wounding Sister.


Fighting desperately in the dark
with her 19-year-old brother, Miss
Lillian Whitestone, a pretty 2O-year-
old stenographer, of 2S7 South Orange
avenue, was stabbed In the breast
with one blade of a pair of scissors
early today.
The brother. John Whitestone, re-
ceived five wounds in the abdomen.
He Is in a critical condition in the
City Hospital, where Lillian, too is
making his fight for life. She has =
fair chance to recover
Whether the girl. with the frenzied
strength of despair, stabbed her
brother first, is a mystery that may
never be solved. The police are in
clined to think she did 1t is thought
improbable that he could have in
fiicted such wounds on himself.
But John, in a statement made to
Lieutenants Ryan and Farrell of po-
lice headquarters. and Sergeant Kel-
let of the Fourth precinct at first in
sisted that his injuries had been in
flicted by himself after he had stabbed
| his sister. He would not tell what
the quarrel between them had been.
He is said to have admitted to County
Physician Mckenzie this afternoon
that his sister had stabbed him and
that his first story was to shield her
Saw Brother in Her Room.
According to Lillian. she was awak-
ened shortly after a. m. and found
her brother in her bedroom, standng
over her
What are you doing John?" she
demanded.
When he did not answer, she be-
came frightened. Once before, on
July 10, SO she said. he had entered
her room at night and she had been
| forced to order him out. Ills action
on the previous occasion flashed into
her mind as she raised herself on
her pillow and told him to leave.
He then attacked her. suddenly and
violently, according to the broken
story she told the detectives at the
City Hospital
Although she did not have
chance to gain her feet she fought
| him off with ali her strength She
| kept him from getting hold on her
| throat and by an almost superhuman
eXertion of force she nearly succeeded
in flinging him from her. At that
moment. SO she said. she felt sharp.
burning sensation. as though of
flame burning into her side. Then
she lost consciousness.
When her father. Berthold White
I stone. and Mrs. Whitestone ran into
the room, they found the girl well
! tering in her blood and John lying
on the floor unconscious
DR.. William Petry, 325 South Orange
avenue, was summoned He ordered
the two removed to the City Hospital.
The girl was taken in the City Hos
| pital ambulance and her brother in
! one from the Fourth precinct police
station.
County Physician Mckenzie went to
the City Hospital to take an ante
mortem statement from John White
stone, but when he saw the condition
of the young man he decided not to
attempt to do so.
An operation was performed on the
man this afternoon in an effort .
save his life. If il is successful ne
may recover
The Whitestones have lived in the
apartment house at South Orange and
Littleton avenues for three years.
The father is window dresser for
a local department store John is 4
sign painter employed by the Ulrich
Sign Company Lillian is stenog-
rapher for New York firm.
Mother Is Frustrated.
AS a result of the tragedy. Mrs.
Whitestone is Frustrated.
She is under the care of physician.
/ Some of the neighbors said today
that they had been under the impress
sion that John Whitestone was not
normal mentally
On the contrary, Frank Suender-
haft, of 1870 Littleton avenue, who
spent the Fourth with him. asserted
that so far as he could tell the young
man seemed a bright, interesting
companion.