The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-04
WIDOW is BEATEN;
ESCORT IS BLAMED
Attacked. She Tells Coroner,
After a Tour Of Broad
way Restaurants.
NEAR DEATH IN HOSPITAL
Maid Disappears and Jewels Too
in Excitement Following
Fight In ParlOr.

Mrs Johanna Mannheim. n patient in
.,s Lexington Sanitarium near death from
. ,rac,ur.d skull told Coroner Healy last
,lgb, of "a struggle with n man IN the
,,,-,o- Of her home at IS West Ninetieth
street early yesterday morning. during
,hch she was beaten TO the floor with
a wrench
hiring the excitemen; IN the house
after her assailant escaped, she said. a
nsv maid known as Yetta ran away with
svs,ry and money 10 the amount of
$1,000.
On April cs Mrs. Mannheim's mother.
Mrs Lena Lehman. advertised for a maid.
ye,,a came the next day and was en-
sased. That evening Mrs. Mannheim
answered n telephone call and was sur
nr,sed to have the person at the other
end OF the wire say he was DIR. Arthur
verney. whom she had met once or twice
two wears ago lie asked IL he might
call the next night and received permits
SON After dinner he asked Mrs Mann
helm IL she would GO out with him sat
urday evening for n trip up and down
Broadway.
Dia mouds Left at Home.
The supposed Nerney arrived al the
house about . o'clock Saturday night. As
they were about to leave Mrs Lehman
noticed diamond bracelet on her daugh-
terra arm. She suggested that II would he
hest to leave 1t at home III they were GO
ing TO be out late. as IL was worth $1,000.
Mrp Mannheim handed 1t to her mother.
Mrs Mannheim told Coroner Healy that
har escort took her TO Broadway res
he
o'clock yesterday morning. Then they
went 10 Columbus Circle. where they ate
in a Chinese restaurant. and about . 80
started for Mrs. Mannheim's home in n
taxicab.
When they got there Mrs. Mannheim
asked the man into the parlor. Then. she
told the Coroner. she received sudden
blow on the head from behind. She turned
and grabbed at Verney's throat. She
caueht his watch chain, which snapped,
and the watch fell TO the floor. The
wrench. wrapped in brown paper and
elk handkerchief. rose and fell on her
right arm as the man tried to break her
fold. and a chance blow broke two OF her
fingers.
Then he turned his attack to her head
again. she says. and after the NTH smash
she fell to the floor. The man ran to he
window, jumped on. to the pavement ten
Central Park.
Then the Maid Disappears.
Mrs Mannheims cry reached her
mother on the door above. Mrs. Lehman.
calling TWO dodgers in the house. ran down
stairs She sent Yetta for Dr. Henry W.
Holes OF ~ West Ninety-second street.
who told her the only chance OF saving
her dauchters life was In an immediate
tDtration.
Yetta Was then sen: for Mrs. Mann
helms brother, Morris, who lives In
Ninet: seventh street. Soon after she
went out Mrs. Lehman wen; TO get money
with which to pay for the private am
bulsnce and found her stronghold empty.
II Il besides the $4,000 bracelet were two
r!ngs set with diamonds worth about $500
md 5000 In cash.
After sending her daughter TO the Lex
ineton Santarium at 40 East SiXty-iirst
street Mrs. Lehman called up Morris, who
kaid he had not seen Yetta- Then all
traces Of the struggle in the parlor werr
removed and the police notified Of the
robbery. Defective ponnelly decided that
ietta rad something TO do with Il. He
was not told OF the assault.
Later IN the day some one in the Lexing-
ton sanitarium called up the Coroner's
once, which in turn notified the police.
coroner Hedly went NJ TO take Mrs.
Mannheims ante-mortem statement, while
detective Colhaine went out TO find a man
answering the description OF Verney.
The nam" Of no DIR. Arthur Nerney'
can he found in any OF the directories of