The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-01-21

Of the young bride, but the victims
refrained from reporting them either
through fear Of not being believed or
dread Of the notoriety which was
certain to follow.
Miss Jeanette Clark, also Of New
ark, is one OF these young women
who have given new evidence to the
police. Her experience happened In
the same theater in which Mrs. Graft
was attacked. She was occupying an
orchestra seat next to a box and no.
ticed dark-comnle1ioned young
man lean over the rail Of the box Just
before she felt sting in her hand as
she tried to place her coat over the
back Of her seat. Her arm became
numb, and when she began to feel
dizzv she hurried to the women's
waiting room. where she tainted.
She was revived and. upon going
back for her coat. noticed that the
vonng man in the box. together with
the two men in the row Immediately
ahead Of her. with whom he had
been conversing. had disappeared.
After telling her story to the police.
Megaro was brought before Miss
Clark. but she failed to identify him.
Young women in New York citv
have had their share Of the needle
thrusts. also. Mrs. Roger S. Bacon.
society woman engaged in philan-
thronical work. tells Of case which
came to her attention.
The case was that Of pretty
Young married woman who came to
New York from the suburbs for din
ner and the theater.' She was to
meet her husband. The only train
she could take came In an hour or so
earlier. She went to a poving pic
tnre show, and while sitting there
felt a pin prick in her shoulder.
Then she felt faint and. thinking
the fresh air would help her. went
outside. She was to meet her hus-
hand at that roint. She had scarcely
got outside when she fell. An ambu-
lance was called and her husband.
who arrived. had great difficulty IN
making them understand he was her
husband. especially after the surgeon
had seen a hypodermic needle had
been used.
Mrs. Samuel c. Van Deusen. an
other New York society woman and
rhilanthronist. has investigated three
stories Of young women who have
FELT the poisoned needle. In telling
OF the case she said:
One case Is that Of a young girl
who came to New York with her
mother for the purpose Of shooping.
They separated to meet at depart
ment store. The girl, having some
time to spare, went to a first class
moving picture house on Broadway.
Twice she felt the prick OF pin
near her collar. She was seated In
the rear Of the theater In semi-dark-
ness. After the second lab she got
no. it being time to meet her mother.
She felt faint and dizzy and reached
the denartment store. where she was
he1ned to the retiring room. An ex-
animation. It is said, showed the
marks OF the needle in her back near
the neck.
Another case told Of by Mrs. Van
Duesen was Of a salesgirl In an up
town millinery establishment. She
was sitting in a moving picture show
when she fe1t a nrick in her arm. and
thousht she had been stuck by pin.
A while later she felt dizzy and be-
came so faint she had to be assisted
to the street by an usher. An elderly
man also assisted her She was un-
able to speak. but could understand
that he was telling those around that
she was his daughter and he would
see her safely home. In her terror
she managed to cry out:
"No, no. He is not my father
he IS not my father"
In the excitement that followed
tAe e1iarIv man. wearing q beard