The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-05-21
MAKE LATE REPORT TO POLICE
Unknown italian Is Alleged to Have
Acted Queerly Before He Plunged
Blade of Pocket Knife Into Wo-
mans Arn-VictiIn S Injuries Slight.

The police got another mysterious
Italian cutting ARRAY for investigation
on Sunday and this time the victim
of the knife was a woman. On Sun
day the police were notified that Mrs.
Grace Redow, residing at 1014 Park
street, had been attacked by an I'M
known Italian who had stabbed her in
the left arm. The assault was sur
rounded by mystery and the facts Civ
en- to the police by the woman herself
did not go long way toward solving
the mystery. The story It'd to the
police by a brother Of the injured WON
an was to the effect that an Italian
unknown to the members of the family
had gone to the house on Park street
just after nine O'Clock Mrs. Redow
was at home alone at the time and
after a short parley the man plunged
the blade of small knife into her
left arm. The woman was not seri-
ously injured, the wound being little
more than a flesh wound. The fellow
ran from the house immediately after
the attack on the woman and&no trace
of him has been found.
The assault was not reported to the
police until many hours later. When
ar officer was sent to the house to get
the details from the woman she show
ed little willingness to discuss the as
sault. She declared that she did not
know the man who had attacked her
She declared that the man had come
to the house some time ago and had
asked her, Are you happy?" She
had declined to answer the question
and he went away as mysteriously as
he had come and she had not seen him
again until the cutting ARRAY took
place. When the man welded the
knife he is alleged to have said to the
woman, Well, l can t do it to him,
SO / will have to do it to you. !" Mrs.
Redow told the police that the man
had given his name as "Chiodo" at
the time of the former visit to the
house. The woman and members of
her family insist that there was no
cause for the attack upon her and she
declares that so far as she knows she
had never seen the man but on the two
occasions and that she had never Civ
EN- him any reason to come to the
house.
The man who did the cutting was
described as about twenty-three years
Of age and well dressed. He wore a
black suit and a black soft hat. The
police on Sunday night made a search
through the Italian district seeking
any one who answered the description
but not single arrest was made. AS
the man had plenty of time to leave
the city before the case was reported
to the police it is pretty certain that
he is far enough away by this time
to make his escape an easy matter
The police declare that Mrs. Redow
has always borne an excellent reputa-
tion and she has resided in Kenosha
for several years. There is an air of
mystery about the whole affair which
the police hope will be cleared up by
the arrest of the man with the knife.
That the woman was not seriously in
jured was shown by the fact that she
was able to attend to her homework
today,
Some of the Italians who reported
the case to the police intimate that
the woman might have been the vic
him of mistaken identity and that the
knife thrust was meant for some other
woman.