The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-08-24
BATTLE IN DARK FOLLOWS
She Had Been Accosted by Stranger
Sunday Night AS She Sat on
Door Steps and He Came
Again Last Night.

MISS Elizabeth kruckman, W1Im0t,
the guest Of her sister, Miss Emma
Kruckman, nurse on South Main
street, was brutality attacked by
strange man calling himself George
Davis, accompanied by two companions
at eleven o'clock last night in her
sister IS apartment.
Miss Kruckman, who was alone at
the time, has been with her sister since
last January and has stayed alone in
the little apartment much of the time
without having had any unpleasant ex-
periences until that of Monday night.
That she was not more seriously in
jured was due to her screams which
aroused a neighbor in an apartment
which has rear door just opposite to
that of the Kruckman apartment.
When the neighbor heard Miss
Kruckman s shrieks for aid she called
the police department., but before the
police arrived the intruders had rushed
away leaving no trace behind them.
Miss Kruckman told the story of
the happening as follows:
Because of the excessive heat of
Sunday night sat on my doorsteps
about eighty thirty p. m. in an effort
to get cool. A young man passed and
accosted me asking if Shorty was
there. As I have a girl chum who is
sometimes called Shorty I answered
him, thinking it might be some friend
of hers that she had asked to meet
her there. Upon further questioning I
found that the man did not know my
friend. He then began getting familiar
in his manner toward me. / started
into my lower hallway with the idea
of turning on the light to get better
look at him when he followed me in.
I threatened to send for the police I'M
less he left Immediately and he snapped
the light off and told me he was not
afraid of any police and when T hur-
ried up the stairs to get away from
him he followed me and. came into nv
sitting room and hung around. / finally
got rid of him after he had been impu-
dent and attempted to put his arms
around me.
Monday night at about eleven
O'clock T heard ring at my bell and
the door ratified. thought it was my
girl chum who often stops in after
she has been at the theatre, and went
down to let her in. AS soon as I
opened the door the same man who had
aecosted me the night before pushed
partly in to the door and although
attempted to do SO could not get him
out again. There were two other men
with him.
II started up the stairs, telling him
that my sister would be home in few
moments and that there would be trou-
BILE for him if she found him there. AS
[ got to the landing Of the stairs I
snapped on the lights but as the light
is controlled also by a switch at the
foot of the stairs, he snapped off the
light as often as I could snap it on.
Another larger man then entered the
hallway and it was he who followed
me up stairs.
ran toward the kitchen with the
idea of getting the kitchen door open
and screaming, but before T could do
that the man had caught me and drag
ged me toward my bedroom which
opens off the hall that the Kitchen ad-
joins. He threw me to the bed and
in the struggle which ensued he tore
my underwear. I kicked, scratched,
pinched and slapped at his face but he
had put his hand over my mouth as he
dragged me from the kitchen and had
placed pillow over my face on the
bed so that I could not make enough
noise to alarm my neighbors.
BY one great effort I managed to
twist myself from his grasp and rolled
to the floor from which I jumped
screaming and rushed for the kitchen
door which I got opened The man
was following me, but as it was dark
I managed to reach my goal and arouse
my neighbors with my shrieks.
AS the man saw I had escaped he
closed the kitchen door after him and
left me on the rear porch while the
neigBbor called the police. 7 had some
difficulty getting the kitchen door open
and by the time again got into the
front part of the house the men had
escaped and the police were in front
of the house. [ was in such condi-
ton from freight that ! could not give
the police coherent story. / did not
stay alone in the house last night but
got a neighbor to stay with me and I
shall not stay there alone again.
Miss Kruckman is in highly ner-
vcous condition today but seems other
wise none the worse for her eneountar