Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-18
WOMAN ASSAULTS WIFE
OF LIEUT.. SMILEY
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"Come in" she said, Hospitality. Its
so cold"
The visitor was welcomed into the warm
| house
"No, / don't believe I'll take off my
| things" she said. In reply to =. query.
| She even retained the black fur mum,
| holding 1t in her lap. but threw her neck
piece over the back of her chair. Every
movement. every word she said, indicated
| the highest refinement.
ACCEPTED cup OF TEA.
Mrs. Smiley offered the visitor cup of
| tea and the latter accepted.
| with a cracker. If YOU please she
| smiled. She lifted her veil to the tip of
her nose-no further. Mrs, Smiley saw a
| pair of glasses CLEAN behind the veil.
| 1T have known your husband long
| time" the woman told Mrs. Smiley over
the teacup, "He is a splendid man.
knew him long before he was transferred
to his present post
While the women were chatting in
the living room the telephone bell rang,
1t was Lieutenant Smiley calling his wife
from the station house so that another
old friend of the family, man, might
say n few words to her
"Oh isn't this a coincidence" exclaimed
Mrs. Smiley with the receiver to her
ear. And a good friend of yours is
here at this moment"
Yes" continued Mrs. Smiley. NO
don't know her name. The woman YOU
met today. from Bethlehem. and told to
come TO see me-"
"What?" Mrs. Smiley was puzzled.
for her hsuband's voice suddenly stern
and suspicious. had said, Hold that
woman"
Mrs. Smiley looked at her visitor. The
woman in black had arisen. The veil
again covered her features completely.
hand snatched a small holster from her
muff and with jerk out came pearl
handled revolver
Drop that phone!" she said in low
tone.
And a cleaning revolver barrel was
pointing at Mrs. Smiley's head. Fright
eued. she let the receiver drop. But she
was not quick enough to satisfy the in
truder. Like a tigress she sprang at her
hostess knocked her down and standing
astride her PROSTATE form, held the re-
volver to her head,
"Squeal an I'll plug ye!" she snarled.
The drawing-room voice had vanished.
and the woman lapsed into the argot of
the Tenderloin.
I'm the meantime Lieutenant Smiley.
aroused by the crash, was yainly jerk
ing the receiver hook up and down. Civ
6lst and Thompson streets station for a
patrol wagon, and another frantic mes
sage TO a neighbor. August Harris, of
1886 North cd street, employed in the
Bureau of Water
go help my wifeg he shouted into the
telephone. land capture that woman"
In the meantime, In the Smiley home
the woman i'm black was backing away
from Mrs. Smiley, who had arisen, still
looking down the ugly little throat of
the revolver
And then. innocence personihed, 2-year-
old Warren Smiley awakened from his
sleep upstairs, came toddling down the
stairs. The woman's eyes fell on him
as he stood on the landing.
IF you squeal I'll shoot the kid" she
said, with a gleam in her eye. She re-
allied that Mrs. Smiley, however unafraid
for herself would not sacrifice her baby
for a police capture-no, not for thou
sand captures. Her revolver followed the
baby's course down the steps and over
20 the telephone, where he gravely put
the receiver back on the hook as he had
been taught TO do.
Immediately the telephone bell began
ringing furiously. 1t was the frantic
husband calling,
Remember, IN surely plug that kid
if you squeal." reiterated the woman,
backing toward the front door. Mrs
Smiley stood still. horrihed. The in.
truder backed through the vestibule dool
and closed 1t with care.
Mrs. Smiley. clasping her baby to her
breast in thankfulness. saw the door
open again and tho revolver protruded |
through the crack. The woman's skirt |
had caught.
Remember she yelled. And the door |
closed again.
A few seconds later Harris, breathIess
and half-eIothed, and the detail OF |
policemen clattering up in a van, found |
Mrs. Smiley at the phone. telling her |
husband that everything was "all right"
No trace OF the woman was to be found |
No one else had seen her.