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found her wound was rot fatal, and
doctors expect her recovery.
Miss Margaret Geagau explained
that there is a Yale lock on the front
door, but that few days ago piece
of weather-strfpping was n allied to the
sill of the door, which makes it diff
cult to shut the door tight. She be-
lieTes that some one entering last
night failed to shut the door tight
enough to snap the lock.
While police were responding to the
call from the Geagan home, an in
truder, assumed to be the same man.
entered the front door of the home of
Mrs. Selma Preinkert, 1911 l. street.
and mounted the stairs to the room
of Miss Fowler.
Attack on Miss Fowler.
Miss Fowler. who is n war work er
from Pennsylvania. employed in the
big munitions building at the foot of
18th street. is slightly deaf and did
not hear the man entering. She was
aroused by what she believes was a
small fiashlight, bit the police are of
the opinion that this also was d
match.
+ The man grabbed Miss Fowler at the
throat, but she had pulled the covers
up to her face, which kept his nails
from making an impression; Her
screams frightened him and he fed
the way he entered. Miss Fowler did
not See a revolver
The fact that there was an attrac-
tive supply of silver-ware and a pock-
erbook containing cash in the dining
room on the street fioor convinced the
police that robbery was not the man S
motive. Mrs. Preink.ert says it was
about o'clock when he entered her
home.
Shoots Miss Hood.
1t was about 4:sO o'clock. according
to occupants of the board ing house of
Miss Nellie 0'Keefe. 1871 L street.
when they were reused by a rapid sue
cession of pistol shots and found Miss
Hood lying wounded near the window
of her room, which is in the rear on
the first floor.
physician in the neighbOrhood and
doctors from Emergency Hospital
would not permit the girl to talk much
because of her condition. From her
utterances before going to the hos
entered her room through Ihe rear
window, dragged her from the. bed and
shot her while struggling with her
The man is supposed to hare fired
several shots in the yard of the
O'Keefe house. but Miss Hood was
struck only once.
Drs. Mankin and SchoenfeEd, who
operated on her, found chat the bull
let had made seven perforat:ions in
her intestines. They hold out little
hope for recovery. Miss Hood Is a ma
tive OF Brownsville. Tenn. and is also
ice. She has been in Washington
about year Friends sent a wire to
her brother at Brownsville this morn
ing.
Find Egg Carton Outside.
A two-dozen pasteboaxd egg carton
containing seventeen eggs was found
in rear of 1889 L street, adjoining
morning. It was suggested that the
carton may have been dropped by
the unidentified assaiIant, but de-
tectives regarded such thing as be-
ing improbable, because he would
have to have carried the eggs from
at least one other house in which an
assault was committed. An inscrip-
tion on the carton suggested il came
from southern Maryland.
Miss Fowler was at work today in
the War Department despite her
experience of the night, but she de-
clined to talk.
One theory Of the police as to why
the revolver was not used on Miss
Fowler is that he visited her house
last and had exhausted his ammuni-
tion at Miss Hoods room. The three
houses are within five or six squares
of each other. and, the police say,
occupants might easily be mistaken
in the exact time of the respective
attacks.
Arrest Two in Baltimore.
BALTIMORE. January 24.-Benjamin
F. Sprinkler, thirty-two years Old, 851
North Eutaw street. and Wade
Wheeler. colored, twenty-one years
old. who said he lives in Charlotte.
N. c.. were arrested this morning at
Union station as they were leaving a
train which had just arrived from
Washington. They were arrested on
description furnished Marshal Carter
by the Washington officials in con-
nection with the attack on three
women in that city. They denied any
knowledge of the crimes.