Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-06
GIRL WAR WORKER
IS NEGRO'S VICTIM
Miss Mary Saunders Is Left
for Dead in Path Near
Chevy Chase Circle.
FOURTH RECENT ASSAULT

FUUKIH KECENI ASSAULT
Attacked by a colored man as she
was making her way home over
wood path between Chevy Chase Cir
Gle and Somerset, Md, Miss Mary
Saunders. a war worker. was choked,
beaten, assaulted and left for dead
yesterday afternoon, in the fourth at
tack by a colored man On a woman
during the last three weeks.
Spirit is running high in the vi
cinity. Threats of forgetting the
law" if the man is caught are numer-
Gus.
Colored Man Confronts Her.
Miss Saunders was on her way to
the home of Capt. s. w. Cushing at
31S Dorset avenue. Somerset, where
she rooms. and had just crossed a
footbridge shortly after $3.50 o'clock,
when she was suddenly confronted by
a colored man. eighteen or nineteen
years old, wearing a gray suit and
beat the woman into a state of semi
consciousness. dragged her fifty feet
into the woods and assaulted her, ac-
cording to the police.
He left her for dead, it is thought,
but Miss Saunders recovered con-
seriousness and dragged herself three
quarters of mile to the home of Capt
Gushing. where first aid treatment was
administered. DR.. Anthony NJ. Ray of
Tenleytown was summoned to treat
her and later Capt. Gushing. with Mrs
Gushing and a neighbor. brought the
sity Hospital in his automobile.
Tells Story to Detectives.
Lying in critical condition in
Georgetown Hospital last night, Miss
Saunders told the story of the as
sault to headquarters detectives II
got off a street car at Chevy Chase
Circle at 800 yesterday afternoon
she said. land started through the
foot bridge over small stream, be-
ing about quarter of a mile in Mary
land when the colored man jumped
from a clump of bushes. He had a
large stone in his hand, with which
he beat me over the head. Then he
choked me. At this stage 1 must have
tainted away, recovering some time
later"
D. c. Police Pledge Assistance.
Maj. Pullman and Inspector Grant
have assured Maryland authorities
that all possible assistance will be
rendered by the local force. Residents
of the vicinity are indignant over the
lack of protection furnished by
Montgomery county. Compliments,
however. have been bestowed upon the
work of Lieut.. Giles at Tenleytown
substation.
Every policeman that can be spared
is securing the vicinity in the man
hunt. A force under Deputy Sheriff
Peake of Bethesda. Md, beat the
bushes in the vicinity without re-
suit
Find Motor Cycle Track.
One of the most tangible clues, DO
lice believe, is the imprint of a mo-
tor cycle track upon the path This
gives rise to the theory that the man
had taken a motor cycle to the scene,
hid it, and escaped upon it after the
assault.
Detectives Embry and Wilson held
one colored motor cyclist for investi-
CATION in connection with the affair,
Int later released him.
Recently Arrived From England.
Miss Saunders has been in this
country from England only a few
months She was employed in the in
telligence service of one of the de-
as a clerk.
The path which she took is one |
used by many young ladies in the |
vicinity Following the occurrence |
Yesterday. however, travel on this |
nath will probably be abandoned by |
women, except in cases of absolute |
necessity.
May Be One Assailant.
Police are certain that three recent |
assaults on women can be traced to |
the man who attacked Mary Saunders |
last night Descriptions given by the |
three former victims tally. All of |
the assaults were committed in the |
radius of a mile and a half.
THAT of Mrs Bessie Gleason of Il |
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