The sun., 1919-06-23
BROOKLYN WOMAN
BEATEN AND ROBBED
Miss Dorothy Davenport Fol-
lowed From Hotel by Two
Young Men.
THEY GET $1,000 IN GEMS
Three Married Men, Friends of
Victim, Flee When They
T. See Her Attacked.

A man who was walking In Avenue y
In Brooklyn yesterday morning about >
o'clock stumbled over the body OF q
woman In the roadway Just q few feet
from the corner of Avenue u and Flat
bush avenue. He shook her. but she
was unconscious, and bending the man
saw that her lip had been split her eyes
blackened and her face beaten almost to
q pulp. He called a policeman. ana the
woman was sent to Kings County Hos
pitai, where later she was identified as
Miss Dorothy Davenport. IS years old,
daughter OF r. c. Davenport real
estate broker Of sts Winthrop street.
BROOKLYN. 80
Yesterday morning about o'clock
Mas Davenport became conscious and a
few hours later she was taken to her
home. There she told Detectives John
son, Callan and Dreamer. who were sent
to the Davenport home from Brooklyn
Police Headquarters. that she had been
attacked by three young men while on
her way home from the Bayview Hotel
into Inconsistencies and then robbed
her OF jewelry valued at $1,000.
Miss Davenport said that early Satur-
day evening she went to the hotel with
two women friends. both Of whom are
married. They had dinner on the hotel
porch. and while they were eating three
men, married and neighbors of the Dav-
exports and the other women. came up
and Joined them. After that they
danced While they were inside. Miss
Davenport said. three young men whom
no one In the party knew, came up.
spoke to tho three married men and
Joined the group at their table without
Introducing themselves or being intro
dueed by anybody. Miss Davenport said
she danced with one OF the young men.
About II o'clock Miss Davenport and
the two other women decided to go
home. One Of the young men offered
to escort her. but she refused. and
the three women left with their three
married neighbors But as soon NJ they
left the hotel the three young men
followed them and ut Flatbush avenue
and Avenue A they attacked the three
men with Miss Davenport and the other
women. Miss Davenport told the police
that she saw the three men with her
trying TO fight Off the strangers and
then some one hit her, aud she remem-
bered nothing moro until she regained
consciousness In the hospital. with her
jewelry gone.
Tho detectives obtained from Miss
Davenport the names Of the three mar
ried men and the two married women.
Their stories coincided With that told
by the injured girl, except that they
said they ran when they were attacked
and left Miss Davenport alone with the
three men. Looking back. they said,
they could see the strangers oeating tia
girl, but they, ran on and got home in
Later In the afternoon the detectives
arrested Joseph Mulqueen of 1918
Rogers avenue. Brooklyn, who admitted
that he was one Of the three men who
had Joined Miss pavenport's party at
the hotel. He also said he followed the
girl with the other two men, but said
that when he found that his companions
wanted to attack the party he tried to
get away, but was beaten by the other
two men and forced to Join them. He
said he saw the other two attack the
six people In Miss Davenport's Eroup,
but that he had no hand in II. Null
queen told the police that he had only
met the other two men Saturday night
at the hotel and that he did not know
their names.
Besides the jewelry which was stolen
Miss Davenport at the time she was
attacked wore n lavalliere which was
valuea at $500. This the detectives
found IN the roadway near the corne,
where We girl was found.