The New York herald., 1921-09-12
GIRL WIFE STABBED
7 Times BY HUSBAND
End of Battle i'm Flat Seen
by Crowd as Woman
Tries to Flee.
ATTACKED IN JEALOUSY
She Had Gone to His Home
to Arrange Divorce, She
Tells Police.
GOES ABOUT THOUGH ILL
Varton Donigan Escapes Over
Roof as Men Seek to Save
His Victim.
GOES ABOUT THOUGH ILL

hdH ooZen men standing at
Thirty-seventh street and Ninth ave-
nue. late yesterday heard the crash of
breaking wood and glass. They saw
Mrs. Varton Donigan, wounded half
dozen times, jump through the win
dow OF her husbands apartment on the
third floor of $40 West Thirty-seventh
street to the fire escape.
She screamed for help, but before
the men could make a move a man
with a long knife in his hand followed
through the window. He slashed at
the woman, the knife cutting her fore
arm and missing her heart only be-
cause she shrank back against the
fire escape railing.
lie raised the knife for another blow.
but man from the street yelled at
him and he paused He stared for
an instant at crowd which by this
time had begun to move toward the
house, then stuck the knife in his
pocket ard ran up the fire escape,
vanishing over the edge of the roof.
Mrs. Donigan staggered back into the
apartment and fell unconscious There
she was found by several men who made
their way up the stairs and forced the
door. They summoned DIR. Lane. who
took the woman to the French Hospital
There she was revived, and found to
have been stabbed in the scalp, the neck,
both hands. both forearms and the
stomach. She also had been beaten
about the head and body.
Goes Home Though Wounded.
Surgeons told the woman her wounds
were severe, but after they had been
dressed she insisted on going to her
home at 104 Essex street, where she had
been living with her mother and infant
child under her maiden name of Jennie
Hershkowitz because she had been sepa-
rated from her husband.
Mrs Donigan went last night to the
West Thirtieth street police station IN =
taxicab and told the police what had
happened. Her husband. she said. was
an Armenian and carpenter, to whoa
she was married on December 3, 1920,
in City Hall. She had met him in
restaurant in GA Eighth avenue. where
she has worked for several years as a
waitress. She said she Is now eighteen.
Mrs. Donigan asserted she left ncr
husband two days after the marriage
because of his jealousy and i'll treat
ment. Since then he had been following
her. threatening her and trying to Set
her to return to him. She told hin re-
Gently however. that she was going to
divorce him. and finally he agreed to
this step but asked her to go to his
apartment to talk. She consented.
Windows and Doors Locked.
AS soon as she entered the place. che
said. Donigan closed and locked all of
the doors and windows. Then, shs said.
he went to a bed and drew knife from
beneath the mattress He said:
TN my country we don't hit women
with our fists We use knives on them"
He threw her on the bed and the first
slash he made cut her in the stomach.
But she broke away from him AMI rla.
He caught her, and they fought all over
the apartment. although he cut and
slashed at her with the knife and beat
her with his fist. Finally. almost ex-
hausted and with half dozen wounds
she managed to reach the front window
and hurled her body against 1t. The
sash and the glass broke and she STUN
bled to the fire escape, where she cried
for help. She said her husband followed
her and escaped over the roof
Detectives are searching for Donlgan.