The New York herald., 1921-10-15
GIRL shot 4 Times
ESCAPING FROM CAR
Negro Suspect Held i'm Case of
Marta Lyon, College Student
at Baltimore.
SHE FAILS TO IDENTIFY
But He Bears Marks Said to
Have Been Inflicted in
Fighting Him Off.
SHE FAILS TO IDENTIFY

Special Despatch to THE New YORK HEsALp.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 14.--Samuel Smith
negro chauffeur employed by William
j. Flannery OF Catonsvillc, was ar
rested this afternoon and is being
questioned tonight concerning the at
tack yesterday on Miss Marta Lyon OF
Glen Ridge, N. j.. student at Goucher
College, by a negro who invited her to
ride In the automobile he was driving
] as she stood waiting for a trolley car.
Z Miss Lyon was shot four times while
she was trying to escape from him and
is in the Maryland General Hospital
One bullet struck her in the mouth
one in the head, one in the neck and
the fourth in her left arm. The at
tack was made in a quarry field at a
lonely point on Glen Spring avenue
Miss Lyon will recover.
Smith was arrested to-day after Miss
Lyon had described the man who at
tackled her and said she had scratched
and that marks Of the encounter ought
to be clear on the varnish of the auto
mobile She described the car and de-
scribed the man closely, but when
Smith was brought before her she said
she was not certain she had seen him
before, or that II she had the difference
in the clothing he wore on the two
different occasions had made 1t iinpos-
s!ble for her to identify him.
According to the young woman's story
she had accented negro's offer to give
her lift His car proceeded about 800
yards south OF Old Court road. turned
into an almost abandoned road and
stopped. Here the negro dragged Miss
Lyon from the car, and when ii became
apparent that he could not subdue her
he shot her three times. She had broken
from him and had started to run. Then she
fell. thinking to make the negro believe
she was dead. He fred at her once more,
then entered his car and rushed away.
His haste in passing quarry attracted
attention to himself and ca:.
Mics Lyon. when she was sure her as
sailant had departed arose and struggled
back a;ong the road. calling for help.
She attracted the attention OF men work
ing in the fields, who had observed the
dutOIloDile anu itS passengers lew
minutes earlier. They telephoned to the
police.
1t was her description of the car
which led the police to the Flannery
nome In Catonsville. They found Smith
washing his employers car In the ga
rage and arrested him after they had
questioned him. as to where he was
at the time Miss Lyon was attacked
and he had given unsatisfactory ans
wers. There were scratches on his
forearms and on his face. He explained
them by saying he had stumbled into
a barbed wire fence.
Wisps OF human hair were found
about one of the buttons OF coat hang
ing near Smith. Clinging to the coat
also were burrs. The police accused
Smith Of having got them on the Goa.
In the field where Miss Lyon was at
tackled. When the coat was shown to
Miss Lyon, she could not recognize It..
Smiths employer puts entire conf
6ence In him. He informed the authori-
ties tonight that as soon as he heard
that a negro chauffeur was. being
sought, he questioned Smith In great
detail and became convinced he was
innocent.