New-York tribune., 1922-02-27
B1udsseonas Girl
In Bed as Gao
ails to Work
Dorothy Nichols Awakes
When Braid of Hair T.
Thrust Into Mouth and
Intruder Hits With Iron
Escapes Through Window
Father Rushes to Rescue
and NIiIkman Sees Assaii-
ant Running Away

Detectives Of the West i52d Street
police station were still hunting last
night for the man who early in the
morning climbed through the bedroom
window Of Miss Dorothy Nichols, cigh-
teen wears old, Of 81 Hamilton Place,
and hit her on the head with heavy
cast-iron sash weight. She is in Knick
evbocker Hospital suffering from a pos
sible fracture Of the skull.
Miss Nichols was asleep at the time.
She had been TO q dance at the home
Of Mrs Katherine HenkeI. 272 Yves.
Seventy third Street, and had arrived
home about 2 o'clock escorted by VII
liam Boyer, OF $40 Riverside Drive.
Boyer told the police that he did not
remember seeing any one lettering in
tho vicinity either when ne brought
Miss Nichols home or when he left,
which was shortly afterward
The Nichols apartment is on the
ground floor and the house is near the
corner OF 139th Street There is q
high iron railing on the sidewalk in
front of the three windows Of the
Nichols apartment which faces the
street. One can, however, easily
squeeze past stone pillar at either
side Of tho entrance, and then, not
more than orc step away. find himself
III front OF The window 10 the room
used by Miss Nichols. The window
sill q three feet from the ground. and
en- the morning IN question the win
dow Was not locked
Tried to Gag Her With Hair
Miss Nichols had been asleep for
about an hour. She had slipped out
Of her evening gown and tossed it on
4 chair. The jewels she had worn Law
on her dresser. She was awakened
suddenly by some one who had taken
one Of her bralds of thick blond hair
and was trying TO stuff it in her
mouth
She cried out for her father. Who
''as in the next room With that the
man struck her on the left side of
the head with the sash weight and she
lapsed INTO unconsciousness The man
dropped his weapon and climbed out
OF tho window which he had left opon.
Hor father, Frank J. Nichols. who
IS an official of a long distance truck.
ing company, ran to his daughter s
room. 4 draft Of cold air drew his
attention to the window, and from out
side he heard the sound as Of some
enc moving He turned on the light
and saw his daughter with her hair
across her face tossing in pain.
NJ Nichols went out. At thc from.
door he met the mlkman, Who told
him of having seen d man who seemed
tc be drunk come out OF ground
floor window The milkman said that
the man had asked what time Vt was
and that he had then run toward 14Oth
Street
physician was summoned and the
police we're notified. Detectives Robert
Duggan and Oscar Krauss found that
nothing had been stolen. The sash
weight was lying on the floor 1t was
smooth and black, without sign Of rust.
az II il had been maintained for of
fensive rather than unitarian pur-
poses.
Intruder Seen by Milkman
The milkman described the man rs
OF about five feet seven inches in
height and wearing d dark suit
MIR. Nichols said yesterday that he
believed some drunken marauder had
seen his daughter come home and had
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