San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-27
NEGRO TTACKS.
WHITE WOMAN.
AND ESCAPES.
Waitress Jumps From
Automobile and Is Rem
dered Unconscious.
DRAGGED INTO BRUSH
Voluntarily Enters Car
When Negro Offers to
Take Her to Work.
DRAGGED INTO BRUSH

Police are making city-wide
search for black. powerful-lookins
negro. reported TO have made an at
tack upon Miss Hattie Harbers, 80,
22S Burnet street, at dawn Thursday.
Lurcd into an automobile. driven by
negro, on the preteXt that he would
drive her to the Southern Pacific de-
pot lunch room. Miss Harbers leaped
from the speeding car as i: whirlcd
across the intersection of East Hous-
ton and North Cherry streets.
The jump was made when the
young woman discovered she had been
trapped. The fall caused her head TO
strike the pavement. inflicting long.
jagged scalp wound and rendered her
sumi-conscious.
The black. the woman told plain
clothes men. sto. yed his car, ran back
to her as she yainly struggled TO rise
and dragged her into "a mesquite
thickct oil a vacant loi. She gave one
scream, she said and then tainted.
The first recollection, Miss Har-
bers told officers, she had after faint
ing. was when She realized she was
staggering ,along East Houston street
just beyond the thickct.
Saw Negro Fleeing.
Stella Henry. nesress, residing near
'ty, attracted by the scream of WON
an, aroused her brother. Jake Civ
ems. The latter told police he saw
the woman, bleeding from wound III
her head, staggering across the vacant
tract of mesquite and weeds. ne
gro, whom he said was in his shirt
sleeves, was fleeing in the opposite
direction.
CITY Detectives Joe Ruhnkc aud
Bill Carver and Tom Stacy. the lat
ter chief $. L. railway agent, are cou-
Quoting the investigation. OfIicc:S
found Miss Harbcrs still in a dazei
condition when they reached the
scene. Blood was flowing freely from
the decorations in her head. Her back
was bruised aud her clothing torn.
Dirt stains indicated .lainly the won,
an had been dragged across the ground
ON her back.
40 Evidence Of Assault.
She was rushed TO the Robert u.
Green Memorial Hospital for examI-
ration and treatment. Physicians
doubted the woman had been assault
ed by the black aSasilant after hav-
ing been rendered unconscious ana
dragged into the thickct. Evidence
that the woman had been assaulted
physicians advised detectives, was
lacking.
Miss Harbers. according 10 Agent
Stacy. has for three years been EN-
ploycd at tie depot lunch room as =
waitress. was quiet and unasSuminG
and had never been involved in any.
difficulty. She was given strictly 10
her business and since her residence
in San Antonio, he said, had pur-
chased an apartment house on Burnet
street.
Because of her bewildered mind,
Miss Harbcrs was for time unable
to give the officers Il coherent state
ment concerning the ATTACK. She later.
after treatment at the hospital. said
that, aS was customary, she left home
Just before dawn TO open the luneH
room, She was walking along Chest
nut street, she said. when the negro
occupying the automobile oVertoo"
her.
Voluntarily Entered Car.
When he announced he was going
to the depot and that he would take
her TO her work, Miss Harbers sala
she entered the rear seat.
1t was when the negro, after speed'
ing up the car. turned east on Hous-
ton street instead of con,inuiu;
straight ahead that Miss HarberS sal'i
she became apprehensive. She sald
she demanded he stop the ear that
she might get out. He ignored her:
she said. only increasing the spce1
of the car. She then pleaded with
him. she told officers. TO release herr'
She Offered him what money she had
she said. this amounting TO 81. TO
stop the car. When she realized sue
was prisoner, she said, she leaped
from the car