Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19
ALL POLICE SEEK
BEATER OF WOMAN
Victim Attacked Is In Hos
pital-ReWards TotaIing
$500 Are in Sight.

With every member OF the. Metro
politan Police Department under sps-
cial orders TO hunt for the assailant
OF Mrs. Daisy yelling. 81 years old,
of 1871 p street southeast. whose head
was crushed by blows from q blunt
instrument when she was assaulted
and robbed In the Capitol grounds
last night the way was paved today
to pay 81 500 for any information
leading TO the apprehension OF the
man who attacked her.
In a broadcast to the police force,
Supt. Hesse called for a City-wids
search and announced a $500 reward
for the attaCker. This was followed
shortly by the adoption in the Sem
ate OF an amendment 10 the District
appropriation bill providing $1,000
more. The amendment was offered by
senator Blease. Democrat, of South
Carolina. and was accepted without
debate.
In Serious State.
Mrs. yelling IL in a serious con-
dition in Casualty Hospital.
The sole support OF her mother and
9-year-old son. she was on her way
home from the Driscoll Hotel. where
she is employed as a telephone oper-
atOr, when attacked. about Il 80
o'clock. near Congressional Library.
Three hours later Policeman Zeno
X. Wright of tho ninth precinct was
shot in a duel with a burglar answer
ing the general description Of Mrs.
WellinG's asssilant, whom she de
scribed "a a negro, when the prisoner
broke from him at a call box at Ten.
nessSe avenue and 3 streets north
east and escaped. Wright believes
he wounded the man az he was at.
tempting to force entrance into q
grocery store at r street and Twelfth
place northeast. One of the negro's
bullets struck Wright in the left arm
below the shoulder.
Blood TRANSMISSION Planned.
Doctors at Casualty planned today
a blood TRANSMISSION in an effort TO
save the life of Mrs. yelling. who.
despite the seriousness of her wounds.
has retained consciousness sufficiently
to enable her to describe tn police her
assailant and the circumstances Of
the attack.
Leaving her place of employment
shortly after II o'clock, Mrs. Yelling
started homeward through the Capitol
planned She was on the walk oppo-
site Congressional Library and had
stopped to regain her handkerchief
which had fallen when the negro sud-
denly appeared and started smuggling
her with a club or iron bar. Mrs.
Yelling remembered nothing further
until she emerged from a faint and
was able to crawl short distance to
point near the coping diagonaly
across from the fountain In front Of
Congressional Library.
Samuel Wertlieb. 800 Fourteenth
street southeast. motoring along Sec
ond street, saw Mrs. yelling and went
in search OF a policeman. He found
Policeman Bryan Fl. White Of the
fifth precinct at Pennsylvania avenue
and Fourth street southeast.
Scene Searched for Clue.
They put Mrs. yelling in Wertleb's
car and took her to Casualty, where
surgeons expressed surprise that she
had survived the assault.
A search for a possible clue was
made at the scene of the attack and
resulted in the finding of Mrs. Wei
ling's pocketbook, emptied of its con-
tents. $40 or SIS.
Mrs. yelling is divorced from Car
ter yelling. who now lives I'm ksyser,
w. Va, police were told. She makes
her home with her mother, Mrs. Sarah
Lamb. and the boy.
The shooting of Policeman Wright
occurred about O'Clock this morning
the sound of gunfire arouslng the
entire neighbOrhOod.
Wright said he arrested the negro
as he was attempting to break into
the grocery store. and had trouble get
ting him TO the call box. As he stop
ped at the box, the man drew a pistol
and fired.
The negro Immediately broke and
ran, with Wright. behind him, firing.
He escaped in the darkness.
Wright reported the occurrence at
the ninth precinct and then went TO
Casualty for treatment.
Mrs. Welhngetold police her assail-
ant was light-skinned. poorly dressed
and about 80 years old. and Wright
said this would answer TO the general
makeup of his prisoner.