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been forced in her mouth and tied
fast with a strip OF Turkish towel
ing, When he removed the gag,
Lantz said. he found that his wife
had been struck over the head and
had received a severe cut above
the nose. Another abrasion was
found at the back of her head he
said.
I.antz SUNNI ned Frank J.
O'Eeiily. one of the defendants In
the contempt case and q Burns OPP
erative, and some other agents who
are living at the hotel. When they
arrived they got hold Of Assistant
Manager Blackstone, Of the Ham.
ilton and the house physician.
Burns And Son Call
Later William J. Burns and his
son. Sherman, were called.
After the morning roll call at
headquarters this morning, Detec-
tives Curtis Trammel and Dick
Mansfield turned in a report on the
evenings episode. which placed the
time Of the alleged assault at $40
p. M, when Room sos was entered
by means of duplicate key by a
white man who attacked her and
choked and gagged her"
The report showed that House
Physician e. l.. Mason, responded
and rendered treatment for shock
condition not serious"
Mr.. and Mrs. Lantz spent most
OF the day at the courthouse, yes
terday, Lantz said. and returned
to the Hamilton about o'clock.
They went right to bed, he added,
and both got up about dinner time,
the wife to take a bath and he
to get dressed for dinner. Mrs.
Lantz said she was not hungry and
asked her husband to dine alone.
She told him to lock the door and
would not have to disturb herself
when he returned to let him in.
Shortly before Z o'clock. according
to Mrs. Lantz, she heard a key
turn in the door, and thought it
was her husband. Only a dim light
was in the room. and she half
turned on her pillow. AS she did
so, a figure doomed over the bed,
and she received blow on her
head. She remembered a mans hand
being put over her mouth and then
lapsed into oblivion. She said she
got a good look at the mans face
before she was struck, and would
be able to identify him.
LantZ would not permit reporters
to see the wife this morning, declar-
ing that her condition was such that
the doctor had ordered her not to
be disturbed. A nurse was with
her in room sos, which had been as
signed to the couple when they reg
istered on January %. He said
that on last Tuesday, about the
same time that last nights assault
occurred, they returned to their
room to find that it had been ran
sacked, but found nothing had been
stolen.
Knew McMullin
Lantz said he Is chief traffic Of
ficer for the town of Millbourne, a
suburb of Philadelphia, and was at
one time employed by the Pennsyl-
vania state Highway Patrol. 1t
was during this period that he first
knew McMullin, who as William V.
Long, was employed by them for
the Sinclair operation here. Nc.
Mullin later turned on his fellow
Burns operatives and became a Gov
eminent witness before the Grand |
Jury.
The affidavits, copies of which |
were disturbed during last nights
raid, Lantz said, concerned his |
knowledge Of McMullin. The letter
that was missing, he said. was writ
.en to him by his wife, from Hunt
ngdon, Pa. near Altoona, the home
IT her father. She wrote about be-
ng under subpoena, and said she
thought he would be too.
She also told him circumstances
her having seen Nc
dullin in another part of the State
IN one occasion,
Lantz told reporters that McMul-
in had worked for him at Mill