Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-29
THIRD MYSTERIOUS
ATTACK ON GIRL IS
PROBED BY POLICE
Mildred Jackson, II, in Near
Collapse After Strange
Knife Assault.
TWO WARNING NOTES
ARE SHOWN BY VICTIM
Weapon Found Beside Young
Woman in Faint Had Been Taken
From Grandmother's Kitchen.

Mildred jackson. 17-year-old secre-
tarial school student, was in a state OF
ear-collapse In her home at 37ol Mas
sachusetts avenue today. following what
abe described as mysterious attack by
q middle LACED man armed with q
butcher knife.
The assault, which occurred last
night was the third made on the girl
by the same man since last Spring, she
told fourteenth precinct police. 1t was
preceded by two notes OF warning.
Manufactured In pencil on the backs OF
envelopes, she declared.
Miss jackson, according to the story
she told ofiicers investigating the case
was alone in her apartment on the sixth
floor Of the Massachusetts, avenue build
ing when some one tapped on the door
Threw Knife at Her.
Thinking It was her grandmother,
Mrs. Mildred Smith, with whom she
lives, the girl opened the door, she re-
lated, and found a stockily built man
between 30 and so years old. He wore
q brown suit and although his cap was
pulled down over his eyes. she reccg-
nized him as the man who had pre-
viously annoyed her. He was badly in
need OF q shave, she added.
Noticing q butcher knife claSped in
the mans right hand, Miss jackson
continued. she instinctively ducked. AS
she did so, she asserted, the man threw
the knife AT. her. She screamed, then
tainted.
Mrs Smith, who was In another part
of the building, heard her grand
daughters cries and ran TO the apart
ment. She found the girl lying In the
doorway, the butcher knife nearby.
The knife, according to Mrs. Smith,
had been taken from her kitchen.
Police advanced the theory the man
Sto'h into the apartment when Miss
en- incineratcr elsewhere on the same
floor.
First Note Monday.
The FIST OF the threatening notes
was received Monday. Employees of
the apartment house said they saw
Miss Jackson 60 to her mail box on
the first floor of the building. remove
something and faint. Crumpied in
her hand. they declared, was the fol-
lowing message:
Beware, we are after you. A
Friend"
The second note. found In the mail
box yesterday, SAID.
THE dicks cannot save you II I get
my hands on YOU" 1t was unsigned.
The printing in both notes was
rather crudeiy done, apartment house
employees said. and looked like the
work of a child. No one except Miss
jackson took them very seriously until
the girl was found unconscious In the
doorway of her apartment last night.
Miss jackson, who has been living
Mt the Massachusetts, avenue address
only a short time, said the first attack
occurred while she was undressing tor
bed in her previous home in the 27OO
block OF Woodley road.
Aceosted Twice Before.
The man grasped her wrist, she said.
but she brcke loose and ran downstairs
for helm. Police, called by other occu-
pants Of the apartment house, were
unable to find any trace or her asSan-
ant, however.
Three weeks later, Miss Jackson said,
the man accosted her on the street but
she ned. running all the way home.
Until last night, she declared, she hao
not seen the man since last Spring.
Miss jackson was graduated from
Western High School, last June and mas
since been attending the washington
School for Secretaries. Her mother =
in Cleveland.
Both the girl and her grandmother
were in a highly nervous condition to-
day and denied themselves TO all
callers. even refusing 70 answer their
telephone.