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A Vicious Assault

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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
March
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

A VICIOUS ASSAULT.

A LADY ATTACKED WHILE CROSSING TO THE NORTHSIDE

The Scoundrel is Frightened Away by a Passing Carriage But Succeeds in Getting Away.

Saturday evening about 9:45 o'clock, as Mrs. William Mason, of the Northside, was returning home with a parcel of groceries, she was approached from behind by a man while near the farther end of the bridge, who threw a coat over her head, pressed his hands over her eyes and jerked her to the ground. She made a desperate resistance and screamed loudly. Fortunately for her Millard Clements, of Dixboro was passing that way in a carriage just at the time and frightened the villain away before he had accomplished his purpose. Patrolman O'Mara was passing down his State st. beat, but did not hear her screams. The scoundrel ran down by the old Henning property onto the Michigan Central tracks and made his escape in the darkness. Mrs. Mason while struggling caught hold of the man's hat and held on with such a grip that he was obliged to leave it when he ran away. The hat had a name and address in it, but on investigating at the place named it was found that the hat had been stolen from its owner, along with a coat, last fall. The young man to whom the hat belonged has been in Toledo for sometime. The officers searched the houses below the bridge but found no clues. Mrs. Mason was unable to tell whether her assailant was white or black.