Assaulted By A Tramp

ASSAULTED BY A TRAMP

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BUT SHE USED A PISTOL ON HIM

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And He Fell twice But Succeeded in Disappearing and Left No Trace Behind Him.

Northville, Mich., July 16.- Mrs. Lester Lyke, who was assaulted by a tramp Saturday afternoon, at her home near the Washtenaw county line, recovered sufficiently to give a lucid explanation of the affair today. She says a tramp called about 2 o'clock and demanded something to eat. She offered to get it where upon the tramp insisted on entering the house, and upon refusal to let him come in he hauled off and deliberately knocked her down. She fell inside the house and as she dropped, her little girl, who was alone with her at the time, grabbed a revolver from a shelf and handed it to her mother. At this the tramp started across the garden back of the house towards the woods. Mrs. Lyke shot twice and thinks the bullets must have taken some effect as the tramp fell at each shot but finally reached the woods and disappeared. Neighbors were quickly aroused and while they were able to track him in the damp ground to the woods, their search further is as yet in vain. It is thought he is still in hiding there or in the berry bushes adjoining. The Lykes live about four miles west of the village near the Washtenaw county line. Mrs, Lyke describes her assaulter as a large, thick-set fellow, wearing brown clothes and had sandy whiskers. This is not Mrs. Lyke's first use of firearms. She is a nervy woman and but a short time ago saved her chicken-coop from being robbed by shooting at a couple of men in the act of entering it.