THUGS ASSAULT WITH IRON PIPE
Item
- Title
- THUGS ASSAULT WITH IRON PIPE
- Source
- The Seattle Star [WA]
- Date
- 12/3/19
- page
- 2
- Identifier
- https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wa/batch_wa_alki_ver01/data/sn87093407/00200290811/1919120301/0790.pdf
- Crime
- Assault
- Subject
- break in; bludgeoned
- Gender of alleged offender
- male alleged offender (2)
- Gender of alleged victim
- male alleged victim
- Law enforcement involved
- police
- Stage of the Legal System
- crime
- Location
- In state; Seattle
- Length of story
- 236
- Description
- Knock Intruder Over Head, Then Escape - Two thugs, attempting to pick the lock of the front door of a boarding house conducted by Mrs. Laura Martin, 724 Minor ave., late Tuesday night, were frightened from the scene of their activities after they had knocked Fred Enhard, boarder, senseless with a piece of gas pipe. He had discovered them working. Mrs. Martin, who made the report to the police Wednesday morning, said that she returned home last night at 11 o'clock. Everything appeared normal until she attempted to unlock her front door. She found a piece of nail jammed in the keyhole. Upon investigation, she found the prostrate form of Enhart, a shipyard worker at Duthie's, lying just inside his door, with a large welt above his ear. Enhart, when revived, said that he had been awakened by some one working on the front porch. Enhart's door opens on the porch. He looked out of his window and saw two men. He opened the door and stepped out on the porch and was immediately felled by a blow on the head. He lost consciousness. Enhart had a pocketbook containing several dollars, in his room. It was untouched. He thinks the slugging occurred about 10 p.m. Mrs Martin reported him suffering with a severe headache Wednesday morning. He was unable to go to work. Mrs Martin was forced to break into her own rooms. The police are investigating.
