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Show Girl Plies Lash Upon Her Rival Finds Her Lover With a Mnrried Woman and Attacks Her With, a Dog Whip. PHILADELPHIA. Juno 19. A longr-lashed longr-lashed dopr whip, pll6d with all tho vigor that a jealous strength could give, will probably termlnnto tho engagement ot a young Ttlverton couple. Armed with this weapon, Mlaa Eva Merrill, Mer-rill, a nlnetcon-year-old bello of tho Now Jersey town, followed her llande, George Phillips, to this city, witnessed his meeting meet-ing with a married woman and hla oubso-qucnt oubso-qucnt movements last evening. Finally, stung beyond endurance, her patlnco overleaped Its bounds, and sho plied the leather thong with vigorous Btrokea about tho head and shoulders o the woman who supplanted her in tho affections af-fections of the flcklo swain. The encounter en-counter took placo about midnight, in the entrance to Falrroount park, near Strawberry mansion "I'm Eva Merrill and I live In "Rlvcr-ton," "Rlvcr-ton," she said. "That man ls my fiance, Georgo Flillllpa, nnd tho woman witn mm ls tho wife of a Burlington man. "George and I have been engaged to bo married some tlmo. Yesterday afternoon af-ternoon I was In Rlvcrton and I saw them together. I secured my dog whip and followed fol-lowed them. "I found them without much trouble. They were sluing on a bench, and tho eight of them together was too much for me to bear, I pulled out my dog whip and walked up to them. "As I stood before them they recognized mc and started to run. I chased them and used my whip whenevor I got a chance. "I could not catch Phillips, but the woman was not able to escape me, and I gavo her a good lashing. If you had not stopped mo I'd havo given her more." The girl's earnest manner and her agitated agi-tated voice proved the truth of her statement. state-ment. Patrolman Knight Intended to take her to tho station-house at Twenty-sixth and York streets, but her evident sincerity so Impressed him that ho let hor go. |