Show BLACK BRUTE IS I CAUGHT IN ACT OF CHOKING WOMAN Chased by Crowd Fiend Jumps Into River l DROWNED WHILE ESCAPING f Black Fiend Torturod W man for Throb Hours Persisted in Persecution to Make Victim Vic-tim Give Him Money in Her 1Iouse 1 Kansas City Mo Sept fAn unknown un-known negro caught in the act or Strangling Mrs Margaret Gerahn a white woman in her home at Armour dale ICan a suburb this afternoon escaped to the Kansas river cvliere he drowned himself rather than run the chances of being1 lynched a crowd having hav-ing chased him to tile bank of the stream The woman was seriously hurt but will recover SURPRISED AT HER WORK Mrs Gerahn Is a widow 45 years old Her husband who was a packinghouse employee and her son were downed In the great June Hood and she lived alone The negro agml 20 called at the house about noon and entering stealthily stealth-ily locked himself In Ire surprised Mrs Gerahn at her work and demanded her money When she insisted that there was none about the house the negro threatened lo kill 1 her and seizing seiz-ing her by the throat bejran choking her RENDERED UNCONSCIOUS She became unconscious and he loclced < her In a closet When she revived re-vived he dragged her from the closet and upon her persistent refusal to tell him where she kept I her money the negro repeatedly choked her NeighborIng Neigh-borIng women broke into tho house after Mrs Gerahn had been in thf power of the negro for three hours and found him standing over the prostrate woman sinking his lingers into her throat RUN TO THE RIVER The negro hurried from the house and run to the Kansas river two blocks distant dis-tant where he hired a boat and ordered the owner to row quickly to the ivii5 sourl shore When the boat had reached midstream a crowd of excited men and boys had gathered at the bank and shouted to the owner of the boat to return to shore NEGRO 1 COMMITS SUICIDE lie started to do so when the negro stood up In the boat and with the remark re-mark I have lived too long to die at the end of a rope dived into the water He diowned before the spot could be reached and his body disappeared |