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Show ATTEMPT TO COMMIT A DASTARDLY CRIME WAS MADE UPON MRS. SCHEID Was Mrs. Mary Scheld. 648 South Eighth West street, who was beaten insensible in-sensible by a man, in her home at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon a victim of the same brute who assaulted Mrs. Gustav Schwan in her home in Murray a few weeks ago? That the man who confronted Mrs. Scheld, as she was at work In her kitchen Friday afternoon, and demanded de-manded her money, made an attempt to commit a more fiendish crime than robbery, is a fact that has developed as the investigation of the case continues. con-tinues. Mrs. Scheld was seen at her home Monday by a Telegram man. and to him 6he told in brief, the story of her fight with the brute. Mrs. Scheld. who Is in delicate health, was loth to speak of her harrowing experience. ex-perience. Overcoming her reticence, Mrs. Scheld said. "I was at home, and had been finishing fin-ishing up my washing. I have been in 111 health for several months, and my husband had turned the clothes out of the washer for me In the morning. "I was cleaning up the kitchen preparatory pre-paratory to getting supper for my husband, who comes home between and 7 o'clock, and heard the baby cry In the next room. I stepped In there to see what was the matter with him, and after quieting him, returned to the kitchen. "A man was in the act of opening the door very quietly. I had no time to cry out, when he demanded my money. "I had paid some bills earlier In the day and had but a little change in the house. I told him so, and then he seized me by the throat and demanded that I show where I kept my purse. I pointed to the dresser in the bedroom and he dragged me In there. He got the purse out of the drawer, and opened it. "Then he struck me In the face with his hand, after throwing the purse on the floor, without taking the money from It. "Then he kicked my feet out from under me, and made an attempt to assault as-sault me. Then I fainted, and I was In a semi-conscious condition for a long time. The first that I fully realised was when my husband came home and revived me." |