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Show feet. I thought his intention was to rob me and started to give him what little money I had and my Jewelry, but he said he-did not want them; -that he wanted me. "I screamed, and he put his other hand in the collar of my dress and choked me and said if I screamed again he would kill me. , Man Was Choking Her. "I was unable to make an outcry; he was choking me so hard. I have always been troubled with my heart and he noticed no-ticed how hard my heart was beating and said: 'Your heart is beating awful fast.' "I have but a faint recollection of what happened after that, but remember remem-ber being dragged along and Into some water. I don't know how long a time elapsed before I realized I was lying in the snow, and made an attempt to get up. At first I could not think where I was, but gradually everything came back to me. My feet and lower limbs were In the creek; the rest of my body on the bank. "I don't know how I ever got away from . there or how I managed to get home, but I did somehow. The man might have mistreated me brutally, Indeed, In-deed, bad he not believed I was dead. Believed Her Bead. "I im of Jhe Impression that the man believed he had killed me and left me, after dragging me through the creek. This Is the first time I have felt grateful that I had a weak heart." And as Miss Bieslnger finished her story great tears gathered in her eyes, tears of genuine thankfulness, and rolled down her cheeks. Further than that her assailant was a rough-looking man of stocky build and middle age she could not describe him. I1ISS BIESINGER TELLS THE STORY OF HER TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE ' BY MISS EMMA BIESINGEIL TLEFT home early in the afternoon . 1 of the day on which I was attacked ' o attend, some business down town, intending in-tending to call at a friend's house in Thirteenth East between Eleventh and Twelfth South before returning home. "I had never been to the house, but bs I had the address, anticipated no 4Ufflculty in finding the place. "My business kept me in town longer than I had calculated It would, and then when I was ready to start I lost considerable consid-erable time waiting for a car, but as It was important that I should see this i lady, I concluded to go anyway. j, The Darkness Spreads. "I left the car at Thirteenth East street about 7 o'clock. It had already become quite dark, and In my haste I walked by the house I should ' have stopped at, and was rapidly crossing i v' bridge that spans a little creek there. J had seen no one and was unaware of fhe presence of any idanger, and was about half way across the bridge when I was suddenly tripped and my feet thrown from under me. "I remember falling, and I think I roust have been partially stunned by .the fall, for the next thing I realized was that a mad whom I could see but indistinctly had a grip on the collar of my dres and was pulling at me and telling me to get up. Did Hot "Want Her Jewelry. "I don't think I then clearly realized my position, for I did not attempt to rise; he hurried me by jerking me to my |