Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-03-20 | Page 1 | Injuries of Washington Quite Severe

INJURIES OF WASHINGTON QUITESEVERE Unable to Appear In Court Against Man Who StrncK Him. aaaaaana-a-eawaeaaa EDUCATOR MISTAKEN FOR AN INTRUDER Was Trying to Locate Man Whose Address He Had Lost NEW YORK, March 20. Booker T. . WaahlngVm waa ant ahla to appear i court today because of tha Injuries ka rscalvad last nifht, accord lc( to tha) tatecnent of his attorney, and tha hearing sf th charges against Albert . Ulrica, the carpenter arreetad last night on his complaint of felonioo a, aatut, was postponed onttl tomorrow. Ulrlch was held In 11500 balL l lrirh, a white rnaa, maintain today to-day that ha waa acting withia hi . right when he pursued the aegro educator edu-cator for eerera! block before a policeman po-liceman appeared. Ignorant of th negro' identity, he declared that hi wife had eomplaiaed to him of a aegro aha had met ia tha hallway of their flat bourn in West Sixty-third etreet. .Mr. Washington, who waa sent to Flower hospital, where sixteen stitch wer taken in hia scalp, asserted tbat bis mission to that neighborhood wa perfectly legitimate and that ha had , been mad tha innocent victim of aa etroeioua aaaault. Has ElTn Wounds. Attorney Smith, who represented Mr. Washington, told Magistrate Cornell that ht client had eleven wounds nnd that on of the wound had eauaed a serious hemorrhsge of the aar, A short affidavit waa thea made by Poliremaa Tierney, who brought CI rich to court, and on thia the priaoner waa held in 1.VM l.sll. A bond waa ftir-aiahed ftir-aiahed for IMrirh Vappearanc ia euurt aad he was released. . Mr. Washiuiitnn,, whs went to hi, T : apartment at Ui Hotel Manhsttau after hia wnuiula were dreeeed, told the Folic that he bad received a letter rom his secretary saving that 1 Hmitb. tha auditor of Tifakege college, of which h ia the head, waa in ew York City and desired to see him. "Thia letter laid that Mr. 8milh was topping with a cousin, giving the name and address," said Mr. Washington. 'On Hunday I attemled church aervirs twice and after speaking at ona church ia tha vning 1 recalled the letter coacerning Hmith and decided to look him up. 1 discovered that I bad left tha letter at the hotel, but I tboiyiit 1 could recall tha name as something If km Moore and the address aa being in West Hixty-third street. I went there and commenced to look at the name platea oa the letter boxe ia the hails of th different houses, seeking tiie nam of Mr. Hmith' cousin. It was while thus engaged that I ws at-tackd." at-tackd." Ulrica's Story. , Ulrieh, la aa Interview with his lawyer law-yer and other in court today, aaii: "About o'clock last night my wtf went for a walk. Wc live on the ground floor of th house. No. 11 'j West 8iity-third atreet. When she returned re-turned she said she hsd seen a actfro in tha hall and that he spoke to li-r. Mr. end Mrs. Kavette and Mr. Knowlea, friends of ours, were in the Sous ftt'th time. I went out BrM I saw a maa in tha hall of th vestibuio door ahead of me. " Ulrica said h saw th egre re enter the hallway and later saw him heniin down peering through the kevholM. Ulricb said the negro swung a hlnw at his jaw when he asked faun what wanted and that when he weut af'.-r the negro th latter fell twice ia his efforts to escspe.