| Show WOMAN WAN DIES AFTER FIGHT WITH NEGRO I Mrs McDuffy's Death Due to Fight Say Her Parents SHE LIVED MONTH IN FEAR Often Saw In Sleep Black Man Mazi With Whom hotH She Struggled on Porch St. St Louis July 22 l Mrs Anna McDuff McDuffy Mc- Mc Duff Dully Duffy was isas buried yesterday In St. St Peters Peter's cemetery She was attacked on the night of June 19 by a 0 nc negro ro roon on the back porch of or her home OFallon street Since the attack McDuffy has been extremely nervous ner ncr voLts OIlS and her liet- relatives say her death eath was due to the fright caused by her struggle with the negro Airs s. Irs McDuff McDuffy told the police after artel the attack that the negro had stolen her money and R Pirn ni rn part of her clothIng clothing clothing cloth cloth- ing flOm toni her Sh She Shiv fought bravely and the assailant was routed She died Wednesday Jo Joseph eph Richardson colored of 1 1128 North Eighth street sheet was arrested after the attack and Is still held by the police awaiting trial Monday Only once since Inco the attack did Mrs Mis McDuffy sleep In the tho OFallon street house The night she slept there her street slept in an adjoining room father faUler James West Vest of 1003 Brooklyn with a loaded revolver by his side Every E day from the night of the attack to her death she made sonic some to her mother or other oIlier members members mem mem- bers of her family showing her fear for the negro she identified as her heru u assailant and also for all negroes I 1 cant can't get over that horrible dread she sal said to her mother one Every EYer negro I see sec seems to tobe tobe tobe be eyeing me The fhe way they look 1001 at atme atme me they scare me I know I will die from the lie scare when that man at attacked attacked at- at tacked lacked me inc Saw Sat Fie Face at I Night ht At another tune time she said Mother that scare caro will ilI be the lie end of me The cold chills go up and down my back ever every time Unto I think of ur that negro I wake up at al night and see his fac It ItIS ItIs Itis is before mo me In the daytime all the time You cant can't tell how terrible It Is When I Identified him at the Four Courts she said to her mother on ott another occasion he lie glared at me I 1 have seen those terrible black eyes ees day since then every el Mrs Mis McDuffy once said I sIte she he had a mortal dread thread of appearing against those terrible black eyes Monday Death spared her the tile torture Mrs 1 McDuffy who was a peculiarly o young woman was vas call called cd to the back porch pOlch o of her Hat ilat on the second sec sec- fid ond floor of OFallon street treet Tuesday Tues Tue- tIny day a ev evening June 19 b by a n. knock athe av at the door dum As she opened tho the door saw no ono standing before It Across the porch she saw the ho shadow of a n ma man n What i do o yo Oll want 7 ash asked s d Irr McDuffy according to lice lir narra- narra ire Ivo to a n reporter the day followIng following following fol fol- fol- fol lowing the attack lie He made malIc an nit In- In remark My 1 heart thumped I was frightened I knew from his tone and skulking m a desperate man confronted me I believed ed I was as fleet enough to reach ahead of him the steps tep leading from the porch to tho the court COUlt When hen I ran tan he lie ran rati Wo We reached the hea head of or the steps at the same arne time Then rhen began the encounter The stocky docky negro clutched at fit her throat He lie pawed with his like gorilla claws ind md tort tore her skirt skirl ant and shirtwaist from fromer ner er according to lo her hr stor story story- Ills In Insulting In- In remarks continued with his attick at- at tack tick Mrs McDuffy fought with the desperation desperation des des- It takes to win such a gle Ile She scratched his eyes pulled pulle his hair and kicked him hen When Mrs McDuffy de descended cen ed a u few fei st steps ps into he light a horror worse than the th first impression slon ns felt fell In the light she hc saw av that the man mUll she sho was struggling with was a negro Ll LI Light ht lIt Man Iun Fled She almost fainted then lien The negro afraid to continue attack In the light fled taking as a last resort what mone money he lie found In the book pocket he lie had hod wrenched from Mrs McDUffy 1 As Ashe Ashe he w fled lell Mrs McDuffy collapsed The next day she moved to lo her hel parents' parents home hOln In Brooklyn street where she he died tIled |
