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Show I SIXTEEN SnjCHES I Arc Necessary to Close Scalp Wounds of Book- er T. Washington '1 .New York, March 20, Booker T. I j Washington was not able to appear II In court today because or the injuries he recolved last night, according to ' tho statement of his attorney, and tho hearing of tho charges against Albert Ulrich, the carpenter, arrost-od arrost-od last night on his complaint of felonious assault, was postponed until un-til tomorrow. Ulrich was held in $1,500 ball. Ulrich, a white man, maintains to- Jfr day that he was acting within his ; rights when ho pursued the negTO i educator for several blocks before a policeman appeared. Ignorant of ; the negro's identity, he declared that his wife had complained to him of a negro she had met In the hallway of their flat hou6e. in West Slxty-thlrd street. i ', Mr. Washington, who was sent to Flower hospital, w"hore sixteen stltch- ' es wero taken In his scalp, asserted i that his mission to the neighborhood was perfectly legitimate and that he y had been made tho Innocent victim of an atrocious assault j Attorney Smith, who represented - Mr. Washington, told Magistrate Cor- nell that his client had eloyen wounds l and that one of the wounds bad . caused a serious hemorrhage of tho ear J A short affidavit was then made by L Policeman Tlernoy, who brought Ul-5 Ul-5 rich to court, nnd on this the prisoner I was held In $1,600 ball. A bond was furnished for Ulrlch's appearance In ' court, and be was released. I Mr. Washington, who went to his j , apartment at tho Hotel Manhattan r after his wounds were dressed, told U the police that he had received a let-' let-' ter from his socretary saying that ! D. C. Smith, the auditor of Tuskogee 3 college of which he is the head,, was i in New York city, and desired to J J see him. , ft "This letter said thnt Mr. Smith i was stopping with a cousin, giving 4 tho name and address," said Mr, Washington. "On Sunday I attended I church services twice and, after i speaking at one church in the even-t even-t lng, I recalled the letter concerning fc 8mlth and decided to )ook him up." i But 1 discovered I had left the letter i t at the hotel, but I thought I could re- j ' call tho name as something like : ' Moore, and the address n& being 1 West C3rd street I went there and commenced to look at the 'name plates on the letter boxes In tho halls ; of the different houses, seeking the name of Mr. Smith's cousin. It was while thus engaged that I was at- ' tacked. i Ulrich, in an Interview, with his lawyers and others in court today, It said: i "About 9 o'clock last night my wife went for a walk We live on the ground floor of the house 'No. 11 West G3rd street. When she returned re-turned she said she had seen a negro in the hall, that he spoke to her. Mr. and Mrs. Ravette and Mrs. Knowles, 'a friends of ours were In the house nt j the time. I went out and saw a man in tho hall of the vestibule door I ahead of mc." Ulrich said ho saw the negro reenter re-enter the hallway, and later saw him bending down peering through the 1 key hole Ulrich said tho negro swung a blow on hie Jaw, when he asked him what ho wanted, and that, when he wont after tho negro the latter lat-ter fell twice in his efforts to escape. ! oo |