Son of James Spencer and Sarah A. Leach. Died of phthisis pulmonalis (pulmonary tuberculosis) while serving a 5-year sentence at Sing Sing Prison.
THREE WOMEN ASSAULTED
On Wednesday Mrs. Richard Williams, in company with her mother and sister, was crossing a piece of woods near the Mariners' Harbor Road, at West New-Brighton, Staten Island, when a man rushed out suddenly from the shrubbery in a partially nude state. He knocked Mrs. Williams down, and attempted to assault her. Her companions attacked the man with their parasols, and frightened him away. The next day Mrs. Stella Gex was crossing a field near Washington-avenue, West New-Brighton, when she was similarly attacked by a man of the same description as that furnished by Mrs. Williams. Mrs. Gex was knocked prostrate by the man, who escaped after assaulting her. That same night a school girl, whose name was not made public, told the police that she had been assailed by the same man. She had a heavy school rule with her, and being an athletic young woman she had so thoroughly whipped and bruised him that he gladly let her alone. The description she gave of the man, however, was so close that the police thought they knew who the offender was, and yesterday they arrested James Spencer in Bergen Point and charged him with the assault. He was committed pending an examination, when the ladies attacked will be given a chance to identify him.
The New York Times, Sat, 20 Jun 1885, p. 3
THREE WOMEN ASSAULTED
On Wednesday Mrs. Richard Williams, in company with her mother and sister, was crossing a piece of woods near the Mariners' Harbor Road, at West New-Brighton, Staten Island, when a man rushed out suddenly from the shrubbery in a partially nude state. He knocked Mrs. Williams down, and attempted to assault her. Her companions attacked the man with their parasols, and frightened him away. The next day Mrs. Stella Gex was crossing a field near Washington-avenue, West New-Brighton, when she was similarly attacked by a man of the same description as that furnished by Mrs. Williams. Mrs. Gex was knocked prostrate by the man, who escaped after assaulting her. That same night a school girl, whose name was not made public, told the police that she had been assailed by the same man. She had a heavy school rule with her, and being an athletic young woman she had so thoroughly whipped and bruised him that he gladly let her alone. The description she gave of the man, however, was so close that the police thought they knew who the offender was, and yesterday they arrested James Spencer in Bergen Point and charged him with the assault. He was committed pending an examination, when the ladies attacked will be given a chance to identify him.
The New York Times, Sat, 20 Jun 1885, p. 3
Son of James Spencer and Sarah A. Leach. Died of phthisis pulmonalis (pulmonary tuberculosis) while serving a 5-year sentence at Sing Sing Prison.
THREE WOMEN ASSAULTED
On Wednesday Mrs. Richard Williams, in company with her mother and sister, was crossing a piece of woods near the Mariners' Harbor Road, at West New-Brighton, Staten Island, when a man rushed out suddenly from the shrubbery in a partially nude state. He knocked Mrs. Williams down, and attempted to assault her. Her companions attacked the man with their parasols, and frightened him away. The next day Mrs. Stella Gex was crossing a field near Washington-avenue, West New-Brighton, when she was similarly attacked by a man of the same description as that furnished by Mrs. Williams. Mrs. Gex was knocked prostrate by the man, who escaped after assaulting her. That same night a school girl, whose name was not made public, told the police that she had been assailed by the same man. She had a heavy school rule with her, and being an athletic young woman she had so thoroughly whipped and bruised him that he gladly let her alone. The description she gave of the man, however, was so close that the police thought they knew who the offender was, and yesterday they arrested James Spencer in Bergen Point and charged him with the assault. He was committed pending an examination, when the ladies attacked will be given a chance to identify him.
The New York Times, Sat, 20 Jun 1885, p. 3
THREE WOMEN ASSAULTED
On Wednesday Mrs. Richard Williams, in company with her mother and sister, was crossing a piece of woods near the Mariners' Harbor Road, at West New-Brighton, Staten Island, when a man rushed out suddenly from the shrubbery in a partially nude state. He knocked Mrs. Williams down, and attempted to assault her. Her companions attacked the man with their parasols, and frightened him away. The next day Mrs. Stella Gex was crossing a field near Washington-avenue, West New-Brighton, when she was similarly attacked by a man of the same description as that furnished by Mrs. Williams. Mrs. Gex was knocked prostrate by the man, who escaped after assaulting her. That same night a school girl, whose name was not made public, told the police that she had been assailed by the same man. She had a heavy school rule with her, and being an athletic young woman she had so thoroughly whipped and bruised him that he gladly let her alone. The description she gave of the man, however, was so close that the police thought they knew who the offender was, and yesterday they arrested James Spencer in Bergen Point and charged him with the assault. He was committed pending an examination, when the ladies attacked will be given a chance to identify him.
The New York Times, Sat, 20 Jun 1885, p. 3
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