Cæsar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth CenturyDonnelly, Ignatius
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Cæsar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century
Donnelly, Ignatius
Dystopias -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction; Science fiction; Social problems -- Fiction; Twentieth century -- Fiction
PROBABLE MURDER--A YOUNG GIRL STABBED.
Last night, at about half-past eleven, on Seward Street,
near Fifty-first Avenue, a young girl was assaulted and
brutally stabbed in the throat by one of two men. The girl
is a singer employed in Peter Bingham's variety theater, a
few blocks distant from the place of the attack. She was
accompanied by her mother, and they were returning on foot
from the theater, where she had been singing. The man had a
carriage ready, and while one of them held her mother, the
other tried to force the young girl into the
carriage; it was plainly the purpose of the men to abduct
her. She resisted, however; whereupon the ruffian who had
hold of her, hearing the footsteps of persons approaching,
and seeing that he could not carry her off, drew a knife
and stabbed her in the throat, and escaped with his
companion in the carriage. The girl was carried into her
father's house, No. 1252 Seward Street, and the
distinguished surgeon, Dr. Hemnip, was sent for. He
pronounced the wound probably fatal. The young girl is
named Christina Jansen; she sings under the stage-name of
Christina Carlson, and is the daughter of Carl Jansen,
living at the place named. Inquiry at the theater showed
her to be a girl of good character, very much esteemed by
her acquaintances, and greatly admired as a very brilliant
singer.
LATER.--A young man named Nathan Brederhagan, belonging to
a wealthy and respectable family, and residing with his
mother at No. 637 Sherman Street, was arrested this morning
at one o'clock, in his bed, by police officer No. 18,333,
on information furnished by the family of the unfortunate
girl. A bloody dagger was found in his pocket. As the girl
is likely to die he was committed to jail and bail refused.
He is represented to be a dissipated, reckless young
fellow, and it seems was in love with the girl, and sought
her hand in marriage; and she refused him; whereupon, in
his rage, he attempted to take her life. His terrible deed
has plunged a large circle of relatives and friends into
great shame and sorrow.
"I had started to my feet as soon as I heard the words, 'The girl is
a singer in Peter Bingham's Variety Theater,' but, when her name was
mentioned and her probable death, the pangs that shot through me no
words of mine can describe.
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