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life of Woman Endangered byROPED VICTIM’S i WEIGHT THWARTS WORK OF SUITORIK BOARD TO FILE PROTEST WITH COUNCILtimber* Declare Against Wooden Wall—Favor Open Field.STATEMENT I S S UED [)o \ot Want Sports Commercialized On City Property.ratine agaln^ P«rt of the pro-«*„ w hich is being mapped out by :,t, ,sts of the city for ablgAssailant gwings Sweetheart ^rpm Beam In injr-House.G I V D?sVjF*WlSHMENTPdlice Find Quarry In Hiding—Beating And Kicking.if-.. •; «• Sixth and Schroyer aviW member, of the C*n\on Park lP1 Mon ity announced that they , ;,m hav representation at lt;eouncU , .Mt Monday night. The park is strongly for a recreational ■ : *nd greatly extended Play-r -PlIS but the organisation does . . - to the erection of ft wooden ground the stadium, claiming u- it will he unsightly, and will sa-r;.,o strongly to professional r rts ratio, than amateur, Hennr FUnhof. i resident of the park board. Holiday issued the following etate-BWWESS smm• ^ nd belter play and f*cf®atlonps'jiul* for the use of both childrenuri crvdp upa. . .-we are sadly 1n need of just thne facilities and this board Is,continued on Page 12, Pol. 2.)MOTOR BUS NEED GROWING, CLAIMOp-hrsldcnt of Association Says cramr* Have Bndiiw* °n muiiul FoundationCOLUMBUS, March 10.—That sotnr bus transportation In Ohio Is io longer n cat proposltlor but Is on i --nnd foundatlqn after passing ihrough th- experimental stage Is lie declar dlon made here today by Ralph W. Sanborn. Cleveland president of the Ohio Motor Bus Asters' Association. Sanborn Is In olumbus In connection with the I . lt;g pmttoi papers for he Cleveland people* Motor Busand the presentation to the j oeiiar iif it* . onmmission of appli- ITugging desperately at a piece of rope around her neck, Eva Cooper. 27, colored woman, 333 11th st. 9. E., staggered Into the apartment of Joseph Brown, 1013 Belden av. N. E. early Sunday morning and gasped out a story of how a man had taken her to a dark cellar, beat and kicked her into gemi-conaciouanesa, then stringing her to a beam. ^Several hours after the attack police arrested John W. Horton, 30, colored, 1013 Belden av. N ,E. on the charge of assault with Intent to kill.I was drunk, when I beat her.but I didn't know I tried to hang her, police quoted Horton as say lng.According to police. Horton ha. been courting Miss Cooper several months. They quarreled a few lays ago. Early Saturday night Hortogj asked her to come to his rooming house at 1013 Bolden av. N, E. to effect a reconciliationMiss Cooper left heT employment as a domestic at a house In Carna ban av Saturday night at 8 and went to Horton'* rooming bouse. Her-to have attacked her. After beat tugthe girl Into seml-couecfousness he looped a rope around her neck and attempted to hang her from a beam.For half an hour she struggled to extricate herself from the death noose. At times she bung to the beam with one hand and then the other. Finally ahe became exhausted and dropped. The weight of her body broke the rope.With her face covered with blood, she dragged herself from the cellar to the first floor apartment of Brown and told him of the attack.Brown searched the house for Horton, but the alleged assailant had fled. He then called a physician and went to the girl's home in 11th st 8. E. informing her parents.John Cooper, father of the girl re ported the attack to Patrolman James Herdlicka. A few minutes later a squad of police under Sergt Wise visited Hortons rooming house. They found all the doors locked, breaking down the front one. and finding Horton concealed In the
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Canton Daily News
Canton, Ohio, US
Mon, Mar 10, 1924
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