Rudden Held For Trial

New York, 1895

His Story When Drunken Denied When He Got Sober.

Thomas Rudden, aged 20 years, of, Mineola, L. I., was committed without bail by Justice Welde in the Harlem Court on Monday for trial for attempting to kill Mrs. Margaret Tuttle.

The woman was waylaid at Seventh avenue and 139th street. Three wounds were inflicted with a knife which was found near the scene of the assault, together with a blood-stained handkerchief.

Rudden, on meeting Policeman Connolly, said he had stabbed the woman, and on reaching the West 125th street police station told the policeman where to find the knife and handkerchief.

He was taken before Mrs. Tuttle, who said she did not believe he was the man who stabbed her.

Rudden said he had tried to kill Mrs. Tuttle because he mistook her for his mother-in-law. He was drunk when he said this, and when he got sober he denied having stabbed any one, and said he could not have any grudge against his mother-in-law because he had none.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 15, 1895, p. 1.