Published: 1889, The New York Times
Written by: ?A FIGHT WITH BURGLARSA NOTEBOOK SAVES THE LIFE OF ITS FORTUNATE POSSESSOR
Baltimore, Aug. 25. - A daring attempt at robbery and murder, similar to the Luca case in Brooklyn, was made in the house of James O. Bates on Park-avenue early this morning. Mr. Bates is of the firm of Hennegen & Bates. He and his family are away except his son, Fred A. Bates, twenty-one years of age. Mr. Fred Bates and two servants were the only occupants of the house.This morning, about 1:30 o'clock, Mr Bates was awakened by a noise. Picking up a revolver, he in the dark groped his way down stairs to the dining room. In the dark room he could just make out the outlines of a man bent over the table. Mr. Bates without delay shot at the fellow, but hardly had the pistol go off when he heard a chair being upset behind him. He wheeled about just in time to receive across his right shoulder a gash with a razor intended for his back. A morocco note book in his breast pocket, one quarter inch thick, saved the young man's life. The cut was inflicted by another man, whose presence was revealed by his upsetting the chair. The man gave Mr. Bates two more cuts extending from the right shoulder down to the breast. He also slashed him twice in the left breast and once above the heart. In the meantime he grabbed Mr. Bates's revolver, but the young man pulled the hammer and the second shot went off, missing the assailant, as unfortunately had the first shot.After this the burglars disappeared. while Mr. Bates ran to the front door and shot three times for assistance. The officers found that there were two or three robbers, and that they had forced their entrance through a shutter into the kitchen. The cut into Mr. Bates's coat, seven in all, were inflicted with a razor. Mr. Bates was saved from bleeding to death only by his happening to have that jeweler's note book in the right breast pocket of his coat. The razor had cut through half the book. No arrests have been made.
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