The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, September 25, 1904
pg.2

A THRILLING EXPERIENCE
Monday morning, probably around 4 o'clock, Miss Rosebud Dilling, who is a visitor to the family of C.L. Deffenback, Sears street, discovered a Negro at her bedside who place a large knife at her throat, telling her if she made the least alarm that he would cut her throat.  The young lady was lying on her right arm.  She attempted to ...her arm when he again presented the knife to her throat.  With a desperate resolve she grappled with him and screamed.  Mr. Deffenback heard her cries and went to the rescue.  The negro, hearing his voice, sprang through the open window and escaped.  
There was a wire screening such as used for chicken yards, covered with vines a short distance from the window.  This was partially broken down.  He then broke off a limb and forced the screen window and climbed into the room.  The young lady describes the Negro as powerfully built.  There is no doubt he intended violence and the wonder is that he did not stab her when she made the outcry.

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