The Deadly Hatpin

Woman Arrested For Puncturing Five People In the Arm.

New York, May 8.—Pedestrians on Upper Broadway last night were startled by the actions of a middle-aged woman, dressed in deep mourning, who approached four men and one woman successively and calmly jabbed each in the arm with a hatpin. When arrested the woman gave the name of Mary Maloney and an address in West Ninety-four street which investigation showed to be a vacant lot. She was picked up, charged with felonious assault. Each victim was punctured in the right arm, though why the strange woman in black wielded her hatpin weapon is a mystery. All of the victims positively identified the prisoner as the woman who jabbed them, but she indignantly denied the charge.

--Warren Evening Mirror, Warren, Pennsylvania, May 8, 1909, page 7.