FULL TEXT: Pittsburgh, Aug. 4. – In a fit of jealousy, a
woman showered a man and his
dancer-companion with acid last night in a North Side cafe.
Janet
Aldrich, 22, a dancer, was seated at a table with a young man when a woman
approached, and asked the man: “Do you want me or her?”
“I'll
take her,” the man smilingly replied. Then the “other woman” threw acid over
the man and Miss Aldrich. As he fled from the cafe, the man discarded his
acid-soaked shirt,
which was the only clue the police had to his identity. Miss Aldrich received
acid burns on the face and left arm.
Police
later learned that Betty King was treated for burns on both arms at West Penn
Hospital. Although she claimed she suffered the burns when a bottle of acid
fell from a medicine cabinet in her home, Miss King was charged with assault
with intent to maim after Miss Aldrich identified her as the alleged acid
thrower.
[“Woman Throws Acid on Man, Companion – Showering, In Fit of
Jealousy, Takes Place In Pittsburgh Café,” Cumberland Evening Times (Md.),
Syndicated (UP), Aug. 4, 1938, p. 1]
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SEE: “Acid Queens: Women Who Throw Acid” for a collection of synopses of similar cases.
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SEE: “Acid Queens: Women Who Throw Acid” for a collection of synopses of similar cases.
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