Kenneth Smith allegedly assaults and attempts to rob Josephine Rosenzweig

While at a second hand store on Eighth Avenue, the defendant [Smith] "struck deponent [Rosenzweig] on the head with a hammer handle, causing deponent to sustain a possible fracture to the skull, multiple extensive lacerations and bruises of the head, face and neck." The assault occurred during an attempted robbery. The NY Age reported that Smith was interrupted by the proprietor of the neighboring auto school, who after hearing groans, investigated with an employee and a neighborhood ice man. They found Smith changing clothes and Rosenzweig, the storeowner, in the washroom injured. Smith fled, pursued to St Nicholas Ave, where a radio car waved down, Smith fled into subway station, out the other side, straight into Patrolman.