Albuquerque Morning Journal

WOMAN VICTIM OF SERIES OF ASSAULTS
Wife of San Diego Car Man Three Times Attacked by Thugs.

San Diego, Cal., Aug. 9.-For the third time within sixty days, Mrs. Merl Wetmore, wife of a street car man, was last evening the victim of an assault, presumably by the same man at her residence on 30th street and National avenue. A warrant was issued for Louis Zelbel, but it has not yet been served.

Last night when Mrs. Wetmore and her baby were alone in the house, a man entered and knocked her unconscious. When she regained her senses she found the house was on fire. She snatched the baby from the bed which was burning, and made her way to the street. The fire department extinguished the flames and an investigation showed that the room had been robbed.

Mrs. Wetmore states that six years ago, when a girl living with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rush, on a farm twenty-one miles from Davenport, Iowa, her grandfather died, leaving property to her father, but cutting off his brother. Subsequently her father's barn was fired by masked men. Her uncle and Louis Zelbel and a brother of the latter, were arrested and tried for arson, but were acquitted. She declares that Louis Zelbel said he would have revenge on her for testifying against them.