The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.11, page 4, Mar. 1911, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WAS HINOTON Papers Nathan Hunt to CharIes H. Fearing New York Mch 20 [~ ~] What ~ want was copies of letters written me by Scott since ~ left there - if he did not bring than let matter go you need not answer any paper Telegrams. N H AWIr Con. 606 BTW Papers DLC. From Henry E. Bakert Washington, D.C., March 20 [~ ~] My dear Mr. Washington ~ was greatly shocked to read this mornmg of the outrageous assault upon you last night in New York City, ant! ~ write to offer you my sincere sympathy. To be sure you wiD be sustained by the strongest public sentiment and sympathy in every effort you make to bring your assailants to swift and ample justice. Youm very truly, Henry E. Baker ALS Con. `34 BTW Papers DLC. ~ Henry E. Baker was an examiner in the U.S. Patent Oflice in Washington. He had been in 1898 the treasurer of Manassas Industrial School. 2 Henry Albert Ulrich, the assailant, a carpenter by trade, was proprietor of the West Side Dog Exchange. He had left his wife and two daughters in Orange, N.J., to live at all/ West Sixty-third Street, New York City, with Laura Page Alvarez and her daughter. He had been accused earlier in the year of stealing a prize Pomeranian, but had been acquitted. Ulrich was a stocky, powerful man in his forties, about five feet, seven inches tall. After his acquittal on the assault charge in November 19~, he was imprisoned in Orange County jail for refusal to pay for child support. BTW described Ulrich as ''a 'ward heeler' for one of the political captains in that part of the city,'' whose ''political influence'' secured Ulrich's acquittal. (BOW to F. K. Collins, Aug. 2~, 19~2, Con. 45~, BTW Paps, DLC.) The most detailed treatment of the assault is Willard B. Gatewood, 'maker T. Washington and the Ulrich Affair,'' Phylon, 30 (Fall 1969), 186-30~. 4