DA: Would-be hotel rapist threatened to sue when confronted by employees

Leonard Hall, of no particular address, was ordered held in lieu of $75,000 bail today at his arraignment on charges he tried to rape an employee at the Doubletree Hotel on Washington Street, the Suffolk County DA's office reports.

According to the DA's office, a maid was cleaning a bathroom in a fifth-floor guestroom around noon on May 9 when she head the room door shut. Assistant DA David Deakin, chief of Conley's Family Protection and Sexual Assault Bureau, provided this account:

When she asked him what he wanted, he put his hand around her waist and then sexually assaulted her. The victim tried to get away, and she began screaming for help. Hall allegedly slammed the victim's hand in the door before fleeing the room. A male employee who heard the victim's screams followed Hall as he tried to exit the hotel. When he and a second male employee confronted Hall and tried to detain him after calling Boston Police, Hall allegedly threatened, "I'm going to sue' before leaving the hotel.

The DA's office says Hall then fled into the Tufts Medical Center T stop and got away on an Orange Line train before police arrived. Photos and videos led police to local homeless shelters, one of which was able to provide a lead on his whereabouts, the DA's office says.

Innocent, etc.