New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-11
OUTRAGE At MICHIGAN CITY

We find in The Chicago Press the following account
of most fcndish outrage in Michigan City:
Thursday night a Scotch girl of good habits AMI
reputation arrived at Michigan City on one OF the trans
and inquired for an engineer on the New Albany AMI
Salem Railroad to whom, was Gterwlrd ascertaned
she is engaged to be married The runners OF ChIds
hOuse came her and told her that the man she
asked for was out on the road but would be in that
Ih and that he boarded at Childs's house where she
would meet him if she went there. The story Is utter
Is false the man has never boarded there-but the
unsuspociing girl went with the scOundres. She laid
OF her outside garments and ate some supper IN pay
ipg for which she showed that size had some money
and also that she gold rings on her fingers AMI
in her ears. Some time after supper she was offered
glass OF wine which she imprudenGy drank. In less
than ten uinuies she thinks she fell asleep very much
against Ter inclination. When she awOke she found
herself az another house, her purse and rings gone, and
her earrings actually torn out of her ears
Warrants were Immediately issued for the arrest
the three men, but il was ascertained that only Child
WIS in tie place; the Others had gone of in some
the uicLt trains. Close watch was kept upon the
house in hopes the two might return, and also to pre-
vent the escape of Childs. As they had not returned
by Saturday night as the next dav. il resolved To
take him. and to search the house. A large crowd
went 10 the house, and Chds hearing them coming no
treated to the garnet where he was pursued As on
Of tie party was mounting through the scute, Chllds
struck him from above with knife splitting OF his
thumbs and caused him to drop down to the floor below
Others mounted but Childs taking advantage of the
confusion kicked off tie siding Mt the gable end and
iumred twenty feet into the back yard unseen by the
crowd and escaped. In his fall he dropped revolver,
each of the six barrels loaded and capped, and a large
dix knife and in haste left them where they fell
The crowd was Infatuated at his escape that in
spite of the remOnstranccs of the more moderate they
commenced DESTROYING the furniture, and in n short
fine carred everything in the house out in the street
where they piled it into heaps and burned to ashes
Tie windows were all knocked out many OF the doors
battered down, and every article shlvered to atoms
All day Sunday the town and suburbs were secured IN
search of Childs without success.
II aruears that Inc owner Of the house who is very
esiimaiIe old Quaker living about six miles from the
cv Is clad enough TO have the house cleared OF Its
tcnuts even at the pccuuidry loss 10 himself IN doors
and windows and the community has no other feeling
than that of satisfaction that the miserable villains are
routed.
The Michigan CITY Enterprise gives somewhat
different account of this affair, and publishes the
annexed deposition from the young lady herself:
If Indiana LOpoyte County ND Isabella Under
took from the Michigan Central RAILROAD cars 60 the Rail
Iosd EaDgfiouse ieins me mat James ason eosusd
lot home until the next evening" remained there - slp
srs ladies there Of whom asked me 10 drink glass OF
vine: did soon h,gan 20 feel stupid have no recoIec
lion Of what took place from tina, time until the next morning.
b onnd uyef al another house having lost my ant
frgorng alb cape paraso ana 20 N money one ear ins
ne efo o.elses md I'll, tie aad9Td Ia 1hs
my keIchef then went CUT INTO The street AMI inquired
standing on one corn, OF the stieet n h M m
recollection Of any mpTopriees being taken with me A. a
from ry rorsou or persons evidence OF anything OF he
6 m al quite supplied for two or three days ater
Idtu III wines thought the person that gave me tue VINE
,as udy traveller the lady hat tod me when n,st went 20
n house that Mr. did board there aud that she
would inquire for II any about the house knew him
ft W not present when the vine was offered me- would
NV ~ m that waited the table and also the COOK aut
lie "a, took ne from the 70 the house 0ne Others mat
I ~ ont the house. her
ISABELLA y UNDERWOOD.
mark.
W. h. CUISINE.
Mrs Chlds and Mrs. Kimball, who have been de-
tanned since tic transaction, left for the residence
Ms C.'s father IN Kalamazoo. No evidence was al
duccd that would warrant their detention. In fact the
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