Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-09-12

officer. who vsss member Of the Eighth Iowa
cavalry lust mustered oct Of service, vent 10
Fresport, after an absence Of four years, 90 meet
one Of these Young girls, 20 whom he vas be-
trothed. There he sss infrmed by their parents
Of their visit 70 this city, and Of their not con-
nunicatipg With them since their departure. and
of the strasgensss Of this circu nuisance TO them.
he inmsdistsly started for this place. and ar
rived on Tussday 20 6nd them r our streets and
to learn OF their sad condition. Yesterday be
visited the Menomonee House 10 procure their
baggage. for he had determined TO return the
unfoTtunaies TO their parents. The propristol
and pimps refused 70 lei him have Il, when be
rsturned to this city and procured the assistance
OF Sheriff Mahony and q member Of the late
company. and returning with them, procured
their trunks and satchsls. These he had taken
10 the Jefferson House and While there, or
on the way 70 the house, they learn
Cd that several OF the aceomplices Of Pierce we're
IN the city trying to inreigle the girls over the
river again. They az once went in search
OF then. and while doing 50 the scsundFels. 70
accomplish their eDds more easily, went 10 the
Jefferson Hose aud took the girls baggage
The sheriff and the two soldiers COS wind ofthis
new vancouver. and we're fortunate in capturing
the villains before they succeeded IN getting
away. The names OF these inhuman rascals are
Dan Starr, Waterman Of the coscern, and James
Horey. alias Rough Jack. They wera taken
before Judge Csnllion, and infor mations made
charging Starr, by threats, TO compel the girls
TO DO violence 10 their wishes, and Hovey with
petit larceny Stars examination came OF
Yesterday evening. and he vas held IN the sum
six hundred dollars. Howey's will take place
this morning.
Bat this is not all we have to relate OF this
horrible hell and its tends ncarnate Among
the witnesses 10 the examination was hand
some young girl. whom the sheriff rescued from
their.den of tiffany Seldom is prettier face
seen on our streets, and much less seldom such
an eye Of blue. The story connected with her
fate is still more terrible.
Something like two months ago she came to
this city pure and innocent country girl from
Jackson county. and entered the employment oil
one of our city milliners. While engaged in that
service she became acquainted with an houora-
Die and respectable young man who has since
left the city. He had frequently visited her, and
she bad, on a number of occasions, taken drive
with him How il was be did not learn, bv.
Pierce became acquainted With these facts and
be laid a most damnable trap 70 ruin her. De
procured horse and buggy one evening and
drove down 20 her residence, holding out the
idea be vas in the employ OF some livery estab
lishment. and told her that this young man had
sent him down with the buggy with a request
that che would take seat IN IL and be driven up
to a certain place where be would meet her, and
they would take one of their accustomed drives
together. She unthinkingly complied, when
Pierce, In accordance with his plan, drove her
outside Of the city limits, and when he had
reached a favorable place, amid some timber, be
forcibly ravlshed her person From thence he
took her to his den. where, as in the case OF the
other two girls, he compelled her, using the
same means. TO fiji the same revolving Office
From the Sheriff We learn that there is another
young girl of fifteen years OF age still remaining
with Pierce She is from Cedar Falls, or some
other ,own on the railroad west. She declined
giving her name, and positively refused to leave
the place with the Sheriff, as she said there was
no other course marked out for her Besides
this unfortunate girl. there are eight women in
the establishment, some of them most deplorable
looking objects, and who are degraded beyond
redemption One OF the FreepOrt girls stated
while in the court room that il was practice
with Pierce and his crew to administer choloform
TO parties who resorted 70 his house, and while
under its influence TO rob them Of their money
and vaiuables We have performed our task,
imperfecily it may be. in the relation of these
outrages Is il possible after all these crimes
coming to light, that such place should be sui
fered TO remain by those who have the authority
to remove IT, or that villains of the dye of Pierce
and his accomplices shall be permitted to live in
midst, and pollute our moral atmosphere by
their presence! Rather than this should be, we
should prefer 10 see the people appeal to Judge
Lynch TO reciify the wrong.