The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-09-17

simon Cullan was before Jle mayor
Yesterday morning, charged with as
sault and battery with intent to COM
NIT a rape upon the person of Mrs.
| Mary Donovan. The parties are both
Irish, the latter living on the lower
end of Second or Wabash street. Gull
Ian is Waterman at Telford's Pork
House. The plaintiff testified that
she was passing from her own house
to that of a neighbor on Sunday even
ing, when the defendant followed her.
| seeing which she turned to go back
| home. Cullan turned also, and caught
her, and threw her to the pavement
two or three times, but proved himself
hardly match for the woman, who is
Of large and powerful frame. During
the melee he struck her blow on the
head, infieting an ugly wound, and she
got his. finger in her mouth and bit it
terribly. The assailant was finally
forced to desist without accomplishing
his purpose. After hearing the evil
4 dence, the Mayor bound Cullan over
| to the Circuit in the sum of five hum
bred dollars. He gave security and
was discharged. = Lafayette journal.
I BIG FIGURING MILL AT LEAvEN-
WORTH, INDIANA, BURNED. " Jester
day morning the large. Touring mill at
Leayenworth, Indiana, was destroyed
by fire. The fire broke out soon after
midnight and the officers of the
1 steamer Indiana, sixty miles down the
river, saw the light, and imagined it
to be a steamboat on fire only few
i miles off. The mill was very large
one, and was five or six stories in
hight, built wholly of wood, which,
! together with the materials inside,
including grain, -four, and cooperage,
made an extensive as we'll as disas
trous confagration.
One of the most daring and sue
cessful highway robberies that we
have ever been called upon to record
was perpetrated in this city on Tues
day night, by which Capt. Webb, late
of the 10th Indiana, was relieved of
$4,000 in greenbacks and Govern
ment bonds. Capt. Webb lives near
! Stockwell, in this county, and was on
his way to Illinois to purchase land.
Previous to leaving home on Tuesday
morning, he had made himself belt
TO wear around his body, into
which he placed his money. The
whole amount, $28,000,y as above
stated, he put into different envel-
opes, so that it could be equally dis
tributed around his body. This sum
+ comprised every cent he was worth in
the world He says he was not aware
that a living soul knew that he had
the. money with him. He was In the
city a portion of the day, and between
nine and ten o'clock started alone for
/ the Wabash Depot to take the train
west, which leaves between ten and
eleven. While passing along the
walk beside the railroad track, about
half way between Main and Ferry
hStreets, four men sprang from behind
some freight cars standing on the side
track. One of them put a handker-
chief over his mouth and around his
neck, another grasped his arms from
behind, and drew him into the shad-
ow, while the others rifed his person,
taking his belt and contents, and every
} thing else ofvalue about him. He had
a small memorandum book with him
containing the numbers of the bonds
in his belt, which was also taken, so that
he has no way of stopping their pay
ment. After the villains had COM
pleted their job they took to their
heels and he saw no more of them.
The place where the robbery occurred
is within few yards of several houses,
with gas light at the Main Street
corner, and another at the depot about
! half a square north of Ferry Street.
There is as yet, as far as we can learn,
no clue to the perpetrators Of the rob
berry, though they must have been
parties who knew he had the money,
and that he had it with him and where
it was secreted. Probably they were
parties who live in Captain Webb's
own neighborhood, and were acquaint-
ed with his movements and Intentions.
Lafayette Journal. $500