Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-08-20
LOCAL NEWS.

| II chronicles the probable death oil the Two
uratcbes implicated The following Is a cor
rect statement OF the whole dreadful affair
| Ga Monday last Two colorel men, calling
themselves respectively Cha. brown and ia
cob Bergman, under arrest hy aud IN charge
| OF Vim. Scroggin, Deputy Sheriff OF Warren
county, j. L.. Jarman, ami other citizens, were
broush Into Fiont Royal accused OF an outrage
upon the person OF Miss Alice Thompson,
daughter Of rhos. j. Thompson, living heal
Happy Creek Station, on the O., i. VI. IL.
r. aud snch was The Indignation ot the crowd
| 10 attendance upon court, upon lrarn'ns 'hat
they were charged with So he,noul an ,he"e''
| that il required the utmost 'E"ft!'ha 81 inc
conservator4 of the pc.,c' ani "th'.et' prevent
SUMMARY iuatice being inh.rttd af'n theta
Ga the succeeding day, (tur day, LIN
iust., the prisoners, were brought hrIoit JUS
tees Lent, Houser aud Painter, AMI had their
preliminary examination, the Commonwealth
being represented hy }. Il. Jackson ant y. y.
Manofos, onl tho rrisrn"r9 hy i. ii. Turner
and Moses Walton, when the following facts
were elected, rs given in the Warren SGHunei;
ION Monday, tho lG;h inst Miss Alice
Thompson. aged about - years, had been sent
by her parents, on foot, to Front Royal to
purchase coal oil, &c, and upon her leaving
there Tor home, about 10 y clock, 4. m, short
" after getting beyond the limits OF that town,
She was espied by Brown and Bergman, and
pursued Tor more than u mile TO point where
She left the track OF the o., A. X VI. Ii. H.
and took path leading through thick woods,
when she was caught from behind 10y Brown,
who choked and attempted to throw her on the
ground, but, being warned that there was as
sistance near, he desisted from his purpose, but
threatened 10 shoot her il she did got 80 IN the
direction through the woods that he pointed
out, which she did; and had not gone more than
| fifty or one hundred yards, when bergman
stepped from behind . tree and cndeavored to
catch her. but she ran Tor her lllc, and tOrtu'
nately got into the open field before the villains
could lay hands upon her.
During the examination Miss Thompson
failed to identity Bergman, as one OF the
party making the assault upon her, yet the
evidence Of Jacob kuser Chas, b. Rust.
Presley Marshall, John Il. Dove aud others,
established, beyond doubt that he was the
companion of Brown in this outrage upon
Miss Thompson, who, during her pro,
tracted examination, gained the confidence anu
admiratio on OF all who heard her testimony, by
her trankneSs, modesty and lady like bearing.
"TheJ Justices unanimously sent the prisoners
on for indictment and trial by the Circuit
Court Of the county on the 18th instant
After the examination before the Magistrates
was concluded the injured lady confessed to her
friends that the crowd present had 50 confused
and embarrassed her that she hardly knew
what she hal said, AMI that she had been
ashamed to toll fully what had happened to
her. To her intimate friends, however, she SAID
that the arrested men were those who had at
tackled her; that she had first noticed them
standing by the lence on the side OF the road
about half mile from front Royal, and pad
no attention to them, bat that after proceeding
some distance further on she observed that
they were com,ug on I,ehinl her, and feeling
little uneasy she fastened htr steps, hut found
to her prca, alarm that they were gaming upon
her. When she looked around again She OBJ
served that only one WAS III sight. Inc Oder
had c,rcied arou6a IN the woods aud came out
again in front OF her Just as sha approached
deep cut 10 the railroad, and stt,tng hrr by
the hand dragged her into the 'ai<, ro'ntink
a pistol at h head as lhraai,i.."- h.' with
instant i1aih Il >hI uh,,.d at. Instance go
When az the 6ooishe en-. ht het b. the throat
and threw her to the ground. Alt3r
| that she recoilects nothing, escert that
upon r.sing from the prduh1 AMI tOttttIns 10.
| wards the road, the same one who had thrown
| her down, again took hold of her AMI pushed
her towards the other who Was stenjidg near
By aai though DONG A. lac directed her, She
| had strength enough to shrek before b. reach
I ed her, and that that shrek attracted The at
| tenilun 0t man who was at Work III hi
near by, at whose approach her as:nlant~ It'd.
| As may readily he imagined the marathon 6i
| this incident occasionel the most lutrasr excite
ment ia the minds Of all who heard II, and
| threats OF lynching tho CRIMINALS were - en-
rent in the neighborhood that the jail, for some
days and nights, WAS guarded b. strong force
| OF armed men, \ esterday this guard was remov
| ed aud last night those they hal protected lro
baby met an awful iatc. At t"o clock a IN.
a body of disguised m'n surrounded the laIL
OLe of whom Knocked al the dos, which be
| ing opened the TAILOR hal Il Cots pistol pre-
scented at his head, and icmanIi made lor the
keys OF the cell in which the prisoners were
coDined. The demand could mo-, under the
circumstances, be resisted, nul the key wa
delivered. Inc Ja,ior was thru locked "a" III
his own room, AMI knows nothing more oil
what TRANSFERRED. Nor can any more lactS u
elected, except that the cell in which the
prisoners were locked up was empty tins morn
ling, and that the mail boy from Luray passed
about daylight this morning. on the road L
Front Royal, a number OF strange LOOKING
men.
4 WASHINGTON FREE School. As will b
seen by the advertisement, this venerable III
| s,;,,,t;on tho legacy of the Father OF hi