The Cairo evening bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1868-1870, 1869-08-14
A NEGRO OUTRAGEs A WHITE WOMAN.
He II Arrested I'm Cairo and Copfesses
HIS Guilt.

The arrest Of the negro Henry Bald.
win, In this city, ON q telegraphicd dis.
patch from Paducah, was noticed in these
columns yesterday.
A few hours after his arrest we visited
the wretched man In his cell. He is a
well.built negro boy, fully six feet In
height, and about nineteen years OF AGE.
He Is dressed In q weli-worn pair of but
ter'nut pantaloons, coarse shoes, a check
shirt, and blue military coat, much too
small for him. He Is a negro of some-
thing more than ordinary intelligence.
and seems to appreciate the awful dilem.
ma In which he has placed himself
When we asked HIM what character of
punishment he expected the outraged
husband and his friends would mete out
to him, he replied: shave mother ex.
pectation than that they will hang me. y
His story is as follows: '.s.--
He had been raised In the family of
Mr.. Baldwin, living near woodville,
which Is six or eight miles from Padu.
can. A preacher named Benson mar.
ried Baldwin's daughter "Gilly,n and
about three months ago he went to live
with them. Among other duties he per.
formed was that Of helping Mrs. Benson
milk the cows. Day before yesterday
about dusk, he was with her in the COW.
yard. No person was In view. All at
once II came into his head that he must
outrage her person. &c had been raised
with her from child, and protests that
he never thought OF such a thing before.
He approached her and told her his Dur.
pose. She made him no reply. He then
seized her, threw her down, and accom-.
piished his aim. He protests that
she neither screamed nor resisted him,
but admonished him to Immediately
leave the country. He says he took her
advice; Immediately proceeded to the
residence OF Mr.. Baldwin, took a mule
and saddle from the stable, aud nut ont
In the direction Of Blandvilie. When
near that place, he dismounted, turned
the head Of the mule and started It home.
gard. he then came on foot TO the
CAIRO ferry landing, and having twenty
i've cents In his pocket, crossed over TO
cairo. Five minutes after he left the fer.
~ boat he was arrested.
Some parts Of the negro's story bear
The impress Of truth. Mr.. Benson WAS
away from home when the outrage was
committed; there was no neighbor with
n hearing, ana II In probable that Mrs.
Benson saved her own life and that Of
,er little girl, In the house near by, by
lot raisingan outcry that would have
'een entirely useless. And It Is also
probable that Mn. b., fearing ne would |
murder her and her child, under the In
zane delusion that he thereby would
'over up his guilt, told him 10 leave the |
His statement that he neither |
truck her, choked her, or otherwise in
ured her, is contradicted by q letter from
which states that he 'abused
Ter badly" That he accosted her, and
Iandled her In a manner that led her 10
elieve he would murder her under the
lightest provocation is highly probable;
md that the lustful devil would have ac-
emphasized his purpose at any and all
azard IL, probably, undeniable.
When Informed, yesterday, OF the
robable fate that awaited him. he cried
utright, and continued to bemoan his
ate, In groans and tears, for an hour or
aore. When we visited him, however,
70 was quiet, and appeared TO contem.
late the terrrors before him with re-
ignation scarcely to be expected. He
'as anxious to see preacher OF the Cos
el and arrange for the new realities
'hich he felt quite confident he would
DON be called upon 10 enter.