The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-05-30
OUfRk8Es IN MADDUxPORT.
A Poor Old Woman Sh0ckingly Beat
en-, aad gu. BY a River Rough, and
little Girl Attacked. and her
Clothes Torn from her Body.


Yesterday evening, about half-past
six, a messenger came to DR.. Magen-
ISIS. saying that a woman, who was
beaten in Madduxport, required his
services. The JOURNAL reporter.
passing few minutes afterwards, ac-
eepted q seat in the doctors buggy,
and went with him to see the woman,
and ascertained the facts to be as fol-
lows:
Some time during the afternoon
man came to the house of Mr..
Bauer, who lives on the corner of
Third and Tenth Avenues, and asked
Mrs. Bauer for something to drink,
which she declined giving, and asked
him to leave. He left her house, and
going across Tenth Avenue to the
house of a woman named Wall, made
himself at home there, and asked
Mrs. Boyd, the mother of Mrs. Wall,
for drink of water. which she gave
him, and asked him to leave.
As soon as he went out, Mrs. Boyd
fastened her doors, and was fastening
the windows preparatory to going to
a neighbours house, because she was
afraid of the man, when suddenly he
spraDg in the back window. knocked
her down, and stuffed her mouth full
| of rags. so that she could make no
cutlery.
The old woman, who is sixty years
old and a great grandu other. resisted
the rufian with all her strength, and
in doing so, he beat her so badly about
the head and face as to close up both
her eyes, and leave her face so black
and swollen as to he scarcely recog-
nizable, cutting a deep cash over her
left eyebrow, that penetrated to the
bone.
In her struggle with the rufian.
Mrs. Boyd got her right hand near
his mouth, when seizing it In his
teeth, he bit nearly through the outer
edge of the palm. leaving cash near
ly an inch and quarter long When
he knocked her down, he fell brutally
upon her, his knees striking heavily
on her right breast and side. bruisiDg
her so badly that she cannot breathe
without great pain. Doctor Megeniss
who dressed her wounds, thinks it
not improbable that death may result
from her wounds. her age and the sea-
son both being sgainst her.
A neighboring woman, hearing the
sound of struggling, went to the
house and knocked at the door, when
the scoundrel took the alarm and fed
westward toward the woods. At the
edge of the woods girl about twelve
years old, named Eveline Hill, was
gathering muIberries. when the ruffian
came up and assaulted her. She, in
her struggles to free herself from his
grasp. was very roughly handled, hav-
ing a great portion of her clothing
torn from her body.
Her elder sister. hearing her
screams, added her cries, as she saw
her in the rufhan's grasp, and he fear
ing that help would soon be at hand
fed to the woods.
It seems little strange that such
outrages can occur in this neighbor.
hood, in the middle of the afternoon
and the perpetrator not be appre
hended.
Mrs. Bauer says that Mrs. Boyt
, expressed fear of the fellow when HI
first came into her house, and Mrs
, Bauer sent to the Bellevue Gardens fol
, her husband and other men. who die
F not arrive until after the woman was
beaten. They at once gave chase, bu
only came near enough to him to rec
ognize him as John McCarty, burly
river rat, who went to Jail from thu
Marine Hospital, about year ago
for some violence attempted or com
mitted there.
A week or two ago he is said tt
have been arrested and fined in thu
Recorders Court, for fighting will
Jim Mulligan. on the wharf, and il
we'll known to the police. It is to b.
hoped that he will be shortly arrested
and that the new town will improvis'
a police force to protect them agains
the ravages of such rufians, VIII
have made their village the scene o
several such outrages within a few
weeks. A little hanging judiciousl!
! distributed among the Williams would
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