The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-13

er cold, and that makes stock look
very poor.
a most bold and mean effort was
made as it appears to commit fell
oneous crime in this town, IN the
night time from Sunday May Cd, to
Monday May Sd, 1875. II is believ-
ed that the intention of this fendish
man was to commit the crime of
rape, under the following circum-
stances: An old, aged, feeble and
respectable widow lady lives in this
town on her homestead in her dwell
ing house alone, she has small hired
grill living with her. It had happen
ed that for several nights this ser
want girl had stayed with her pa
rents at home and had neglected to
go back in the evening to>sleep with
the old lady as the girlwa expected
to do. This night however the ser
want girl was sleeping with the old
lady ia her house. At about half
past twelve O'Clock in the night the
old lady heard her dog bark and she
awoke from sleep. The dog barked
about ten or fifteen minutes when he
became silent, and she then heard
some one raise up the window leading
into the room adjoining the room
where she and the girl were IN bed.
Soon after she heard some one IN
the adjoining room in the dark, who,
having went into the house through
the window; she then spoke and
protested against the Intruder COM
ing into her bedroom, and told him
to go out of the house. He however
seemed to care nothing about her
protest. He opened the door and
went into the bedroom in the dark,
directly to the bed. She then called
upon the servant girl sleeping with
her to get up and make light and
call people to help them. When the
criminal heard this he went to the
lower end of the bed and feeling the
servant girl in the bed also, he went
out of the bedroom into the'adjoin-
ing room and out of the house again
through the window he had come in.
By this time the old lady and the
little girl had become so excited, and
not knowing what to do to save
themselves from the violence of this
brute, they had got up from the bed
and dressed and had lighted can
die; the criminal then stayed around
the house and knocked on the differ
ent windows and knocked on the
outside door to the bedroom with a
club with such force that a part of
the plastering inside fell off; and he
then knocked in and broke two win
dow panes in the window near the
bed and pushed through it then into
the bedroom piece OF fence board
about six feet long. BY this time it |
become one O'Clock in the night and
the old lady and the girl, seeing that
they were not safe in their house,
risked their lives and their persons,
and left the house while the crimi-
pal was on the other side OF the
house, and went to the next neigh
bors where they stayed all night
and left their house and property
alone the balanse of the night. The
next morning the door of the house
was open and the same window was
raised where the criminal had pass
ed through, and the house was left
in the same condition as they left 1t
when they went off to the neighbers.
The tracks of the brute's boots were
plainly to be seen marked in the land
over which he came and went, and
also around the house, anG the fence
board was also still lying in the
house where he had thrown it while
they were in the house.
CORRESPONDENT.
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