Evening star., 1877-12-11
LOCAL NEWS.
The Outrage on Miss smith.

ihiS morning, IN the Criminal Court. Judge
ohn, The case cf Cephus Jones. colored charged
WIN having. on the sh Of November last. COM
mitted rape on the person OF Florence r.
Smith, young white Girl. ahout IS wears Of
age, was called Anticipating proceedings I'm
TINS trlai there was a large crowd Of Spncta-
tors In court. Jones appeared i'm co,,rf t,r,sss.1
W III Nhi'e MI shlrl, eiaeh Morsted pantaloonS and
dietment plead not guilty. MeSSrS NJ A New
man and A. A. BiTney appeared Tor ne mis-
oner; District Attorney Wells and his as
Sistant H. II. Wells. jr.. for the goVernment'
TIRE Jury.
The Jurors were sworn on their rofre d5re-
and the toloWing selected; Richard fullalove.
Mann. John n. Russell. q. r. MiN. Charles
T. MauEN. Robert Arm>tead%. Edward Gru-
sor', Matthias Hunter, W. n. Corkhin aud
SeeIgt -. livingston. Those marked with
Delozier Davidson was challenged by de-
iendant. aS also Dennis Callahan. Henry OF
ming. Owen % Hare, John Cas-, W n Gill aud
James 1. Taylor. Charles n. Bruce was chal-
lcngcd by the government Mr.. John Riley
said be read THE STAR al the time. and he he
heyed Jones was gully. hut he could not say
hat he Was the man, and he thought he could
hnd verdict according 10 the evidence hut
' 70 ~ mpIg,%g T@Sre Sde NM S,Ah %S%d hise ss
he was not competent. The court held that he
was competent The defence noted an eNcep-
tion and challenged MIR. Riley. The court re
cause they read papers they would soon have
nothing hut Tools ON the jury. a.. NJ. sanford
had termed an opinion. Thomas W. smith
stated that DE had read the papers. hut the ac-
counts had made no impression on his mind.
He MAS challenged by defence. j. r. Mann
nad iolmcd NO opinion read the Bible aud the
Washington Post every morning. W. X. Gill
said he had a slight impression of the case,
and the defendant claimed that he was incOm-
peient The court said that any sensible man
would have an impression ON reading an ar
tice, bui the Juror he belieNcd was an honest
hoy. The defence excepted 10 the ruling and
challenged the juror. Edward Clark had an
opinion.
OPENING ARGUMENT.
Al ". O'clock the jury was sworn, and As
Sistant Di>iut Attorney Wells opened the
ease, stating that they expected 10 show that
on the 5th uf November last an estimable
young lady. while going ON an errand for her
father was seized 10y the prisoner at the bar,
dragged INTO an alley. beaten aud maltrcated,
her person being violated: aud they expected
10 show that tins man committed the offence.
STORY or THE VICTIM.
Florence ". smith was called. aud came I'm
With her mother. Alter being sworn. she tes-
titled that ON the evening in question she went
from her nome, on 10Th street east. to go To sth
ana III streets northeast. and returning home
saw on lHh street a man leaning AGAINST A
lamp post, and, getting frightened. She looked
at him hard; heard him walking. and She
walked last. and when She was near her home
ne seized her around the waist with both arms.
She immediately screamed, when he struck her
IN the mouth Nits his inst, and then struck her
tlon oi this She showed several sears ON her
lace He dragged her into the alley. near
TWO wagons, threw her down. tried TO choke
her, and she then became inSenSible When
she revived She was in the alley and The man
Was there.
AZ This point the defence admitted that some
one had committed the offence. thus nakingi II
unnecessary tot details Ia he stated.
The prisoner Aas called ON "a stand up and
Miss smith. la reply 10 The question, is that
The person You saw under the lamp postg' said,
- That i The
ON osseNamination by Mr.. Newman She
stated that She went To the store for ale that
the prisoner SeiZrd her when She was at the
mouth Oi the alley, and Immediately on her
screaming he struck her. 4 diagram was eN-
hbIicd and witness pointed out her residence
the allcy. &c. Witness was aware that the,
man Was after her because the faster she
walked the faster he came. and She was Just
about To run when She was caught 1.-The wit
ness Was neatly attired in brown dress and
hat and grey coat, and was self-possessed in
IcmaI kablc de gree .-RCyl
OTHER TESTIMONY.
nT. Romulu> A Foster testified that he was
called la see Miss Smith on the 5th of last
month, and found that She had been injured.
Nitnc>S read from his notes a. tO the injuries,
describing them. aud teSliiying that he pro-
feSSioualN attended her four or i've DAYS.
Mrs. Josephine {. Smith testified 10 going TO
the dooT when her daughter rang tine bell and
seeing her condition She tainted Florence
was put to bed at once. and when witness re-
covered, Florence told her what had hap
pened.
Mrs Sarah A. Stafford testified that she was
AT Mrs. smiths house on the night of the
occurrence. anu heard her state To her mother
what had happened; saw that She had been I'M
juTed and her under-clothing was muddy and
bloody. ON cross examination witness testi-
fed that She undresSed and put Florence To
bed: her two inner garments were bloody.
Witness went into the alley next morning and
picked up a button attached to piece Of cloth
near the mouth of the alley. Redirect: There
were two pools If blood ia the alley, one near
the shafts of the wagon.
Sergeant Robert johnson testified that the
prisoner was brought TO the station ON the
5th Of November. and on the following morn
ing he took the prisoners shoes To the place
and found that they Ill the tracks. This was
about dH O'Clock; measured several finding
that the shoes lifted them. There were but
few tracks in the alley at the time. Oficer
Felt was With him at the time. On cross
examination witness said in four places
the shoes fitted the tracks: they were the
painest tracks in Buffers yard.
Ohlcer David NJ Fell corroborated the teSti-
nonk OF sergeant johnson, and in additic.
testified that he had a conversation with the
prisoner at 3lI 10th street northeast The pri.
soner said that he had not been i'm 10th street
and when they took him To Buffers house he
admitted that he had been there. On cross
examination, witness testified that there were
hye tracks which fitted the shoes-Oue i'm But
Ter s yard. witness examined the shoes now
on Jones and said he did not think that they
were the ones he had on then. He went 10
Butter house that night about 9ls O'Clock
Mheh Jones was arrested AT 81 10th street
there Was dance going on.
Redirect After he was locked up he told A
fellow prisoner that II il had not been for two
women he would not have been there and had
ihlthaed to gel on 10 the country I'm the MORN
ing. When arrested. the prisoner had ON a
sack coat of many colOrS with no two buttons
alike; IL had been black, but was faded and
,iele Was mud ON the arms and the right flap.
Witness identified the coat aud said the pan
falcons were also muddy
Lieut. Kelly and Officer Brock of the police,
lorce, and Ferdinand BOrgia were the next
Witnesses fpS ub N
Ia establish the chain of facts contained no
new Facts ci Importance in the case.