Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-14
A WOMAN OUTRAGED
In Eden Park, Cincinnati, by Farty
OF Rowdies-She is Torn from
Her Husband. who is Knocked
senseIess-Lynch Law
Wanted.

Cincinnati Enquirer, 18th: Eden park has
been for months the scene of ruffanism of the
worst character. Respectable people, accom-
panied by ladies, have been terrorized from
Its beautiful precincts after night-fali by the
presence OF gangs OF young roughs capable
OF almost any crime. The matter has at last
eliminated in a fragrant outrage. Mary
Moore, respectable colOred woman of TWEEN
ty, the wife OF Nathan Moore, VINO works for
the well-known Dir. Kerr, is the victim. She
tell straightforward story in a modest and
convincing manner. 1t was given to an En-
QRiTer reporter, who called for 1t last niuI,t
at her home, NO. 900 East oIxJn street, and
runs substantially as follows: About eleven
O'Clock last Saturday night she was returning
with her husband from visit to some friends,
and while coming along Gilbert avenue,
near the cut which leads into
the west end of Eden park, three men came
out of the Green Hill house and hailed them,
wanting to know what the HI they were
dong ont at tn time of night" Her hus-
band, not liking their looks. returned no an
swer, and was hurrying along, when three
others, who had come out of the same place
as the hrst three, ran up behind them, and
one OF the number picked up bowlder, with
which he struck the old man on the back of
the head, cutting fearful cash and knock
ing him senseless to the pavement Mrs.
Moore screamed for help, but no one else
being in sight the ruffians seized hold of her,
aud, holding her mouth to smother her cries,
dragged her along with them into the park
She says she struggled to get free and sue
ceeded IN screaming again, when one of the
brutes dealt her a blow in the face which
nearly stunned her. After they got her in
the park she states that two of them held
her down while three of them In succession
outraged her person. The others would, no
doubt, have also grati6ed their hellish lust In
a similar manner, she says, but that they ap-
peared to get frightened at something and
took to their heels, leaving her lying on the
ground. As soon as she recovered suf-
hclently to be able to move, she
left the park, and reaching the ave-
nue., got on board a street car and
made her way home. On arriving there
she found that her husband had also man.
aged TO get home, and had gone in search of
some neighbors to aid him in searching fer
her. Mrs. Moore appeared to be suffering
considerably from the Ill-treatment she had
received, her neck being all swollen, she
says, from the manner in which the wretches
had choked her. She complains that they
also beat her badly about the back and sides
in fact, TO give her own language, she says
''they used her worse than dog" She says
the young men were all white, and none OF
them more than twenty-five or twenty three
years OF age, and that she recognized two OF
them as parties she had frequently met on
the streets IN the neighborhood, but does not
know their names. Moore's injury from the
bowlder Is severe. although DR.. Kerr's FAM
lily being absent from the city, he was COM
PEELED to be at the latter's house, his post of
duty, last evening. There is no doubt that
this is one of the cases where, if the perpe-
traitors could be fully identified. little of
the short, sharp and quick justice that Judge
Lynch sometimes administers lover the
river" would be in place. This time it was
an influential colored mans wife, but Ia the
state of affairs that have existed in 'the
Garden" it might any day be the richestand
proudest maiden in the land. The crime is
as damnable in the one case as In the other,
though the excitement may not be SO great