Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-11
Another Outrage Case.

THE SERIOUS CHARGE BROUGHT BY ANNIE
BROWN AGAINST LEWIS HUBER.
Last night Officer Prather, of the Sth pre-
cinct, took into custody medle-aged, small.
sized man named Lewis Huber, on warrant
sworn out by respectable looking woman
named Annie Brown before Justice TAFT
charging MN with rape. He was put into a
cell in the station, and this morning came to
the POLICE Court in the black maria. The case
was called after the District cases had been
disposed OF, and Gen. Henkle appeared as his
counsel. Annie appears to be a welldspOsed
ana respectable woman, about twenty-five
O'Clock Tuesday night, at her house i'm Jackson
Hall alley, she was awakened by her brother.
VINO told her that man had called for her to
go to his house on Capitol Hill to attend a sick
woman. She consented to go, after hearing
his story. He was a stranger to her, and they
vent along to his house, on 18th, between East
about O'Clock. They entered the house and
he showed her to the kitchen. and seeing no
one, she asked where the sick woman was He
then said she was not there but had left the
house; that she was not in her right mind, and
was In The habit OF going away and roaming
about the streets, but that she would be back
go to bed i'll an adjoining room, show
bed bed an and Ii: lounge Ear and that she could
so, saying she had been asleep for about four
hours, and had rather wait sitting up. Some
further conversation followed, and he extin-
guished the lamp and seized her, and threw
her on the bed. She called out aloud. com
handing her to desist, SO that any one in the
house might hear, and had long struggle
with him, releasing herself at one time and
falling from the bed. He again caught her
up bodily and tore her clothes from her. and
She was too much exhausted to make further
resistance, and he accomplished his purpose:
and it was not until O'Clock that he released
her, when she went home and went to bed
SICK 81 and exhausted: She laid in bed until after
II O'Clock yesterday, when she dragged herself
to Capitol Hill, where she met the police who
directed her to Justice Taits for warrant
A lengthy cross examination followed by cOun-
sci Tor defence, but nothing new was elected
the complaining witness giving a clear and
direct account OF all that occurred, showing it
70 De a most outrageous case OF rape. ChaS.
Berry. the brother of Annie. who awakened
his sister to go with this man, fully cOrrObo-
rated her testimony. and recited how he as
sisted his sister to find the house where Huber
ElVed yesterday, and the manner in which
he acted, trying to bully witness and threaten
ing to whip him and have him arrested. He
aided him in getting a warrant and arreSting
Huber. He described the condition his sister
was in when she returned home. He went to
search OF Huber, and met him at the corner of
Sd and streets, and recognized him at once
as the man who called for his sister the night
before. His sister is a respectable woman and
takes in washing for living. Here the prose
cutiOn rested.
Huber is small-szed, nervous man, Prus-
sian, with wild looking black ewes. and does
not stand very fair in the community. His
counsel made statement that his client de-
MED the whole affair, but said ne advised him
not to make statement to the court as he de-
sired to. The court sent the case to the grand
jury, fixing the bonds at 5000.