Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-05-22
4 HEROINE.
4 FOurteen-Year Old Girls Desperate
Encounter with Tramp.
Lebanon % Correspondence Cincinnati Com
mercial.

Lebanon % Correspondence Cincinnati Com
merclal.
A desperate struggle. which makes of
Miss Carrie Roberts a heroine, took
place at the residence ofG. III. Kitchen,
farmer living one mile this side of
Monroe, this county. Mr.. Kitchen is
well-to-do farmer, having no family
but bis wife, and the girl, Carrie Roberts,
is employed as domestic in his house.
hold. Mr.. and Mrs. Kitchen went to
Hamilton to attend to some business
matter, leaving the house in charge of
the girl Roberts. Some hired men
were working in the fields some dis
tance away from the house, but the
girl was the only person at home.
When Mr.. Kitchen and his wife had
been some time gone, the girl was at
tending to some duties up stairs, she
thought she heard noise in a room
below, and, coming to the top of the
stairway and looking down, she per-
ceived q strange and Unlocking man, of
the genus tramp, engaged in ransack-
ing bureau drawer in the sitting
room. The girl knew that there was q
large amount of money slowed away IN
tin box, which box was concealed in
this bureau. Besides the money, there
was also lot of jewelry, belonging to
family, In the same place. The brave
girls resolve was instantly taken, and
while the rObber was engaged in trans
ferring the valuables from the box to
his pockets he was astonlshed by the
child suddenly springing upon him
like tigress, fastening her hands
IN his hair, and endeavoring
to wrench the box from his clutches.
For moment he was almost dumb
founded, but he finally recovered him
self and began to try and release him
self from the girls hold. But this he
was unable to do, although he dragged
the game and plucky maiden through a
hallway into the dining-room. She still
held on to him, clinging so closely that
he was unable, strike and push her as
he would, to release himself. Withre-
markable coOlness and presence Of
mind, when this strange pair had reach
ed the diningrOom, the girl remember
ed that there was a revolver on the top
of the clock. For a moment she let
go her hold upon the tramp, and get
ting upon chair she succeeded in find
Ing the weapon, and commenced blaZ-
ing away without ceremony. The first
shot caught the robber Ill the hand, and
he dropped the treasure that he still
held. He then commenced to beat a
retreat, the girl still firing at him. Fl
nally he got into the yard, scaled the
garden fence and got away. From the
diningroom to the fence where he
climbed into the road, he left bloody
marks, showing that be was pretty badly
wounded. Carrie, after the departure
of the villain, did not swoon, but gath
cred up the money and jewelry, and
then going into the yard rang the dinner
bell. Presently the farm laborers came
in, and learning how affairs stood they
started in pursuit of the thief. Up to
this writing no clew leading to his iden-
tity has been discovered. Mr.. Kitchen
returned from Hamilton and was IN
Lebanon this afternoon. Your reporter
conversed with him, and was shown
long letter written by Miss Carrie to her
brother, since dinner time, describing
mlnutely the whole affair. This young
lady would have made good Amazo-
nian warrior. No effort will be spared
to bring the daring rascal who has per-
petrated this outrage to even severer
justice than he has already received.