Daily globe., 1879-02-13
st. Louis Times-Journal. |

About l o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. a
man whose name, as was subsequently, learn
ed, was VIM. Grubb, farmer, living about
two miles from Columbia, ILL.,, arrived at the
Carondelet police station and stated that on
Monday morning his only daughter, about six
teea years old, had been ravished, while on her
way to school, by a negro named Jerry Col
Inns, who had worked for him about a wear,
Collins was described as being about five feet
eleven inches high and weighing about 200
pounds, with full whiskers and moustache,
After committing the outrage the negro fled
and 1T was supposed that he came to St.
Louis.
MIR, Grubb was very much affected and
SHED TEARS
copiously while relating the circumstances of
the outrage. He said he owned a farm which
was worth more than 100000, that he would
sacrifice every cent of it to 'hunt the niger to
hell, IT necessary, and that if forty officers
had him in charge, he would shoot him on
sight, IT he was strung for it in minute
afterward.
Officer Fil]ey, in charge at the Carondelet
station, suggested the propriety of telegraph
ing to headquarters, SO that officers up town
might be on the qui vive for the wretch, but
Mr. Grubb said: ''No; there was party al
ready gone up to town who would hunt high
and low for the miscreant, and he wouldn't give
them for all the detectives that st. Louis ever
possessed"
Sergernt Flotow states that two officers un-
der him, Messrs. Eckhardt and Abel, met Mr..
Grubb between and 4 o'clock on Tuesday
afternoon, and that he appeared somewhat
joyful, stating that the party which had come
up to st. Louis
HAD FOUND THE NEGRO
on Almond street and carried him off across
the river and started down the Short Line
railroad with him, Mr.. Grubb was in a hurry
to cross the ferry and get home by the Colum-
bla road, and did not have great deal to say
to the officers.
A zinles-Jouanal reporter went down to
Carondelet yesterday to investigate the mat
ter further and found Capt. Tom O'Neill evil
dently considerably puzzled about the affair.
1t was enshrouded in mystery. He hardly
knew what to think of it, but on the whole
was not inclined to put much faith or credence
in the story. On the other hand, Officer Filley,
III charge at the Carondelet station, is positive
that MIR. Grubb was neither intoxicated nor
insane. He talked perfectly rational, but
seemed to be laboring
UNDER STRONG EXCITEMENT,
which would be perfectly natural under the
when he left Carondelet, had the impression
that the negro was caught, and was in tho
hands of men who would attend to him.
A message was sent last evening over the
private wire of the Narrow Gauge railroad to
the station agent at Colum bia, asking if he had
heard or knew anything of the circumstances.
The reply came that neither he nor any one in
the town knew anything about the capture or
disposition of the negro; that if anything of
the kind had occurred some one would most
assuredly have heard of it.
pRORARTE TyNrH1Nn
Many of the farmers living in the vicinity of
Columbia do their trading in Carondelet, and
diligent inquiry was made by the reporter at
the mills and other places most frequented by
the farmers. There is report to the effect
that the negro Collins was caught by one of
the pursuing parties, and that they started for
Columbia with him Tuesday night, and that
the African has not been seen or heard of since.
Those who inquired Of the pursuing parties as
to what had become of Collins were told that
he would never outrage another woman, and
that the less said about the matter would be
the better. The impression is that the brute
was lynched and his body buried to save furth-
er expense and trouble.