The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-09-20
WORSE THAN BRUTES.
FOurtee, Eiencs Who OUTRAGED a
Seventeen-Year-CiG Girl
Saturday.

4 dispatch. fro,a Nircenres, Indiana,
bearing date OF Yesterday, say: Tie i..csi
inhumam and brutal crime THAI WAS eve.
ciiro..cltd las jus; been brought {. ii:..i-
case ia which slrikingl: handsome.
Girl a scye..letn years Is co;a;ciie,. L. sab
iilil L. the brutal lust Of iourie, n .ieu,l>.
The Gt;ail, are - fellows: L,,st nici.t ri
midnight this cir! arrived in this city ur!
The Paris * baEvilie train, the train being
>e:eral l."Urs hehin,: ti!.e. She attracted
attention ~ once, - her manner was hes
iiatin. and frightened. Dep; Policeman
Ryan noticing ,he>. things, asked her
where size WAS going, 20 Which She replied,
NO where ana breaking into tea.s told
him her terrible experience. Nj. Ran
II once procured Il rC0m for her ri ll,e
Union H,p", hotel, ana In every WAY con-
;ribuied 10 her comfort. This morning Il
reporter called al the hotel and obtained
an interview with her. she was lying 90.
the bed, Suffering intensely ircri Ter brutal
treatment, and presented =
MOST PfTIanIE SPECTACLE.
She is very handsome girl of medium
size, kind blue eyes and an abundance oi
dark brown hair, and speaks with inteiii-
gence. Tier statement, during which she
wept almost continuously, was a fol
lows:
''Mv name j. Ada Nangram and am
seventeen wears o! age. l was born in
White county, III. When ten years OF
age. nv parents removed 20 Noun; Yer
non, III. Shortly afterwards they died,
tiyes. | began to earn Twin. as do
- -
November last when / went 10 Lawrence
vile, Iii. and worked, i'm the house OF JAS.
4. Dickerson, county clerk OF Lawrence
county. i short time ago | became ac-
quainted with three young men. Last
Thursday these three men induced nie To
take walk with them into the woods.
and when We had reached the river bottom
a few miles from Lawrenccvi!ie, VIC were
Joined by eleven mere young mer. ali OF
Lawrenceville. They then made insulting
propositions TO me, and finally compelled
me 10 submit to their base designs. All
that day and all day yesterday ! Was kept
in the woods hy these fourteen men, all of
whom had intercourse with me. Ipiealed
with them 10 release me from my suffer-
ings, ba; without avail They informed
me cou!d not &c until they were salts
fed. While
EEDEAvoRINCi To ESCAPE
from their clutches ms clothes were torn
from me and my limbs were badly bruised
Finally, after two days Of agony, / was
taken to the train last night by three Of
the young fellows and thrust into the car
and warned You had better not give Us
away j alighted from the train in this
city so weak / could scarcely stand up;
and an officer, seeing me alone, inquired
where / wanted to go. i told him my
story and he procured lodging for me.
Where will go now know not, as have
neither relatives nor friends. intend To
do all in my power to prosecute those
fourteen men for SO brutally outraSing me.
This ended the interview, during which
she seemed overwhelmed with grief as she
recited the horrible details. The matter
is not vet known to our citizens, but will
cause such Indignation that
it will be thoroughly sifted and the guilty
parties brought to justice.