Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-22
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
PURCHASING A POLICEMAN.

An Accused Man Seeks to Delay the Execu-
ton of q Warrant.
Philadelphia Record.
The charge of criminal assault recently
preferred against Charles II. Engel, of No.
14O2 Parrish street, by Ida V. Baight, is
now declared by the latter to be untrue
Miss Baight further states that the affida-
Wit upon which Engel was arrested was
not read to her before her signature was
affixed, and that she did not under.
stand the nature of the document she
was signing. The young woman's father
visited the city yesterday and took his
daughter to her home in Columbia
Engel stated yesterday that Miss Baight
had lived in his house for nearly year,
and during that time their relations had
been pleasant. On last Wednesday morn
ing they had some difficulty, in conse
quencc of which the young woman left the
house. She was taken to the Ninth dis
trict station hausc by policeman, whe
found her in the street, inSuffciently and
improperly clothed. The charge Of assault
was then preferred against Eugel, the girl
showing marks Of violence on her person
that had been received at the hands of the
accused. Shortly after this the girl re-
turned to the house, SO Engel states, ac'
companied by Sergeant Oliver Swank.
She was not inclined to press the case
after she had talked awhile with Engel
and the latter declares that lie then Offered
the policeman money if he would drop the
affair. No arrest was made at that time,
and later in the day the accused man says
he visited Sergeant Swank at his house anG
gave him SO making s. in all which the Off
Ger accepted with the promise that he
would ROt make an arrest upon the atfida
Wit. Engel says he promised the police
man SO more on the following day. This
last sum was not paid for some reason, anG
Oh Friday both Ensel and Miss Baight
were arrested, the money said to have
been paid to the policeman being returned
by him when lie came to make the arrest
At the station house it was stated last
evening that the ai1icavit was read to Mis-:
Baight before she signed it on Wednesday
and the denial is lookek upon rs a settle
ment of the difficulty. Engel states that
Miss Baight will return to the city to tes
tify when the case comes before the gran(
jury.
Tho Young Woman Denies.
In a letter to the Reading Eagle Miss
Baight says 81, the undersigned, dt
here write and request you to say, for me-
to the readers OF your paper, that thu
charge l made against Mr.. Charles H
EnSel, iron merchant Of Philadelphia, ant
which was so horl IDLY exaggerated III the
Philadelphia Times on Saturday, 10Th
inst, is entirely false. The real charge
which made was persuaded and in
duccd to make by several officers of the
law, or l would not have made the
charge l feel very sorry that such al
untruthful statement came before the
public. and hope and trust it may not in
juro Mr.. Engel or his daughter, either il
Il business or social manner"
1t is needless to say that Miss Baight's
friends in this city are much disgusted al
her conduct. Either she sought to black
mail Engel in the first instance or has nov
been bribed to abandon a righteous prose
cutiOn.