Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-15
CONVICTED OF ABpucr1os.

Charles Cook, who was a-reste some time
since for taking the young girl from this city
to Woodland and subsequently to Dixor, (, l
the purpose Of keeping her whereabouts from
the knowledge of her friends in this city, and
for lewd purposes, was t1ied yesterday before
Judge Clark in the Superior Court for the
crime, upon information fer SEDUCTION. This
win be remembered as the case IN which ths
victim was formerly an inmate Ct the Pro
tessant Orphan Asylum, but at tie tine OF
| her abduction was employed with family in
the upper portion of the city, and when
| brought back at the time of the arrest oi
| Cook, had become an Invalid from disease re.
sulting from the crime, by reason of which
| she has since been an invalid st the County
| Hospital.
The trial yesterday was conducted on the
part of the people by District Attorney
OF Stockton. At the conclusion OF the tesii-
mony for the people, motion was made by
defendants counsel fer a dismissal of the case,
| or that the jury be instructed to find a ver-
dict of not guilty, upon the ground that
in order to convict under the statute it
must be shown that the defendant took
the girl from under the care or protection
OF her father or guardian, whereas the testi-
mony in this case discloses the fact that L 1uis
Hansche, another young man now awaiting
trial for abduction, was the party that
actually took her from the place where her
father had procured her employment, and
had placed her in the Ogg House, on l. street,
for improper purposes; that when she had
been there day or two in company with
Hausche, the present defendant, Cook il
duced her to go with him to Woodland, as
before stated. Counsel argued that inducing
the girl to leave the Ogg House, to which
place Hansche had taken her, and where she
was when Cock found her, did not constitute,
under the statute, taking her from the care
or protection Of her father, and hence that
missed. The District Attorney took the
ground that the object OF the statute was to
prevent Just such crime as had been commit
ted in this case-the inducing or forcing
females to leave proper and honorable life
to enter one Of shame-and that although
the girl was not ii the actual care or custody
of the father at the time Cook took her away,
yet the girl was still, in the meaning of the
law, In the care Of the father as Id had not
reiiuquished it, and could not be deprived of
it under the intent Of the statute, ia such
manner as by the intervening wrongful act OF
a third person.
The question was argued at considerable
length before Judges Clark and benson, who
sat together as in bank, to hear and decide
the point, the jury for the time having been
withdrawn to another room. AT the conclu-
sion, the Court overruied the motion OF &C.
fense, upoa the ground. among other things.
that the part taken by Cook was Q portion of
the general act of inducing and conducting
the girl from q position of honor to one OF
s'lamf, the prevention of which crime was the
express object of the statute.
The jury was then recalled, and the trial
resumed, and upon conclusion q verdict Of
gully was almost Immediately rendered.
The defendants csunsel gave notice of mo-
ton for new trial, the hearing Of which was
set for tomorrow. The Iial OF Louis
Hansche, upon Information for abduction, in
connection with the same crime for which
Cook has been convicted, will take place next
Saturday. Iha crew which showed their in
terest in Cocks BEHALF by attendance at the
trial, and anxiously watching for the result OF
the proceedings, was motley and interest
ing one to look upon. Il was composed p,ir-
cipaIly Of pals.faced opium smokers, Second
and L-street sprigs, who apparently desired
to see whether they would be safe to engage
in like venture, and who are blooming into
FOUNDERS, cappers, bunko steerers, check
thieves and other kindred professions which
ere generally marked By small, STRIPPING
legged pants, with huge funnel-saaPed bot
toms which covers up the enti!e boot and
portion of the adjoining territory.