The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-02-15
A YOUTHFUL RAVISHER.
A Little Girl Only Eight Years
Of Age q Victim Of
His Lust.
She Relates Her Wrongs, and the
Brute is Partially Punish
ed for HIs Ccim3.

A Bszo reporie. this morning met I
een,'ensn from Pilot Grove, Cope
county. Who related the p,ri,ca'srs OF q
c,-e Of ravi.hinx thu. &C .urrsd ,boat twS
md oae-hslf miles from that place, the
latter part Of lest week. ihst hss bu, f,w
parallels in any camuunity. The "A air
ns. no, been given much Publicity, owing
10 the fact that ths friend- of the injured
psr,y did not care To cast . stain upon the
young life ,hu woull follow her to he's
dying das. In "r.ier u screen Ter ~ much
~ pJssibls, the Bazp,. tao, mis-
THE VICTIMS NAME,
but only wishes Il Gould paint in blsckel
letters the cognomen Of him Who j. de-
serving of the s~verest punishment posi-
be 10 IL 6ici upon the bsse-t Of criminals.
The particulars are - follows:
Tie victim i the daughter Of iarmes
and i. only eight ys.rs Of sg'. ani . young
German named Wiener, aged between ses.
rnieen aud eighteen years, i tire party Who
committed the deed. II seems that the
parenis Of these parties re-ide on neighbor.
ing fArms, end the little girl and her brutal
a-sailani were both attendants At NJ.
Vernon school; end, such being the csse,
they were compelled TO travel the came
road Ou the evening
THE CRIME WAS COMMITTED
. brother If the girl became involved in
difficult: in ih. highway with . school,
m,,e. and - they remained to parley,
Wemer and the little g,rl walked On
ahead. After having proceeded soms dis
lance, and while passing through thick
woods. the child Wa s<iaed. By the
young scoun.irel and taken s,m.
list :nce from the road, where
she US brutality ss~auiied and Com
p~l'ed to snhmit to hi. Lust, although enc
cried bitterly and begged pi,eous'y Tor him
to desist. After accomplishing hi- purpO-
the h~llion left his victim, and il va with
great difficulty that she reached her home
Immediately upon her arrival she
RELATED THE cIacUN>rA>cE
to her parent. aud their iniign .,ion knew
no bounds. He. father nj once conveyed
her to the spot where the deed hsd b-en
committed. aid found there every evidesc-
Of the s,ruRg'e that his daughter ssii had
taken place. She Ma then removed To her
hon., and the discovery w.s made tina, she
~as seriously in jnrei. The father de-
'ermined upon vense .ncr. bu. did no, care
10 make the affair sny more public than
possible; bot il .oon became noised around
the neishborho1d, and the excitement ran
high.
The day follow ing holy Of imProv:sed
regulators caliei At the re.ideare of W~mer,
senior, and the
eN WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY,
and thra-hed until life IA. sell nigh ex-
:inc', and il ~ no docb, his age was tie
nnls thing that saved him from deserved
death.
The elder Wemer possesses anything bui
. favorable character in the community,
having AZ dia.r-b, times b.en in the
clutches Of the Law. lie attempted TO con-
done the efen-e OF his son. and for 20 dninx
received number Of l,-he. over his tack,
until ne begged for mercs.
The case IL one q the bl.cke.t that hs.
ever transp,red in Cooper coun'y. aud ,hr
only wonder is ihst i; did not wind up with
. hanging bce.