Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-21
DASTARDLY OUTRAGE.
Fiendish Treatment of a Young
Girl at San Jose.
THE STORY TOLD BY THE VICTIM.
Arrest of a Man Identified by the
Girl as Her Assailant.
ESPECIAL By TELEGRAPH TO THE UNION

SAN JOSE, March 20th.-One of the mos
dastardly outrages that has ever taken plac,
| in this city occurred last evening, but did no
come to light until after the arrest of tn.
party identified as the one who committed
the crime, the arrest being made at 2 O'Clock
this morning. Yesterday evening a young
girl named Emma Clark, an orphan, who
| came few weeks ago from Petaluma, and
was stopping at DR.. Cochrane's, on Sixth
street, she being i'll and under the protection
and care of the doctors wife. Between {
and 6 o'clock yesterday evening she
WENT OUT FOR WALK,
And soon after took street car of the North
Side line and rode to the extreme end,
searching for the house of DIR. Stewart, the
Baptist minister, who she had started out to
visit. Arriving at the end of the liue she
alighted, and soon after passed a saloon kept
by Clifford Bros. One of the latter, Ben,
seeing that she was stranger, she says
accosted her and invited her to take drink.
This frightened her, and she hurried on, not
knowing where she was going. He followed
her short distance and asked her to accom-.
pany him to a house, and then turned back
fer few minutes but shortly after she
noticed that he was again following her. By
this time it was getting dark, and seeing a
bridge ahead-what is known as the Shore
bridge, at the crossing of the Coyote creek
on the Berryessa-she concluded to hide, and
ran under the bridge, not knowing what else
to do. She was hardly there when the man
was at her side. He had small can in his
hand, and after asking her to take drink
seized her by the collar and said, "If you
make any noise, or attempt TO shout, will
kill you," and repeated it. She struggled
and screamed, but he forced the liquid into
her mouth, and owing to her Ill health and
weakness she was unable to prevent it.
THE LAST SHE REcoLLEcTs
Is that he was unloosening her clothes.
When she came to, her first recollection was
that she was on the bank of creek liz a
place unknown to her, and she wandered to
the house of William Shore, a few hundred
feet from the bridge. The latter is in an un-
frequented locality. When she got to Mr..
Shores she was in her under-clothes, bare
footed and hatless, and dripping wet, showing
that she had been in the water. This was
about o'clock P. NJ, or two hours later than
she thinks she first reached the bridge. She
related her story in dazed way, and after
she had been provided with clothing Mr..
Shore came into the city and notified the
police Chief Haskell and officer Brown
went out and brought the girl in, and from
her description of the man concluded it was
Ben. Clifford, young man who has very
bad name in this city, owing to his arrests
heretofore on different charges He was ar
rested, and upon being brought before the
girl was Immediately and
POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED
As the assailant. An examination before a
physician proved that she had been raped.
The police found her clothes under the bridge,
and marks indicating that she had been
thrown into hole where there was nearly
five feet of water. It is supposed that the
current hoated her to shallow water few
feet below. Clifford was charged with rape,
and in default of 5000 bail was locked up.
He appears Indifferent, claims that she is
mistaken, and that he knows nothing about
the matter. The girl is highly esteemed by
DIR. Cochrane and the few who have formed
her acquaintance, and was to have been bap-
tiled in DR.. Stewards church to-day. Gifford's
examination is set for Wednesday next at 10
A. NJ. The citizens in the vicinity of Giffords
saloon are holding an indignation meeting to-
night.