Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-11-21
NOVEMBER SESSIONS.
TIE WHEELS OF JUSTICE IN NOTION

M5nddy 1fslrnoo0- 0-COmmonwcalth w.
Frank kilchrist, rape. The defendant
was charged With having committed the
crime upon the person OF Lizzie McClar-
rem, at the city reservoir grounds, on the
nignt Of July Goth last.
The girl was called and she tostiii al that
ut the time Of the commission Of this act
she was between II and Is years of age.
Oa that night she met kilchrist and
Trucker Tamany Mt the reservoir ground;
they stripped her Of her clothing. taking oil
her shoes also kilchrist then threw her
down, and while Tamany held her
hands and ieet the former committed the
aot. VIM. MunrOe and VIM. Mullen were
also present and they and Tamauy also
outraged her :; they held their bands over
her mouth when sho cried murder ~
they s.:,s her there lntil o'clock in the
mOrnin. when they all then kit shc was
very weak Ss.l started for home, leaving
her shoe; and part Of her clothing behind
previous TO the commission Of the crime
kilchrist poured whisky down her throat
while TAmany held her they threat
ened to kill witness while giving her the
whisky during the night young man
named Wagner also came aud committed
the same act as the others.
CfOek-C X0mI00t1Ons
On cross examination the witness said
she stole away from hOme on tho evening
Of this affair at 5 O'Clock she went to the
Pennsylvania depot and saw Kilchrist.
Mullen and MunrOe Munroe walked away
with her, and Mullen aiterward walked
with her to st. JOseph's hospital, and
afterwards she went to the reservoir
grounds with Mullen and MuDrOe there
she met Kilchrist and Tamany, who had
the whisky when they undressed her sho
was under the Influence Ut liquor, bat she
tried to keep her clothing On ON tho
night before this affair the witness made
an engagement with MunrOe to 20 to the
to show her the water works she did not
her. Mullen said, Now. You can lay
there and die.''
Thomas Daily testified that no saw the
girl pass the Pennsylvania, depot Oh this
night. Mnllsn said he was going to take
her out aud asked Witucss to 20 along but
he refused witness saw kiichrist after
wards aud he admitted having been GRIM
inally intimate with tho girl he also said
that Wagner was al bad as the others, and
that he (Kichrist) and Tanaany got tho
whisky.
Mrs. McClarren the mother Of tho girl
testified to the bloody condition Of the bod
clothing whero the giii slept. The morn
ing she was covered with mud, blood, &c.
She was in bad condition aud said that
whisky had been poured into her and sho
was hurt on Monday she first told moro
particularly about tho affair. "r
The girls fxthar also testified to her
condition when she came homo upon that
morning she afterwards told him 90
Monday that she had bssn outraged.
DIs. X NJ. BOlenius aud Oliver Roland
were called and testified to the girls con-
dition when she was taken to the county
insane asylum. She was very violent,
threatening to kill herself and others.
Her physical condition showed the results
Of excessive intercourse. Having st. Vitus
dance, and in consequence weak minded,
she would, in the Opini)n Of the doctors,
be easily influenced. At the hospital tho
girl told IA straight story Of the crime com
Elttcd On her.
Evidencs Of she ,-oIsce.
Officer Daily testified that Kilchrist
told him if they would get Mullen he
would " squeal," aud if tho court would
be easy with him (Kilchrist) he would
" "squeal'
Chief Of Police Diechier cOrrObOratcd
Daily au,! also testified that they did not
arrest kilchrist for two weeks after this
affair and then only with great trouble.
The :: l,nmonwealth here closed
VIM. Monroe, who is also charged with
this offence, was tho first witness. He
testified that on this night he met Mullen
and the girl at Duke and Chestnut street
they asked him to 90 along; they walked
out Orange street to Plum, then to Gran:
street and to the reservoir witness turn
ed to go back and the girl caught him by
the sleeves and asked him to go along as
trey were going to have picnic w!fuess
laid his hand ON the reservoir fence and the
girl caught him and pushed him toward
the gate Mullen had gone in the girl
asked where the whisky was she had sent
for; Tamany aud Kilchr;st were there
then and the latter drew > small boss!e Of
whisky from his pocket: Mullen took it
and then the girl took it from him she
told all to turn their backs while she
drank she tnen told witness. Tamany
and Mullen to go away; she was With
kilchrist and she took OF some of her
clothing aud then laid down pulling Kill
christ with her Mullen afterwards went
over to the girl; witness did nothing and
soon went home; Wagner came after
wards but witness did nut see hin, 10 any.
thing no fOrcs was used with the girl and
she did not resist.
Tuesday noTniaJ.-ln the case vi com'th
vs. Frank kilchrist the defense called
Edward Wagner, who is also accused Of
this Offsnse. He testified tina. lie and
Mullen sent out to the reservoir ON this
night about II o'clock, but did not see
Kilchrist, hut saw Munros did not say to
Thomas McClarren. brother Of the girl,
that what he saw tho parties do to the
girl was horrible affair, and that had she
been his sister hc would have killed
them; but did say that it was horrible
and told Mullen that they ought to take
her home. o.. y
WIN. Munrue was recalled and he
denied bavisg told anyone that mark on
bis cheek was made by Lizzie McCiarren
biting him.
1t having been testified that Lizzie Nc
C.arren had several times bcen an inmate
OF tho "IIouse Of the Good Shepherd" in
Phiiadelphia. Rev. A. F. Kaul testified
that it wa, reformatOry institution.
Mrs. Mary Monroe testified that after
this affair the girls father told her to ask
his daughter where she liaal been 90 Sa.
urday night; She told witness she had
been to ST. Joseph's hospital, the rolling
mill aud the reservoir this was on Sunday
morning she was drinking vinegar and
said she had been drinking liquor the
girl had been around all afternoon and did
not complain that anything had been done
to her d; the parents of the girl told witness
that they had sent her to tho House OF