Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-09-04
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THREE WHITE RoUGHs ARRESTED FoK oUrRaGrSe
CoLoREp WOMAN


THREE WHITE RoCGHs ARRESTED FOR oCrRAGrSs a
CoLoREp WOMAN
ohe OF the most audacious cases OF rape which
has occurred In this city for long time was rsr
petrated early yesterday morning by three white
men on cOlored woman in the northeast norton
OF the city. About O'Clock Sunday morning
Henrietta Robinson, a colored woman. 4s years
Old, who lives I'm South WASHINGTON but who had
lost her way in going home from the house OF a
friend, was hailed by some white men stsndiny
hy the track OF the Baltimore and Ohio road corr
ner or street and Delaware avenue n. e. and
askel Mhere she was going; she replied that she
That she had been lost They replied that they
rouid show her. She said she thought not and
asked II they knew where she lived. They repltod
yes, ana at once took hold OF her and led her 10 A
large vacant square, between North Captol street
ana tle railroad track and Delaware avenue and
y ana streets, and whcp about the center OF the
square threw her down, when she commenced 10
screan. one OF the ruflians placed his hand over
her mouth ana, holding her TO the ground. he ac-
compllshed his purpose. She kept up her screams
when she could wrench their hands from her
nipuIn ' anu gentleman nearing the outcry has
uly dressed himself and To Lieut. Austin,s sta.
ton and quickly recited what he had heard and
suspected. Lieut.. Austin at Cnce sent squad OF
men, who approached the place Indicated and
caught Maurice Connors with the woman and took
them both to the station-hoGse, where the woman
vas scarcely able In stand from exhaustion and
lalneneSS- She said 10y direction or Ccnn0rs. the
other two men had gone for a bottle nf whissev
ana were 10 return and have night Of IL. The
police then returned 10 the place. lust in time to
c1tch thc ether two men, named Patrick McNuity
=
ali locked up on the charge OF rape Connors Is a
bad character and has % zen oft N arrested by tho
police, and has given them much trouble in various
.ses OF assault upon them and in attempts 10
cue prisoners from them. He Is "a years old. ON.
Ger &c kaucher arrested hIm. McNulty IS % years
Oh and some years ago was convicted OF rape and
Sentenced To L n years in states prison, but was
partoned cut after serving two or three years.
Reynolds is l9 years Old, and this is tie first time
lie has ev er been arrested.
II THE POLICE COURT
this afternoon the prisoners were called up out Of
the cells ana charged with feloniously outraging
Henrietta Robinson. They pleaded mot guilty.
through their counsel, Mr.. w. p. Williamson. Mrs
Robinson testified she IS 43 years old AMI lives I'm
'.FTogtown." just south OF the Capitol. She posi-.
tFe!y Identified the defendants. She testified that
She left home Saturday evening to visit her brother
and On leavin; his house after dark, and not being
wei acquaiEt with the streets, she wandered
around Ghtl hearty o'clock yeStC rday morning.
when she passed the defendants. who were stand.
ing talking In "Swampoodle.n Connors asked her
where she WAS gong and said he would take her
home They then caught hold OF her and dragged
her u vacant square, which there is no build
| ing except a barn They dragged ser 10 the rasr
OF thh barn and f0rcibly threw her 10 the ground
SGe struggled aud screamed to make them release
har, hut C2nE0rs pat his hand over her mouth and
his purpose. The others did not. Connors sent
them after some whisky, and before they returned
the Officers arrived ana took Connors into custody
\ colored woman named Ellen Branch testified
liiat she iIeS IN Tie ncighbGrhoOd or this lot and
t an cry hour sunday morning she heard
70 the window, saw three men drag a woman to
III III COW Shtd- anu throw her Ia the ground Eliza
Bracket, WHIT woman. corroborated the STATE
ment OF the prece ling witness. Policemen Prafher
ana kaucher testified that they were not !fiei OF
Iile occurrence aId on arriving at the place found
CoRners setting On the ground holding the
woman. lie took them both to the stat!onhouse
and was then told by the woman that there wer,ss
TWO other men who had left the place TO get a
bottle OF whisky ANA returh TO make night OF n.
Inc oLlcefs returned 10 the spot and conceaIed
themselves ia the shadow OF the cow shed and
shortly NcNuty and Reynolds returned. nd were
En- under arrest, ana identified hy the woman.
lhe court heard no ttstimony for the defense.
HELD IL 5000 BONDS.
The case was sent 10 the grand Jury and the de.
PENDANTS were committed ia default OF 5000 BAH
each Sonners was arrested with crowd OF others
some years ago on a charge OF outraging Miss Mag.
gle Chaeny In this neig eighborhooi lie could moi he
identlued. and finally got of. McNulty was also
with Tom FitZ. who Killed Drager in his own store
at the corner OF ai ana streets several years ago.
District Govern memt Affairs.
Dr; I: $. Verdi. president OF the society for the
Garloaldl monument. to-day al invitation to
Ihc District Commissioners TO be present at the
festival TO take place at the Schuetzen park. ON
THURSDAY evening next The invitation was sc.
dress on the occasion.
tn The coroner's report for August shows as cases
where bodies have been viewed and inqlests held
In that tine among them three suicides.
~ Saturiay. a delegati9n consisting OF Messrs
nahan waited on the District Commissioners with
petition rulnerousy signed. asking for the erec-
tion OF hydrant on L, between lst and 2i streets
southN est The paper and the delegation were
referred TO Commissioner Lydecker, who promised
to give the matter the proper attention at once.
THE coRoNERs ANNUAL REPORT
has been submitted TO the Commissioners It
shows that he has been callei upon TO act in 567
caSeS-l6S white ana 399 colorci OF these there
were 3lS males and 2i9 females. There were also
IA cases OF suicide 9 homicide and % inanticide.
Maryland stems
It is said that there is a great deal OF smallpox
In iartord county Nd, especially In the neish6or.
hood or the packing houses.
Yesterday afternoon, from IL O'Clock to Z,
heavy rain visited the upper part OF Anne Arundel
county, lying between the Patuxent ana Patapsco
rivers, causing many OF the streams to overflow
their banks The terrific storm last evennS also
visited that section and the rain accomp1n,ed by
lightning, descended until near midnIght Both
the B. o: and. b. a. p. railroads were badly
washed IN places, but not 10 such an extent as to
Robert Harding, colored man, employed on the
Quaker Neck farm, in Kent county, died on wednes-
filled with Chestertown whisky.
A game or base ball, wherein the pastor OF the
churSl was pitcher for one side, ami the assistant
superintendent OF the school catcher the other,
attracted much attention at Kent county picnic
The peach-parers at Marshall's cannery, Ekton.
struck last week in consequence OF change ih
and the cnney n1e coninSes In operaon
When Mr. T. A. Potts, or Martinsburg, w. Va,
ieil under the cars at shenandoah junction, about
In charge By young man named Mestbrook, an
empi9ye OF the Baltimore and and, Ohio n I raiiroad n
but on his road TO Baltimore he was himself
crushed TO death under the train, when near
Washington.
The man who stole seven or eight horses from
the neighborhood OF Cumberland. Nd, and SOD
them to Me ssrs. Sproal, Smiley, Minor and other<
in the neg hborhood OF Pittsburg, Pa, has been at
last captured in Pennsylvania. His name is Robert
Roberts, living three miles from Millerstown. He
was locked up in jail for a hearing and TO awatC
the arrival OF reQuisltion papers. Roberts Is SAD
70 have stolen about &, 200 worth OF horses
The vivid lightning which attended the rain.
storm In baltimore last night put out the electyc
lights
Registration Of voters began In Baltimore today,
and closes on the 10th inst
Seventy ussan Hebrew refugees VIII settle -
Mlcdlesex county, Va, and nifty families wil ~
c0oniZed I'm Charles county, Md.
child was burned to death in Hampdenv0lAG9s :
Baltimore county, by the explosion Of a coal -
can, which she was using TO kfndle nre. -
Deaths In Baltimore last week, 16S; nmn11Dox
Is, OF which Is were OF children
The trouble with the Dublin police Se1u 60
tinues The appointment OF special o1lccU -
70 riotfng on the streets yesterday. Tho 0co -
fuse to return 70 duty unless the olsm1eDoo -
ara rain cfsfQ6