The daily gazette., 1882-02-27
FROM saturdays Asnee B&feA0m
ANOTHER BLACK FIEND.
A LeprOus Negro Outrages
a Little Girl Thirteen
Years Old.
THE CRIME COMMITTED ON
BISHOP SCOTS FARM.
The FieRd Captured After = Long
Chase.
sAFELY LODGED IN NEW CASTLE JAIL
-THRRATs OF LYNcHINa-
DETAILS OF THE SHOCK
ING CRIME.

-THRRATs OF LYNcHIN0-
DETAILS OF THE SHOCK
ING CRIME.
Encouraged, doubtless, by the &C.
quittal OF the negro, William Neal, on
the charge Of committing hollish
crime upon the person Of Mrs. Mar
garet Gosser, Of Blaekbird Hundred,
another black fiend, like a vulture,
steps forth and emulates him, not
apOn the person OF woman but upon
little child.
When the facts OF the crime became
known q vigilance committee was at
once formed and started in search Of
the foul fiend. After a search Of
many hours they succeeded in caotur-
ing him yesterday afternoon.
THE VICTIM.
The victim of the fJul deed Is . little
thirteen year cid daughter of Henry
Perce, who resides in q tenant house
on the faiIA If the venerable Bishop
Scott, near Odessa. The tieAd is bur
ly negro known by the name Cf James
Loaf, who was employed on one of the
adjoining farms.
THE CRIME COMMITTED.
On Thursday morning last the father
and mother Uf the victim, who are poor
people, aud obliged to eke out an txis-
tence by days WORK, after bidding tueir
daughter good bye and admonishing her
To br careful, left what was at that tune
thier happy hons for their respective
places OF labor. They departed IN full
confidence II the safety OF their ehll
dren, and little did they think at theiime
that a sliniy snake would crawl into
their happy home and sting their dsst
daughter with its full poison.
About A o',lJck III the # rrnoop, the
black tiend Called ut tie home, aud
upon knocking, was answered by the
daughter left IN charge. He Inquired
t I her father aud being that be WAS not
at home, put the same question Ia re-
gard ~ her mother aud received the
came answer.
Being apparently satisned that no one
was al home TO project the d, fsnceless
girl, he boldly stepped into tue house,
despite all efoltS If the daughter TO
prevent hun. She al once attempted to
give an alarm but was prevented from
doing so by the tiend clapplng one Of
hls hands over her mouth. Even If she
had been permitted to cry out, it would
have been of no avail, as the house W as
so situated that her cries would not
have been heard.
After having stopped the child's
cries he, despite her struggles, threw
her upon the floor and committed the
Rendish crime.
THE ESCAPE.
After having accomplished the crime
the negro fed, leaving his victim lying
upon the hyOr helpless. No one was
present to help her in her helplessness.
When her father returned from his
days labor she was sufficiently recovs
cred to relate the circumstances, and
give description of the foul villain.
VIGILANCE COMMITTEE.
The father almost dumbfounded and
staggering under the great blow,
started at once for Odessa, about 4
miles away, to give the alarm. Ar.
Tiving there he at once told hi, Gale OF
woe to party of men. AR Vigilant
party was at once formed aud after
procuring double team, attached to
a large wagon, they started in pursuit
and continued it until yesterday after
noon, when the villain was captured.
The party with the prisoner at once
started for the home of the child's
father, and upon arriving there the
victim was brought face TO face with
the captured man, and at once identi.
fed him as her assallant.
GUARDED.
The party with their prisoner at
once drove to Odessa, and there being
no other convenient place, the negro
was confined in the cellar of Paullin' q
hotel, and guarded by number OF
the men.
THREATS OF LYECHING
Threats of lynching the black fiend
we're freely made, and it even went SO
far that party was forming to do it,
but some of the members backed out.
Probably it might have been done
had it not been for the arrival of Ash
pennington, Deputy Sheriff, who took
charge of the prisoner. This morn
ing MIR. Pennington brought his
prisoner TO New Castle on the train
leaving Middletown at 1107.
The victim is suffering greatly and
is not expected TO live.
This is the third crime of the kind
that has occurred in that section of
the county within few years, two of
the perpetrators being hanged and
the third, (NeaD, being acquitted.
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