Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-01
A TERRIBLE CRIME
Gang Of Humans the Onsnders-One OF
tho Gang gArresSed-Warrants for the
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"A Gang Of Humans the Onsnders-One OF
tho Gang gArresccd-WaFrants for the
Arrest OF Others.
On Saturday night and Sunday morn.
ing most horrible crime was perpetrsted
in tho grove adjoining the city reservoirs.
A gang of six or eight young men enticed
simple minded girl named Lizzie Nc
Clarren, aged II years, belonging to a
respectable family, and after making her
drunk, stripped and outraged her, detain-
ing her until 3 O'Clock Sunday morning,
and sending her home nearly naked and
more dead than alive.
Her hat, shoes, skirts and other portions
Of her clothing were found in the reservoir
grounds Sunday morning by some of the
hands connected with the waterwOrks, but
they did not know to whom they belong
ed. Miss McCiarren, after reaching home,
was SO completely exhausted and pros
tratcd that for many hours she could give
ne rational account of what had happened.
She finally told ler family that she had
been assaulted and abused by a gang Of
six or eight young men, as above stated,
but the only ones whose names she could
remember were William Mullen, aged
about 25 years, and William Monroe,
both wOrkmen in the Penn iron
works. The girls father, John McClarren,
yesterday made complaint against them.
and warrants for their arrest were issued
by Alderman Samson. and placed in OH
Ger Daily's hands The officer went to the
Penn works last night to arrest them.
Mullen. on seeing the officer quit work and
fled. He was chased through the shops
and would have been captured had not 4
boy named Tangert opened the outside
gates and let him ESCAPE. He
had on him only his pantalOOns
and 4 gauZe shirt, such as puddlers
use when at work. Officer Daily finding
that Mullen boarded at the Widow Al
brights, on Chestnut above Plum, went
there 10 watch and after a while was re-
waried by seeing his man come along.
The officer was partly hidden in projec-
tiOn of the houses, but Mullen was look
ing out sharply and saw him when he got
near the house. lie Immediately started
10 lun down the alley aside his boarding
hOuseintO the yard, and thence through it
aud over Z couple of fences into Fulton
street. The officer followed in hot pur-
suit, but in vaultiDg over the fence into
Fulton street his toe caught on tho fence
and he WAS thrown down. lie recovered
himself at once and finding his chase had
got too tar away to be come up with he
fired shot after him as he disappeared
in the darkness
Officer Daily afterwards arrested WIN.
Monroe and locked him up in the station
house. lie acknowledges that he was ono
of tho gang. Frank Kilchrist and Daniel
Tamany are also said to bc implicated and
warrants for their arrest have been issued.
1t has not yet been ascertained who else
participated in the crime.
Ever since the outrage to wl,icl, she was
subjected, Lizzie McClarrcn has been in a
terrible condition. As she recovered from
her physical prOstration her mental ex-
citement increased, and she became so
violently insane that it was deemed best
to send her to the county hospital, where
she is now confined, a raving maniac.
summer Leisure.