Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-22
THAT OUTRAGE.
Additional Details of the Affair-A Dere
hct Policeman Suspended.

Additional Details of the Affair-A Dere-
ict Policeman Suspended.
Yesterday the GLOBE gave an exclusive
account of an attempted rape upon child
seven years of age, but owing to the late
ness of the hour at which the information
was received, the report was lacking in
few minor particulars, the essential fea-
lures, however, being in the main correct.
The child upon whom the dastardly out
rage was attempted is the seven year old
daughter of man named Ahl!, residing at
No. ia DeSoto street, and the brute who
made the assault is one John Taylor, a
young man seventeen years of age, for
merly in the employ of Englebrecht, the
grocer, at the corner of Lafayette avenue
and Westminster street. Taylor decoyed
the child into barn and after attempting
the assault and being frightened off by her
screams, he went back to the store again.
The affair was afterwards reported to Of
icer Dillon, who put him under arrest and
for some unknown reason let him go
again and never reported it at headquar-
tiers. His conduct was considered most
reprehensible and yesterday he was be-
fore the mayor for an investigation, the
result being that he was ordered to arrest
the man or quit the force. Chief Clark
saw the child's mother yesterday and
learned that the wretch did not inflict any
injury upon her person. The force are
making every effort to take him into Gus
tody. He is about seventeen years old,
five feet four inches in height, wore a dark
plaid barred suit, dotted calico shirt,
black hat, and has black hair and small,
peculiar looking eyes.
518 MISSISSIPPI STREET, Aug. 81, 1888.
To the Editor of the Globe:
In this mornings edition of your paper
there appeared an article under your city
column headed ga Brutal Outrage" which
is full of inaccuracies, and 1 wish to cor
rect them.
In the first place the COURAGE" did not
take place on Mississippi street. 1t is
true run saloon there, and have done so
for years. It is also true that and my
son run grocery store on the corner of
Collins and Otsego streets, where the out
rage was committed. 1 have now located
the Outrage
This clerk that you in your article call
Swadsky assuming him to. be Swede,
though really an Irishman), is, when he
Se41o LIS I06I uduuo, OOnu 1dylOrs ne mas
been in my employ about fourteen days.
Yesterday afternoon about o'clock
this fiend tried to outrage a young
Swede girl about nine years old, not one of
my daughters; and. 1 have no doubt,
attempted to use the basest means for the
accomplishment of his purpose; he was
fortunately frustrated. A policeman had
been called, who took the young man in
charge, and his duty was to have held him
until an examination had been made, but
the Establishments of the mans talk caused
the conservator of the public peace, the
officer of eternal vigilance, to let him go.
A short while after there were policemen
enough there to have arrested half dozen
men, but the bird had flown. This man
with the star and club did not have sense
enough to know that it was his duty, his
Sl0orn duty, to have held that man until at
least an examination could be had. Yours
respectfully, THEODORE ENGELBRACHT.