Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-08-11
A DiSTiRDLY OUTRAGE,
The Terrible Crime nf 81
Tramp Pedd1er.
(Hagers'own Herald and Torch. !

oecaslOned in Tins town on Friday
afternoon last, by intelligence
reacni here that abo ut noon OF
the st,ue day a dastardly outrage
had been committed on little
nine, ear-old girl, named CERT
rude Viriz, q lighter Of Mr. Cor
nelius Viriz, a prominent and
wideIyknown citizen Of the
Sandy Hook District of this coun-
ty. Toe circumstances OF the
vlIlainous act are about as follows:
TIE little girl Gertrude started
from her home near Sandy Hook
to accompany a part of the way 10
that place her elder sister, Miss
Pearl ViriZ. After the two had
separated, and Gertrude was re-
turning home, she was met on the
road by tramp, who seized her
and dragged her into an adjoining
corn-field, where he violated her
person, inflicling quite serions in
jurieg upon her. The child al
tempted 10 make IN Dutcry but
he wretch prevented her from SD
doing by biting her lips, which
SHOW he marks of his brutality.
Sic was but a short distance from
hands working ia the field Of Mr..
jacob A. Miller, who, had she
been able to make IN outcry,
could have heard her and come to
her assistance 1t aas also within
ABOUT two hundred yards Of the
residences Of Justice Preston T..
Miller.
After the occurrence, the child
made Ter way towards Sandy
Hook, where she was met by a
coloted woman and taken to the
house Of Mr.. John II. Smith
whore she was seized with cOnvu-
siDn5, aud Wa for A time unable
10 give any statement Of the cause
of her condition. DR.. Ransom. of
Harper's Ferry, was speedily
summoned, and then, the part;c
ulars becoming known, an inien e
excitement was created III the
surrounding country, and men on
horseback and on foot turued Out
in search OF the perpeirator of the
outrage, and no nook or corner
was left UNEMPLOYED.
The perpetratOr OF the outrage,
alter a comprising his hellsh
purpose, passed through a culvert
under the canal, near the scene Of
his crime. and waded the Potion
&C to the Virginia shore, and from
thence made his way to Harper's
Ferry. The news of the crime
hsd reached that place, and vile
drinking in saloon he was ares
ted by Mr.. George Bancroft, and
with the aid of other citizens, and
without waiting for authority of
law, hurried across the river and
taken before Justice Preston +
Miller, who upon the evidence
before him commlttet him to jail
for the Gr9nd Jury Toe pri
or. vino appear q 10 be n man IF
% or 80 Wears of age, ave M
name ~ ,lues Carr. but beyond
this ne refused to give any furth r
account of himself
AT Sandy Hook ADD ia the sur.
Ioundlug c0uuiry the exciienen.
WAS Intense and the fact OF his be-
ing before the justice WA The sig
nal for the congrpga ion o. barge
and excited crowd OF citizens.
The justice fearing that violence
would be offered the prisoner if
taken from his Office in front,
secured the services Of Rev. j. G.
Butler, of Washington, who was
visiting at his house, to attract the
attention Of the excited crowd
outside, while he sent the prisoner
off from the rear, in charge OF
Messrs. F. Bateler, VIM. Lakiu
and Henry Scott, deputized Off
GERS who conveyed Carr to Garrott'.
station. and as the train came
along it was signalled and the
prisoner placed aboard, aud per-
mitted to go into the ladies' car
by himself the officers remaining
upon the rear platform parleying
it'll number of masked men
who were there for the purpose of
lynching the wretch. While ihi-
was going on, and while the train
was in motion, Carr jumped
through a window and escaped tn
the mountains. When this fact
became known intense excitement
was created not only in the vicin
ity of the occurrence, but here ia
Hagerstown, and expressions MOI
very complimentary to the officers
who had Carr in charge were free
ly INDUCED in.
Sunday night last, abou, 8
O'Clock, Carr was re-cap;ured at
Knoxville and brought Ia Htgers-
town on Monday morning by
Messrs. Reese Mann. Geo Mann,
Geo. Bancroft, Lincoln Reed,
Emery Nelson, Henry Berger,
VIM Nelson and Messrs
Epzakiah Tnhias William and