Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-26


According to lis story, she was apparently The
leader Of the gang. ne was st the time dressed /
in mems clothing. The others appeale to /
her for orders. which she gave with the de- |
cision of veteran commander. Il was
she who held the revolver 10 the watch
mans head and threatened to blow his
brains ont II he uttered a word. Davis init /
70 ates that mis- wife led him into crime, aud |
th at she has planned all the robberies in |
which he has taken part As Davis Is the |
recognised leader Of the gang, Mrs. Davis is |
the actual head. Mr.. Davis il about twenty |
seven years of age, and fairly good looking |
She is ) member OF wealthy Massachusetts |
family, and eloped from a boarding-school |
about eight years ago with Davis, who rep
resented to her that ne was a rich SOUTH |
erner. As matter of fact he had only been |
released a few months from prison, after |
serving out a term tor larceny. Learning
that the oficprs we're after him for some
newly committed crime, be and mis- family
fed 10 the West, and for time they were 10
Marietta, O., where Davis ran a sample
room, aad later they went to Chicago, where
they lived for several years. Davis, who was
living under an assumed name, ran a billiard
saloon. After leaving Chicago they wandered
about the West and South, working the conf
dence game. Finally they turned up in Wa
OOQO. OdNle Was lIch NlAhhAAs
heavily, but Mrs. Davis passed as q perez
cuted Christian; and was prominent in the
class meetings of the Methodist Church.
Finally she, toe, took TO drink, and gradually
drifted into evil ha bits Size retained, how
ever, her refined tastes, and it is supposed
she INDUCED in burglary that she might &C
cumulate money enough TO remove to some
strange place and there live in aristocratic
ease In the room where she was arrested
was 8 small bookcase filed with we'll selected
books, which showed m srks of frequent hand
ling, and on table an opened copy OF Lucille
lay face downward, where she had evidently
placed it to take up her revolver. The proof
against her is strong.
A Girls story of an Assault Upon Her by
q friest.
NEW YORK, June 23.-The Rev. Florence
Mccarthy and Miss Kate Dixon, who has
accused the priest of criminal assault, were
examined to-day in Justice Naeher's, court
in Brooklyn. Father Mccarthy sat directly
Opposite the witnesses chair, and for a time
looked isteadfastly at Miss Dixon, who was
directed to occupy it. Afterward, as she
proceeded with The details Of the alleged as
sault, he sat with bowed head. The girl
was not shaken in her recital by the cross
examination. She looked straight at the
priest as she spoke.
She testified that she went to live with him
in 1876. He took her from an orphan asy ,um
in FIity-second street in this city, where abe
had been put at her mothers death, when
she was three years old. She said he as
saulted her once before, when she was quite
voting.
ss"He treated me well, except when he was
drunk, and then be used 10 whip me-. gu
no money as wages from him until last No
vember, and then got $40. Ga the day OF
the assault got up al o'clock and called
on him to get up to say N ass. He came
back from the church about 9 O'clock. When
he came back he had breakfast, but he did
not say grace. Alter while he said he
wanted me TO go to the bank. put the SO
he gave me III the bank. l reached home
about IL 80 o'clock. This was Friday, June
9Th. l went to the basement door and he
came 10 the main trent door and called me.
1 went up TO the front door. After asking
me if l had put the money In the back, he
said: Hold on; fix these buttons. We were
alone. The front door was locked. The
back and front windows we're closed. Then
while L was fixing toe buttons he took me
| up in his arms, placed his hand over my
mouth and carried me into his bedroom. His
room is off the parlor on the same foor."
The girl then described her struggles and
| unwonled promises which she said the priest
made to her that no harm would come 10
her.
"He washed my face with bay ruu," she
continued, "and made me kpeeI down and
swear that would never tell anyone. You
can co. he said, TO some Dutch priest TO con.
| fession."
When auestioned about remaining in the
house after the alleged assault, she said; II
did not have any money. and thought l had
/ h., x1. II
would be up on THURSDAY | lett tie house
OF Tuesdays because on that day he again
assaultel me. l climbed ofe- the yard fence
and ran away to my sister in New York
After getting my clothes from the house, j
went 10 Bishop Goughin 90 Thursday, and
told him all that was done to me: ] then
went 10 Father Mccarthy for my money, and
told him that intended to have him ar
rested. He satd: go ahead one word from
me will fix ALL He paid me S., and / said
that if he did not pay me l would tell al
that was done. Then he said, 'Doa't co.
said, You are not fit to be priest; you are
too insulting"
At the conclusion of her testimony the
pri st's lawyer moved TO dismiss the com
plant, saying that the girl had made no out
! CRY. nor had che given Immediate inform atiou
| outside: The motion was opposed, and TIL
the justice denied it.
Father Mccarthy was then called 10 th,
stand. He said he was unwilling to testify
in the absence of his principal counsel, and
asked for an adjournment until he came
The justice ordered an &C journment unit
next Friday morning. There was a rumol
that Bishop Loughlin had suspended Fathe
Mccarthy. When the latter wa questioned
about it he said: "Ii.s lie. l have not beel
ordered not to officiate, and | will officste
until l am ordered not to do so by my superi
GRE. will say mass and preach to-morro,
and every Sunday of my life"