The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-01
RAMPANT ROUGHS.
A Gang of TOughs Tear Down Fences
and Gates in the Upper Part of the
City-..A Social Six SOiree i'm
Which Two Milan Girls
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A gang of roughs ran wild in the upper
part of the city Saturday night. They
seem to have been a drunken mob whose
delight it was to destroy the property of
the citizens of Moline avenue and the
bluff region. A panel of Mr.. George
Wagner's handsome new iron railing
fence was torn from its place in the stone
coping, and broken in two lengthwise so
that it can not be repaired, aud then hurl-
ed into the street. 1t will cost at least
$l5 to replace this fence. From here
the mob seems to have gone up Elm street
and at Huber's brewery they tore up the
steps and destroyed other property. At
Kit Atkinson's place they wrenched a
gate off the hinges and threw it into the
street At Mr.. Highs they did the same.
At Mr.. o. J. Dmick's place they pulled
down six or eight panels of fence and at
various other places boxes were found in
the streets and other misieeds were no,
ticeable 1t is said also that shots were
heard in the neighborhood where the
above wanton destruction of property was
perpetrated.
No arrests were made, and the fellows
who committed the outrage will probably
escape. The leading question among the
people whose property suffered is where
was the policeman upon whose beat all
this work was done? 1t seems strange
that crowd of drunken fellows-for there
must have been crowd of them. as no
one man would 60 about tearing things up
10 that way-could run rampant the way
they did and not be seen by policeman
any place on his beat
The people of the neighborhood in which
the outrage occurred are naturally very
much chagrined Mr.. Dimick says that
he will give $25 for the arrest and cons
viction of the parties who tore down bis
fence. A little wholesome law is what the
| toughs of this town need and if Mr. Dim
lex gets hold on them they will get it,
and no mistake.
A disgusting rape case was up before
Justice Chopper today for preliminary
hearing 1t seems that on Saturday ey-
ening two young girls, about II years old
each, named Linnie Mead and Tina
Blomquist, came in from Milan to attend
the ball of the Social Six at Armory hall.
They danced till along toward morning,
and during the night they made the &c,
quaintanCe of Il quartctte of the socially
inclined young men namely; Mike Cor
ken, Robt. Evans, Frank Curley and
Tod" Gray. AS the time approached for
the breaking up of the ball the two silly
Misses who had come without escorts and
made promiscuOus acquaintance realized
that they had no way to get home. Some
how or another the aforementioned young
men discovered the fact and at once set
about arranging means for them to get
home-as they thought, but the purpose
of the fellows will be made plain further
along.
The girls were placed in hack driven
by the well known Tod" Gray, and after
being driven around town for q
while they were taken TO the
Social Six club room on the alley between
First and Second avenues on Sixteenth
street the girls say for the purpose of get.
ting warm and here one of them was out.
ragged and the other narrowly escaped The
same fate. The balance of the story i:
best told perhaps by the testimony Of TIC
two girls in count.
When the case came up for hearing
today before Justice Chopper, States AT
torney Entrikin and ex,States Attorney
Parmenter appeared on behalf Of
the people and Major Beardsley
and Pat O'Mara for the defendants
A motley crowd entered the Office of The
Justice and the room soon became almost
suffocating, and the hearing was adjourn
ed to the circuit court room in the court
house. The first witness placed on Tho
stand was Tina BlOmquist. Her home il
in Moline, but she is at present living will
the Mead family in Milan. She testifc(
to coming to this city with Linnie Mead
to attend the ball, and of making the ac
quaintance of the defendants, of getting
into the hack, and of finally landing il
the room. She said that after herself anC
Linnic got into the Social Six club room
they removed their wrappings and sa
down near the stove. That soon Corker
grasped Linnie and threw her on u lounge
and attempted liberties which the girl re-
PEELED. She heard voices in another room
and got up to see what the matter was
and as she opened door someone spi
tobacco juice into her face. That ther
Evans came into the room and seized he
by the waist and tried to throw her down
She got away from him and ran down tn,
stairway As she left she saw Linnit
still lying upon the lounge ant
Corken still holding her down ant
another fellow holding her feet. T;ni
run to the Rock Island house Office aut
asked for a policeman, and Mr. Pet
Bloom, the night clerk telephoned 70
the police, and soon Deputy Marsha
Brennan and Officer Metsch came, ant
she went with them to the room ant
found 1t deserted. She then went TO tn
J police station and the officers soon had thu
fellows arrested.
, The testimony of Linnie corroborateC
that of Tina as to the most importan
points, and she sWore that she had beCl