The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-12-03
CRIMINAL CALENDAR.
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Tetributlon In the Sulphur Springs
Tragedy Partially Heted Out.
ONE OF THE MURDERERs HUNG.
A Brutal Rape Case on Trial at shsr.
mar With
THE DEFENDANT IN DIRE DANGER.
hnrdereus heXieans Made Away with
Near San onio- Howard Sullivan
2rsg fora BeRstiy Crims-A
shesting at Dance.
ANOTHER MURDER IN ARKANSAS.
4 Rape Case Mt sherman.

SHERMAN, Dec. a. ISpecal.l - The
day yesterday was exhausted in obtain
ing q jury in the Prentice rape case and
in partly examining one witness. This
10 the case In which Nancy Harris
charges Prentice with having outraged
hcr on the night of April 30. In Denison.
Nancy Harris and John Harris, who
were Cousins, both uneducated country
people, left their homo near White
Mound, in this county, for the purpose
oi going to the Nation TO ne married.
Arriving at Denison at about
midnight they stopped at tho
depot to await train going
north to take them into the nation
While waiting for the train Ed Prentice
and j. Chambers became acquainted
with their mission, and Prentice repre-
senting himsolf to the unsophistlcated
couple rs an officer, informed them that
ii they attempted to go to the nation, ho
would arrest them, and that his duty
was TO arrest themJ anyhow, but that If
tho man, John Harris, who was little
more thana full grown boy, would go 70
sherman and procure license and ro-
turn 70 Denison and get married. it
would bo all right, and that he would
carry the girl to hotel to remain
until he returned. BY threats
of arresting them. the man was induced
10 start for Sherman TO procure tho
license, and the girl, aged l6 years, was
left with Prentice to take to hotel.
Harris walked to Sherman in the night.
procured the license and returned to
Denison. In the meantime Prentice
started off with the girl and walked her
around until at last they brought up In
a lumber yard, whore, Notwithstanding
her crying and protesting, he forclbly
consummated his hellish design. On
the arrival of her atfianced she informed
him OF what had occurred; he, notwith-
standing, married her at once. Cham
bers is charged with being an access
sorry before and after the fact,
The girl Nancy Harris testified to the
facts ~ above, and that when Prentice
let her 80 after accomplishing his do
| signs that she met mp with Chambers in
about twenty-five steps from where the
outrage was committed, but that he of
fered her no irdignitics, but carried her
to "A boarding-house, whero they were
refused admittance; that then they
started toward the depot, and ho put
her in charge of Mr.. Shelton; that she
did not inform Mr.. Shelton OF what had
happened until asked by him. She gave
as reason for not doing 40 that she was
stranger, and she would not have said
a ,ything TO him about II II he had
not questioned her, but that IL she
had met any one. she was acquainted
with, she would have informed them.
The defense mainly relies ON endeavor-
ing to show that the point at which the
rape Is said to have been committed is
Within hearing distance OF two saloons
that are kept open all night, and that
her cries could not have been very loud
or they would have been heard
The Baltimore & Ohio telegraph COM
pany, 1t is expected, will be In operation
here In about fifteen days. II Is to be
hoped We will then have better service,
as this special was taken TO the Western
Union last night AZ S;45, and the Office
was closed.