The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-09-19
OUTRAGED INNOCENCE.
Frank Wray's Crime.
HIS Arrest and Confinement In the
County Jail--.Waifs OF Wiekedness.
A C0wARDLY CRIME.


ble-in Muscatine Yesterday, there has
been brought to light one of the foulest
and most fiendish and cowardly crimes
that has been chronicled in Rock Island
county for some time. The outrage was
perpetrated on the sixth day of last May,
in Drury, by Frank Wray, who is noted
in the lower end of the county for his
brutal instincts and treachery, but the
facts in the case were not fully obtained
until short time ago. The particulars
of the crime are these:
The scoundrel Wray managed to entice
Ida B. Garvin, the ten year old daughter
of MI and Mrs. Peter Garvin into the
woods north of Drury, and getting her
out of the reach of assistance, compelled
her to enter an old shanty. where he
| choked her until she was nearly dead,
and Notwithstanding the little ones APP
peals for release and painful cries, accom-
plished purpose that was prompted only
by the instincts of Satan. He then choked
her &gain and told her that should she
reveal anything that had occurred he
would kill her upon sight. The girl was
then allowed to return home, and it
being late, the mothers suspicious
of the terrible crime her daughter had
been subjected to, were not aroused un>
til the following morning, when she was
Mortified to find the little ones clothes
torn and streaked with blood. The anxN
ious mother questioned the child, but
could get nothing from her of the reason
OF the condition of her clothes. People
in the village were generally afraid of
Wray, who lived the life of a sort of ban
dit king among them, and the child,
knowing this, and being influenced by his
manner of treating her when she was al
his mercy, would not reveal the par:icu-
lars of the outrage of which she was the
victim.
4 The mother was persistent, however,
and little by little she coaxed the matter
out of the child, but it was not until d
few days since that she succeeded in
gaining the full story Wray had in the
, meantime removed to Muscatine, Iowa
, h.,t nf ha in hot "a
, the county had the moral courage to &c
over and arrest him, owing to the reputa'
/ ton he bore Finally Ar Garvn wrote
to Constable Eckhart, of this city, enc
, Yesterday that official went to Muscatine
arrested the brute, and took him tx
: Drury, where he was tried before Squire
Underwood to whom he made full con
| fession of his crime. and by whom he wa:
held in bonds of $500 for appearance,
J at the next term of the circuit court. Las
night Marshal Eckhart lodged his prIs
oner safely In the county Jail. A grea
deal of Indignation has been shown owe
} the affair, and there is talk of empannel
ing special grand jury in order that thu
case may be tried at the present term o
court To Marshal Eckhart is certainly
due q great deal of praise for the determ
e nation shown in bringing the demon Il
r justice,
Wray is about 90 years of age, and ha
= lived in Drury township all his life. 1t i
said he came into this world with an ev,
= erlasting stain upon his character, bein!
I born in one of the notorious disrep
q utable houses which existed in the lowe
e end of the county, twenty five years ago
BITS OF wICKEDNEss.
Before Justice Cooke yesterday after
noon John Riess was fined $6 and costs TO
i, breach of the peace on warrant swor
= out by Mrs Woelin, neighbor. Tn
i court suspended the fine, and upon pay
ment of the costs the defendant was re
r leased This morning Mrs. Woelin pre-
!. ferred second charge, and Officer Brcn
n nan escorted Riess into the august pres
U ence of the squire second time. Thi
time he was made to pay his fine, but n
> sooner was this settled until thir
q charge of the same offense was entere
q by the same plaintiff. and Riess was hel
q in bail of 800 to keep the peace fo
twelve months, and went to Jail.
Chas Lee, of Ham pton, was taking rid
t up Moline avenue yesterday afternoon. II
C was full, and so was a fellow who was !
the vehicle with him. As usual the
d were making the horse shoulder their ow
: misdoings, but the animal got the best c
them Lee was thrown from the buggy
= and Officer Cary arrived in time to as
o sist him to the cooler, where he was care
e for. The other fellow escaped. Lee pal
e a fine of So and costs in the police coul
z this morning.
$ This morning Thomas Hayes, of Nc
: Gregor. Iowa. was arrested by Marshs
g Eckhart for stealing an, overcoat from
e travelling man named Harry FritSch, o
the Flying Dutchman" train whic
came down last night. Hayes was take
before Magistrate Bennett this mornin,
/, and held to answer the charge at the mex
d term of the circuit court in bail of 500