Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-23
A MISCREANT.
Attempted Assault Upon an Eleven
Year-OId Girl.

A little after 10 o'clock yesterday fore,
noon considerable commotion was created
in the vicinity of Sixth and streets by the
screams of little girl who came stagger-
ing from the alley, and fell fainting upon
the sidewalk on Sixth street between / and
j. She was recognized as the daughter Of
Patrick Kelly, who keeps saloon on
street, between Sixth and Seventh, and the
father being summoned, carried his
daughter home. 1t was soon learned from
the child, who is eleven years OF age, while
PLAYING in the alley she was seized by a
rough-looking man who, grasplng her
tightly by the throat and almost choking
her TO death, dragged or carried her into
the basement of an old building near by,
all the time threatening to kill
her if she made an cutlery Relaxing
his hold for an instant, for the purpose of
making his retreat secure, the girl says she
gave two or three screams. at which the
miscreant fed The child, although suf-
fering severely and frightened almost out of
her wits, made her way to the sidewalk,
where she was seized with a fainting fit and
fell. as stated The facts soon became
known, and in few minutes quite num-
officers arrived upon the scene, and made a
thorough search OF the locality for the
ruffian but no trace Of him could be found.
If some of those who were so Jealous
about capturing him had left the
immediate locality of the attempted out
rage and gone to the outskirts of the
city they might have had some reasonable
hope of encountering the fugitive, who had
been seen to run through the alley like q
scared deer. The little girl described the
fellow as being dressed in dark pants, a
black felt hat and a blush checkered
Jumper" and also said that he wore
dark mustache.
A few hours later the police arrested a
man in the plaza. dressed in blue overalls
and blue jumper, but the child said
promptly, on seeing him, that he was not
the man The affair caused a good deal of
excitement in the vicinity, and many per-
sons were heard to express the opinion
that, if the real culprit was caught, he
would never trouble the Courts with his
presence.
ANOTHER ARREST.
Late last evening Isaac Simmons, who is
invested with the authority of special Off
Ger, encountered, at Second and l. streets, a
man whom he suspicioned as being the
guilty one, and arrested him. He was
dressed in dark overalls and blue shirt
and wore black felt hat, which came very
near answering the description first given
by the girl, before she had fully recovered
from the effects of her fright He was
taken TO the stauOn-hOuse, and the child
was sent for. She at once and unhesitat-
ingly declared him to be the man that as
saulted her. Frank Swift, Jr., also identi-
fed him as the same individual whom he
detected recently while making an indecent
exposure in the presence Of some children
on Fifth street, and to whom he admins
tered sound booting-on thespot. The fell
low was recognized as a very old-timer
but one who had not heretofore
been caught in the commission of any
crime. HIS name is Raston, but he is
known as - Oregon jim" He denies the
slightest knowledge of the affair, and de
clares that he was in bed at the Interna-
tional Hotel at the time the attack was
made upon the little girl. Inquiry at the
hotel developed the fact that he is regis
tered there under the name of Carpenter.
The clerk says he went to bed about >
O clock in the morning, but thus far no.
body has assumed Il knowledge as to when
he got up.
Chief Jackson desires that all persons
who may have seen the man running away
from the place where the assault was made
Will call at the station-house and see if
they can recognize the party under arrest.