The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-19
A BOLD CRIME.

An Outrage ut Windsor, ILL.,, RivaIing the
Celebrated Emma Bond Case-A Young
Lady Taken from Her Fathers Regi.
dence by an Unknown Villain and
Hanged to a Tree-She Is Rescued in
Time TO Save Her Life-Her Story of the
Terrible Adventure = Several Theories
Regarding the Motive for the Crime.
WINDSOR, H., Feb. 15.-This village and
the surrounding country are wild with ex-
citement over bold outrage perpetrated
here Friday night. Miss Georgia AID
ridge, the daughter ola prominent and rep
Etable physician, was left at her home dur
ing the evening, her father and motherhav-
ing gone visiting some neighbors. About
ten o'clock she stepped to the door of her
residence to look for the return of her par
ents. The night was quite dark. While
the young lady was standing at the door
she was seized from behind, choked into in
sensibility, dragged into the back yard,
and strung up to tree with rope around
her neck. Her hands and limbs were tied
fast, and weights were attached to her
feet.
A few moments after the preparation of
the sensational crime Miss Aldridge's
brother returned. He found his sister sus-
pended and seemingly lifeless. He cut her
down, and after awhile she recovered con-
seriousness.
A note was found in the back yard which
stated that the act was done to ssget even"
with the young lady's father. There is no
clew to the perpetrator of the deed. The
father declares that to his knowledge he has
not an enemy on the EARTH and there are
rumors that the bold crime was instigated,
if not committed, by a young man whose
offers of marriage had been rejected by
Miss Aldridge.
Miss. Aldridge regained consciousness yes
terday noon. She had lain in a stupor for
thirty-six hours. She is still in a very pre-
carious condition, being completely ex-
hausted from the excitement and the nerv-
GUS shock. She suffers great pain in her
chest and back, and the attending ply
sicians do not know how the case viii ter
inmate.
She can not yet talk muck about the
assault and she has no remembrance of her
assailant except that he was a large
man. AS he spoke to her only in
whisper, she says, she can not possibly
know whether the voice was that of
any one she knew or not. After she
had been hanging a few moments, and
while the man was in the house probably
writing the note he left behind him., the
strings by which she was hanging broke
and she fell to the ground. The man
came back and strung her up to the
tree for the second time. She has no
idea how long she hung to the tree.
1t seemed to- her an age, she says. She
thinks she remembers hearing some one
who was whistling pass by the house, enter
the yard and cut her down. She can give
no clew that will be OF any service in de-
tecting the guilty man.
Many theories are advanced, but there is
only weak circumstantial evidence to sup
port them. Windsor people are still wild
with Indignation over the affair, and would
not hesitate to mob the guilty man were his
guilt once established. It is great disap-
pointment to the infuriated people that the
young woman herself can not furnish any
substantial evidence. The village will Of
fer a reward and the county and State will
be asked to add to it.