The Ouachita telegraph., 1886-01-31
FRUSTRATED ATTEMPT AT
SEDUCTION.
A Drummer, A CONDUCTOR AND TWO
WOMEN IMPLICATED.
,Chn rsxur,lncr Arrested mud Jnilcl.


The city was very much excited
over an attempted abduction OF a young
uusophiscated woman who was on her
way home from visit to friends and
relatives residing in Claiborne parish.
The Vicksburg Shreveport and Pa
ciflc passenger train due here Saturday
night at 1856 o'clock was delayed ep
route aud arrived at the depot at a:sO
Sunday morning in charge of Conduc-
tor Whited. Several parties are im-
plicsted in this diabolical attempt at
tho ruin of virtuous woman, as will
he seen further. The first intimation
of the affair was conveyed through
postal card dropped iu the postofhce
Sunday morning. II was addressed to
the Shreveport Times and read:
CITY, January a. Editor: This
morninr coming in on the Vicksburg,
Shreveport and Pacific railroad, par
ty Of US noticed u little game. a coun.
try girl from Homer got on the train
at Arcadia and ststed that she was
going to Nacogdoches, Texas, and op
nearing Shreveport had her baggage
checked to the Texas and Pacific depot
After leaving Homer the girl was ap-
preached bya young whisky drum.
mer aud an old gray headed man ana
conductor, who by the way was only
freight conductCs, relieving the reg
ular conductor on coming IN from
Shreveport. The party, after exhaust.
ing every effort to introduce the giri
to their base wishes, got Fannie Roos,
q procuress of o house OF Ill iaMe OF
Shreveport, to assist them. The plot
was successful inasmuch as the girl,
Fannie Roos and another prostitute,
the young drummer, the conductor
and the gray headed man drove on IN
a hack, the girl evidently believing
that shs was going to the Texas ana
Pacific depot, instead OF which she was
going to-God only knows where.
These facts were reported TO a police
ltnan ut the station house. Not know
ing how he would do his duty, We
think it best to ask your assistance, as
it will certainly bear investigation.
We are leaving the city In hurry and
have not time to do more.
| [Sisnedl THREE GENTLEMEN.
The three gentlemen unknown to US
are entitled 10 our thanks for the In
formation conveyed, but it must bt
said, that notwithstanding they were
lin hurry to leave and could Ill adort
to lose any time, they were uninten
|ionally direlece in their duty. Unde
the circumstances they should bav'
Iinterposed in the girps behalf at al
hazards. A few words vigorously ap
piled, would have scattered the har
pies that famished for innocent blood
/, Seducers and their abe,tors, canno
stand the unquaking eye or tho stron
arm of the Just when it is stretched
protect the weak and unsuspectins
Work was begun at once on tn
case. and link ~ link the matter WE
traced and joined into whole. 1t We
discovered first that Officers Hici
and Hasgerty had got on to the cit
of the whole party and had reporte
the case to headquarters. SuDds
y evening E NJ. Austin, chief OF polio
i, sent !or Judge G. d. Hicks aud all
consultation warrant was issued I
the arrest of Richard d. Backarow al
! Fannie Roos, who were charged wi
wiIfully and forcibly abducting, sec
ting. etc., in house of i'll fame M
Inez Watkins. The bond was fiS
at $500.
Under this warrant Backarow '
arrested and placed in jail. Althou
bond was offered and would have b'
given readily, Backarow felt safer
closed in the parish jail.
.T The brief recital Of the Intended ,
tim. W no was saved life of in!ar
will be read with interest. In
lengthy interview, the young won
said in substance that she lived
Nacoe doches County, Tex, that
had been on a visit to friends and
iatives, residing on the Arkansas !
about twenty-five miles from Hon
She said:
was on my way home. l sta
an from home in a hack and was in CHI
&c ofthe driver who was a genilen
= w and who assisted me in buying
)u- ticket a; Arcadia. Besides me (
IN was q gentleman in the hack,
ora Backarow. Between Arcadia
Homer he placed his hands on my
" several times and said he had fallt
I'LL love with me. j told him / v
married woman and repolled
advances. / met Mr.. Backarow /
same car after ] got on the train.
Minden junction two women G