Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-03
HELD ON SUSPICION.
Joseph Cline Arrested for Crime Cor
mitted in YOlo County.

Joseph Cline Arrested for a Crime Com
mitted in Yolo County.
On the 4th of June of last year the
little town of Winters, Yolo county, was
the scene of most brutal assault COM
mitted by two men upon young lady
named Lizzie Waughtel of that place, dur
ing the absence of the other members of
the family. The victim was found in the
afternoon tied and gagged, and the village
and surrounding country was at once
thrown into fever of excitement and in
dignation. Armed bodies of men secured
the country in all directions, and the
search was pursued vigorously for months.
Several persons were arrested from time to
time on suspicion of being implicated in
the crime but all were discharged. The
young lady afterward married, and for
some months past nothing has been heard
OF the crime. According to the Woodland
Nal OF yesterday, however, couple of
arrests were recently made in this city, and
one of the parties is strongly suspicioned of
being guilty.
The Mail says that about week ago a
private detective of this city Swallowed 8
man suspected of some petty crime. He
became acquainted with the suspect, and
in the course of day or two was startled
to hear the man commence to talk of the
Winters crime. 1t was evident the man
knew what he was talking about, so he was
arrested. and on Thursday last was placed
i'll the Yolo county Jail. He said he had no
connection with the crime. but knew the
| men, and described them to the officers.
He said they had confessed to him that
| they committed the foul deed So accu-
| rately did the prisoner Whose name is Jas.
SWAMI describe the two men, that the de-
tective had no difficulty in locating them at
Sacramento. They were stopping at hotel
called the Merchants Exchange, and as
| they did not appear during the day the de-
tective left asking the clerk to keep an
eye on the blankets of the two men. Pretty
| soon tie clerk sent a message that one OF
| the men had secured his blankets and
| started for Nevada. The Office started in
pursuit, discovered that the clerk had made
! a mistake and returned, only to find that
both men had left in the meantime.
Ali day Monday the officer searched and
| at last found one of the men asleep at the
New William Tell House on ] street. The
| man, who gave the name of Joseph Cline,
| was at once arrested. He said he was in
| nocent of the crime, but admitted that he
and his partner were near Winters at the
time of the outrage. He said they had
| first worked on the ranch of Godfrey Ru-
| dolph, near Madison. but after quitting
work went to work ON a ranch near Win
tiers, leaving after four days work. 1t was
during these four days the outrage was per-
petrated.
Cline said his partner had left Sacra-
mento, but told where he could be found.
He was arrested by 8 clock yesterday morn
ing. Cline was brought to Woodland on
Monday and locked in jail. Swan saw
him through the wicket and by his manner
indicated that Cline was one of the men. The
prisoner tallies with the description of the
men as given by Miss Wsughtel at the
time, he being about five feet six inches in
hight, with reddish hair and mustache,
and is evidently German.
The victim of the outrage, who is now
Mrs. Artie Slice of Winters, will at once
repair to Woodland to view the prisoner.