Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-09-26
A Little Illinois White Girl
Brutally Outraged.
MARSHALL WILLIAMS, ALIAS pKLPHY,
4 COPPER coLoRED COON OF THIS
CITY, THE PERPETRAr0R
OF THE HKLLIsH DEED.
By Fearful Threats The Negro Boy Forces
Tsn-Year-0ld School Girl Near
Nebo, H., to Submit to His
Beastly Passions.

toughest young negroes, was arrest
ed Friday by Officers Bunton and
Dobyns for raping a ten-year-old
white girl at Nebo, ILL.,, sometime
Friday afternoon. T. 8. Grimes,
father of the girl, arrived Saturday
on the west-bound C. & A. pas
senger. A telegram had been re-
ceived from Nebo early in the
evening, telling the authorities to
arrest negro boy working on
freight train that pulled in here
about nine o'clock in the evening,
stating that he was wanted for
committing rape on ten-year-old
girl living just west of Nebo. When
Marshall Williams jumped off the
caboose of the train at this place,
he was promptly arrested and
locked up il the city hold-over.
AS the story comes to US, young
Williams was working in the Ca
boose of this through freight, and
when the train was stopped, half
mile out of Nebo, he noticed a ten
year-old girl walking along near
the track on her way home from
school. He quickly jumped down
from the train, picked up a rock,
and approaching the girl, threaten
ed to dash her brains out if she
did not concede to his demands.
Being thoroughly frightened, she
had to submit to being taken be-
tween the cars, where he attempt
ed to accomplish his brutal pur-
pose, but failed.
Everything goes to prove that
Williams is the guilty party. On
being interviewed at the calaboose
this morning by a reporter for the
LEDGER, he stated that he had not
left the caboose when the train
stopped this side of Nebo, at the
Mississippi river bridge, where he
says the train only stopped few
minutes. He positively denies
any knowledge of the act. Will
liams has bad reputation here for
a boy 16 years old, and there is no
doubt in the minds of those famil-
lar with the details of the crime
that he is the guilty party. He at
first agreed to go over without re-
QUESTION papers but soon changed
his mind. Sheriff Jacob Wind
mile er, of that county, was tele-
graphed for and arrived this after
noon. The girl would have been
brought over to identify the prison.
er, but she is too sick to travel.
Sheriff Windmiller says there is no
doubt but that Williams is the
party wanted. Mr.. Grimes, the
girls father, is determined, gen
teel looking man, and says all he
wants is to be sure of the right man
and then he wants him to have
Justice. In an interview to-day,
Mr.. Grimes said /: "Nebo is in
Pike county, 20 miles east of Louis.
lana, just east of Spring creek. The
train had crossed the bridge over
this creek, which was being repair
ed, causing a slight stop there, and
continuing on until it was within
800 yards of Bay creek, when II
stopped again, on account of an ac-
cident. Here it was that the me-
gro jumped off the train, made the
assault and got right back on the
train again. Bay creek is 3-4 Of
a mile from Nebo. Mr.. Grimes
states that his little daughter is not
badly injured, the villain being
hurried away by the starting of the
train before he fully accomplished
his heliish purpose.
Just before the 3:15 Wabash train
left for the east, Judge Forrist, the
prisoners attorney, agreed to let
Williams 60 without the requisi-
tion papers, and Mr.. Grimes, with
the sheriff, took him to Pittsfeld,
the county seat Of Pike county, Ill.
On leaving, Williams bade his
partner, Charlie Winslow, another
tough young coon, a very affec-
tionats farewell. The negro was TAX
en- via st. Louis to keep him from
falling into the hands of a mob
which, the sheriff said, would be
sure to get him if taken through
Nebo.
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