The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-03-18
A Fiend Outrages q Young Girl
at Pleasant Hill, MO.
Hundreds of Men Securing til
Country and the Villain Liable
to be Caught at Anytime.


Over 500 men on hOcss back, armed with
guns and pistols aud with number oil
hounds, are securing the whole east and
south end of Jackson county. and RELAYS
of guards are lAiiint Iva's along a! he b gh'
ways aud I'd lr ads In search of The brute
There is a small hat in patch of wood
about half mile from the scene of the
outrage, occupied by a half-breed Indian
that was for a time under surveillance.
This Indian, who subsists by hunting and
fishing, answered tie description of the
villain, and curing the whole evening
about twenty men were at his cabin wait
ing for him to show up.
The Ietribu,iye Justice that will overtake
the sconndrel. IL caught: will be swift and
terrible. He will Dc strung up to the first
tree available, as several stout ropes were
taken along by the various parties OF
sesrchers.
MISS ATKINSON THE VICTIM.
The name of the victim of the brute's
lust is Allie Atkinson, aud she is the Is
yesr-olu daughter of james w. Atkinson,
a prominent and wealthy farmer living
three and half miles west of this place.
His farm is In a rather isolated locality,
being fully half q mile of the highway
leading from Pleasant Hill to Lees Snm-
nit
Miss Atkinson is a comely girl of pre-
possessing figure. Her chief charm con-
sisted of a magnificent head of hair which
she wore braided into a single plat that
extended below her waist.
Shortly after dinner YESTERDAY Miss
Atkinson went to the house of r Joerr
Hoover, the nearest neighbor, about
quarter OF mile east of her home, with a
bucket for milk There is wood path
between the Hoover and Atkinson resi-
oences leading part of the way through
patch Of wood. This the young lady took
and she reached the Hoover hou.e aud Lad
her bucket filled with milk and started
back about = o'clock.
AS she reached the patch of woods
about midway between the two houses
Miss Atkinson set the bucket of milk by
The roadside and stopped to tie her shoe
striug, which had became lOosened. While
in this STOPPING position she was startled
by hearing footstep behind her and be-
fore she could rise she was seized and
thrown backward to the ground and the
face of fierce looking, swarthy COM
plexioned man looked into hers
SUBJECTED TO AWFUL TREATMENT,
knife which be brandished close 10 the
terrified girls face and in he most foul
words be couched an indecent proposal
and as the young lady struggled fi-rcely
10 release herself be Kissed out, keep still
or I'll cut your throat" and he did inaIct
a slight scratch on her neck.
As the girl still struggled to release her.
self the william suddenly thrust her on her
side and pulling out her long plait of hair
to its full length with single quick
sweep OF bis keen edged knife cut of the
luxuriant braid close to the scalp.
Half fainting from terror and the horror
of her position, Miss Atkinson partly lost
and when she recovered her
hands were tightly bound behind her, her
dress was raised and torn and Q plug OF
wood about two inches long was between
her upper and lower teeth, keeping her
Jaws distended and her mouth wide open.
Thus prevented by the cruel gag from
making any outcry which her terror and
excitement ha1 prevented a. first, Miss
Atkinson was compelled, in the full pos
sion of all her faculties, 10 submit TO the
brute. Her clothes were partly cut and
torn away and her thighs were cut in two
places by the williams knife. She sgain
,wooned and when she regained conscious
ness she saw The fend about fifty yards
away walking swiftly across the fields 10 a
southerly direction toward the tracks of the
Missouri Pacific railway.
THE POOR GIRLS RETURN HOME.
Half dead with terror and exhaustion.
covered with dirt and mud, her clothes
TORN and dishevelled by the brnte's des.
perate haste, her hands securely tied and
The gag in her mouth, the poor girl man.
aged In some was tostruggle to a sitting pos
lure then 10 her feet and thus she staggered
home. She was met In the doorway by
her brother Jim and two younger sisters.
Shocked by the pitiable plight Of Allie
and scarcely r. aliziug the awful situation
they yet assisted the suffering victim in |
releasing her hands and with difficulty !
the gag.
1t was then that the girl told her terrible
story
Leaving her with the sisters Jim started
Tor Neighbor Wards house and with him
made a short search for the miscr. ant, but
ne had already disappeared from sight
The brother then started for this place on
1ofocU6Ek IOI ucQiCdl dlu dIu luz ul6 pa
rents, who were in town visiting a married
daughter.
DR.. J. w. Smith went to the house, and
At midnight had jus, returned to the city.
To q reporter he stated that the girls con-
iition was critical in the extreme. She at
irst suffered severely from commissions,
and there is still imminent danger that the
,hock to her nervous system will result
seriously. There are two cuts on
her thighs made by the villain cut
ing of her clothes and her head was also
nutilsted by the same instrument in cutting
,ff her hair. In her back are the bloody
mprints of the miscreant's boots-huge
aail marks plainly indicating that he must
nave kicked his victim after she was down.
THE FOUL FIEND DESCRIBED.
To her mother, who hsstened home with
he doctor, Miss Atkins related, in frag-
nentary way and between convulsiys sobs,
he story of her outrage.
Miss Atkison's sssailant is described as