Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-12-16
4 GIRLS SAD PLIGHT.
,uv FALLS INTO THE HANDS OF A DOZEN
RUFFIANS
On Violently Assault Her-Five Of the Men Ar
,sss3-Hsr Serious Condition Serious Trouble
Avsrtei-Sluggsd His Wib-A De
nial" Of News Item.


Williams. Peter Kemp and "StOny"
nifty. for being together for immoral
D,rposes, has resulted in bringing to
Gcbt criminal assault upon the person
If tbe girl named in which no less than
twelve men were engaged. Three Of
the men are now in Jail on State
warrants, and two out on $1,000 bail,
and the girl, who was eRcetnte, is lying
=, her home on the National pike, near
the Fulton line, in serious condition,
her treatment by the rufianS who as
seilsd her having resulted in bringing
sbout premature birth, at the City
nan. about eight o'clock yesterday
morning.
About half-past seven o'clock Monday
evening the police in that portion of
the city lying Immediately south OF the
creek were informed that young man
named Pudding LOwery had been
seen going up on Chapline hill with
qIrl. As a young girl had been seen
shout that part OF the city
early in the evening, in bad
comnsny, the police concluded
thew had better inquire into the case,
and Officers Cruce, Moran and Watson
started up the road, leading east from
the head of Twenty-frst street. They
followed the road as far as the point
where il forks, about a mile from the
old Female Seminary building, and
then, seeing nothing Of girl or the man
sbe was supposed TO be with, they turn
ed back toward the city and crossed
over the top OF Chapline hill towards
CsIdwelTs Run. About half way down
the hill they suddenly came upon a par
~ OF twelve men, who scattered and
ran. leaving the girl. She was brought
into town and taken TO the City Hall,
and short time after Kemp and Duffy
were arrested, on the South Side, one or
them down about Caldwel'S Run. and
were locked up.
About seven o'clock yesterday morn
ing. while Janitor John Howell was
passing around the cell-room, at the
Cty Hall, he noticed the Williams girl,
apparently asleep, but a short time
afterwards he found her awake and cry
ing. He asked what was wrong, and
She told him her fears, and asked for a
musician. DR.. McGrail was at once
sent for. and q short time after his ar
rival the girl experienced a premature
birth, az a result of her treatment at
the hands Of the gang on the hillside.
AT the session of Police Court the case
against the girl was continued, while
Kemp aud Duffy were discharged, they
producing testimony 20 show that they
we're not in the party. The girl re-
NAMED I'm the Lookup Keepers back
room until about one o'clock in the
afternoon, when Chief Delbrugge re-
moved her TO the home OF her parents,
90 the National road. The scene there,
on the arrival of the girl, was very
affecting. There seemed 70 be no
money in the house, and the Chief
gave the mother all the cash
be had with him. The girl Is but about
Is years of age, exceptionally pretty,
and has not been a bad girl very long.
before her removal from the City Hall,
sc had been determined 10 issue State
warrants for the men believed 20 be i'm
plicated In the assault, and Chief Del
brugge rearreSted STONY" Duffy. and
ORcer Deviin brought in Dutch" The
ulNlts MAOHc llNAt AdLlC - AACONVAN
ThIcsEOuse. A little later Pudding"
L0wery was arrested, and was positively
Identified by the girl as one OF her as
s3IantS. LOwery practically admitted
his guilt to the Chief. About five
o'clock Albert Krogel was arrested, and
al four men sent to jail by Justice
Ankle for a preliminary examination on
the 23d. Peter Kemp was arrested later,
and gave 1000 bond, as did Duffy.
Seven others are wanted, and will be
arrested as soon as the police can ind
them.
The offense is rape, the twelve men
uniting TO forcibly compel the girl TO
submit, and she says several Of the
party constantly held her down. She
made a statement TO Officer Frohme,
supplying all the names and what
other Information she could give.