Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-01
SAVED BY A SCREAM.
Mollie Hanlon Plunges Into the Ohio
to Escape Her Abductors.
HER LIFE STRUGGLE In MID-RIyER.
Taken Into the Boat She Again Trusts Her.
self to the Stream.
RESCUED BY A SHANTY-BoAT RESIDENT

William Cullinan and Jerome Jones are
the names of two male members of the hui
man family that yesterday decorated the
criminal docket in Allegheny Central sta
tion. Their residence is Brunot's Island,
and the charge against them is assault.
That was all the story of their crime
| the records showed, but they are really con-
fined for attempting to abduct pretty II
year-old girl The attempt was made in an
open boat in the Ohio river Saturday night,
and the girl twice jumped into the river,
risking her life in order to escape from her
abductors.
The girl is Mollie Hanlon. and her parents
live on Stockton street near Twenty-sixth.
On Saturday she went to picnic at Nc
KEGS Rocks, in company with another girl.
By some chance the two became separated,
and Miss Hanlon arrived at the dock just in
time to see the last boat pull out for the city.
1t was $50 o'clock, and there was no way
for her to reach home She then decided to
cross the river to Manchester and take o
street car home. She met Jones and Culli-
nan at the boat landing and asked them to
ferry her over. The men agreed to take her
across for 15 cents.
An Abduction Proposed by One Man.
When the middle of the river was reached
the girl offered her ferriage. As she handed
it over one of the men grabbed her. She
screamed, but he quickly placed his hand
over her mouth and proposed to his COM
panlon that they take her to the island.
When Cullinan removed his hand she
screamed again for assistance, but was only
gagged again. When thrown down she tainted
but soon recovered. TWAS dark as midnight
and the girl did not know what part of the
river she was in, but she broke away from the
men and jumped into the water. Cullinan
Immediately jumped after her and caught
her as she fioated down the stream. Jones
followed with the boat and the water
soaked girl was again taken aboard. Again
the men headed for the island and the girl,
thoroughly weakened for time, kept silent,
but as soon as their watch was removed she
again plunged headlong into the river. She
was fshed out and once more the men headed
the boat for Brunot's Island.
/, The girl, however, continued screaming,
and her cries for aid were heard by Mrs
Agent, who lives in shanty boat at the
foot of wilkins street. The woman had got
ten into her own skiff and started for the
rescue.
Rescued and Taken Care Of
With the aid of boy she rowed out into
the middle of the stream. She reached the
would-be abductors just as they had drawn
the girl into the boat for the second time.
She demanded that the girl be given up, and
they did SO, glad to escape so easily.
The good woman soon had the girl snugly
tucked away in her own Io-boat. She first
gave the frightened child dry clothing and
then started in search of the police. She
found Lieutenant Boland and Officer Cos
lett, who went to work to find the men.
Shortly before midnight they arrested Gull
imam in a saloon on Preble avenue. He
%en' DUlsS''u and also 0' that 0Hs Jones @ Has sas
the other one, and that he lived on the
island Cullinan was locked up in the
police station, and about 2
O'Clock the officers went to the island and
arrested Jones, who was found asleep in
bed at his home. Yesterday morning the
men and the girl were taken to the Allie
gheny lookup, where Miss Hanlon told her
story. In reciting it before Superintend-
ent Muth she tainted twice and became
slightly hysterical, and DR.. Hazard, police
surgeon, had to be called to attend her.
In the afternoon her father, who is a pud-
dler, called for her and took her home
She is very pretty girl, and eminently
Cullinan and Jones will be
given hearing this morning.