Evening journal., 1891-08-07

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into the bushes a short distance, and
taking out weapon threatened to kill
her IL she made a. y noise. He succeeded
in fri zhtening her into silence, and pro-
ceeded to accomplish his purpose. Her
tender years made horrible mutilation of
the body necessary, and to silence her
screams he choked ner until she was
almost dead BE then told her il she
said anything about Is or left the spot
for several hours he would come back and
kill her. He then made off When
Louisa could no longer hear him she
began crawling towards home.
In the meantime her parents had be
come alarmed at her absence and sent
messenger to look for her The messen
ger found the poor child slowly dragging
herself homeward along the road. She
was almost dead, and as soon as possible
was taken to her home where she told
her sad tale and described her assailant,
whose name she did not know. DR.. r
w. Hargadine was summoned the alarm
was given and the greatest indignation
was aroused Whites and blacks formed
posse on the next day, which was
Monday, and secured the country for the
fend. No clue could be obtained.
To stimulate effort Governor Reynolds
issued proclamation offering a reward
of $500 for his apprehension.
This had the desired effect A colored
man at Harrington was walking through
the woods on Tuesday, June ~, and saw
a colored man camping out. He had a
fire lighted, but no shelter Surprised at
this he approached the man, who wanted
him to go into Harrington and buy some
eatables aud tobacco for him, This
aroused his suspicious, and instead Of
buying the things for him he enticed the
man, who was Thoroughbred, to go as
for as Harring on This he did. The ne
gro advised him to hide in an empty
| freight car As soon as he saw him
safely housed in the car. he went aud no
titled a constable, The officer sneRked to
the car, showed the door to quickly fast
ened it, and had his man as nicely as If
he we're a rat in trap He then secured
help and taking Thoroughbred from the
car, conveyed him to Dover at midnight
in order to avoid lynchinR, and lodged
him safely in the keeping Of Sheriff Cole
| The victim of his lust was for several
weeks battling with death. and further
proceedings had to be stayed until DR.
Hsrgadine pronounced her able to make
the Journey to Dover. She was great
sufferer, and her hair and teeth dropped
out, and she was delirious much of the
| time.
Thoroughbred identified
| On March TO- the little victim was able
to be taken to Dover to identify Thorough.
| good Louisa and her mother were
placed in the psrlor of Sheriff Coles
residence. The little girl could not stand
and her mother held her In her lap.
Attorney General John Biggs DR..
Hsrgadine, her attending physician, the
| Legislative reporter of the EVENING
JOURNAL and several others were pres
ent.
Sheriff Cole took four negro prisoners
from their cells and tied their hands be-
hind them He placed hats upon their
heads, and, placing Thoroughbred in line
with them, marched them all into the
parlor
There he made the men stand In
line and told Louisa to point out the
man who assaulted her. Without a
moments hesitation she pointed her
iuger at Thoroughbred and said;
"That's the man
Every effort was made to puzzle her
The men wero shifted, but every time
she pointed him out instantly. The
sheriff began to lead him toward her
Il
and clinging about her mothers neck,
cried:
Don't let him hurt mel Don't let him
hurt me"
She could only be quieted by taking
him from the room. She identified him
by peculiar cast he had in one eye. In
q ddition to this she described his cloth
ing in every detail Nothing could have
been more complete than the identif-
cation.
The Poor Young Victim.
The S-year-oId victim is a remarkably
intelligent child. light complexion and
very delicate. When brought to Dover
her appearance showed how greatly she
had suffered.
thoroughbred Before the Court.
The trial Of Thoroughbred began be-
fore the Court Of Oyer and Terminer OF
Kent county on April o.
The negro WAS arraigned at the bar,
and the grand Jury found a true bill
poor to employ counsel the court ap-
pointed Beniah Watson. the lawyer who
defended Proctor and YouHg, to defend
him.
The following jury was empsneled:
George w. Holmes, foreman; Elisha
Yoshell, George w. Collins. Nathaniel
| Pratt, John w. Downham, John Athan,
George Cooper. Frank w. Dounes, Henry
s. Anthony, Thomas Slaughter, Jessie B.
| Hurlock, James A. Cook and William d.
Graham.
Mr. Watson had forlorn hope. and he
knew it. he began desperate Higgins
Neal tactics from the FIRST, in attempting
to keep the rope from around the neck
of the fiend. Bis first step was to object
to the jury because negroes were ex-
cluded from the box, and wanted the
eeurt to quash the indictment on that
ground.
Attorney General Biggs was toe sharp
for him, however. He subpenaed the
members of the Levy Court to appear
before the judges, and they all took oath
that in not placing the names of colored
men in the boxes from which the jury
was drawn they were not acting in .
spirit Of discrimination against the negro
on account Of his race or color. They
did 1t because they thought the men they
named were better fitted to deal with
matters coming before the court.
This knocked the last prop from under
the defence, aud then Mr.. Watson was
compelled to fall back upon the plea that
the iiUtle girl consented TO the overtures
maoe by the negro man. This failed too.
He then claimed that the only plea the
state could advance was that of identii
cation
The case occupied the attention of the