The morning news., 1891-01-27
-orse RI TT IDENTIFIED.
1,ttle Girls and Two Csbmen
Eve - sim out of a Crowd.

- little GIFTS HuO wv S0IAASA
!Fs p'ck Sim out Of a Crowd.
r-,n fhs yer York Sun. Jan. %.
.-.,,;.r, B. Rhett, the young clerk Of the
steamship Company Of Savannah,
w arrested at the Cortlandt street
- Tuesday night. charged with at
1877! - TO induce news girls to enter a cab
Nm was confronted with FIVE
W -. in the Tembs ponce court YES
~ Nd was identified by them. He
isflSy - nnder bail on two other charges,
Es duction aud another Of rape. de
one oas,sd o. hail. The girls were Mary Will
op.a rho was taken IN charge by the Gerry
H-'s' vhen Rhett was arres ed; Kate
Sl' aged u years, OF Third street,
I'm CIV. Maggie Clusky, aged 10 years,
s='ssJ ssJJrsnta street, Jersey City, and two
o. 2e,TI rom this city, Mary Morris, IL years,
3Tiiiie ~ Morris, 9 years old, of 225 Null
o-Ts n. '.Is Jsrsey City girls ssll newspaper.
-, Norris girls peddle bouquets in down
I'm offices by day, and then cross TO Jsr-
ioH T;tv and hang around the ferry. Chief
s' 'poies Sii9 Murphy Of Jersey City persuaded
O O. ,,,orgers of the girls to entrust them 20
US US Ore of the Gerry society du ing Rh it's
ino '.i Katie Flynn's mother took her to
t va, Murphy ON Thursday. Detective
GsPt, GaItc, Of Jersey City and Agent Wilson
psi Wa,gie Clusky at a public school. Her
gos 80 co npanions know her by her alias.
sIeoi sTo,is KelIy.n Detective Nail captured
~ Morris at Liberty street Ferry late on
1M.,rsiey night, and Mrs. Morris brought
IiS,e to court herself. All except Lille are
.,.Iar Supt Jenkins care.
The girls were taken to the Justices
..;Ts,a room. Soon after young Rhett
ton hvx 10 M "
De- his lawyer, John S. Abner. and a
rnmber of friends. Mr.. Gerry sat with
Tnst;ce Taintor. The justice directed all
&c men in court to sit down on three rows
~ benches on the south side of the desk.
&hont twenty-five or thirty complied and
slied the benches. Then Justice Taintor
tnd Rhett to take seat anywhere he chose
W the benches. Rhett chose q seat in the
Snrtbest corner of the last row. He was
male. but self-possessed.
Snnt JenkiLs led in Mary Morris. She
said She knew Rhett, and was ordered to
Doint him out. She looked at the crowd OF
man before her. They opened the gate and
sbe slowly walked down the aisle and locked
at all the faces. linen sne SAID, poinSlhg'
st ats him.
500 no AID touch him." said the Justice.
She pushed her way in and put her hand on
P1stt,s sleeve. Then she came b LEX, and
the iustice asked Rhett to stand up. de
did 50. AID the girl again identified him.
She was taken away, and Rhett was di-
rected TO change his seat. He did so, and
Katie Flynn was brought in. TIE same
programme was followed and she at once
identified Rhett as the man she had gone
ewav with in a cab. Then he changed hil
seat to the middle of the back row and
Mary Williams came in. Size identified
,f,aIN 49, rr,N hnU- ffNe kax
the cab with him on Tuesday night The
Clusky or Kelly girl and little Lille Morris
ais identified him.
The girls were taken out Of the room, and
Edward Lally, the cabman whose cab Rhet
had hired on Tuesday night. identified
Rnett. SO did George dcCue, another cab
man, who saw the arrest. Rhett was per
fectly cool and self-possessed through al
this scene.
Superintendent Jenkins produced tive
additional complaints against the young
man, one charging abduction. the othe
charging rape. Katie Flynn signed the afft
dayit in the abduction case. The date as
signed was Dec. 5, and the complaint Sc
forth that Rhett had enticed her into cal
at night at the Cortlandt street ferry
driven with her around the city, anC
had acted improperly with her. Mar
Morris, who is called Polly around tn
ferries, signed the other affidavit. i
charged that the crime was committed OIL
the night of Dec. 5. and that Rhett haC
enticed her into a cab. Justice Tainto
held Rhett on both charges. demanding
81 zoo bail in the abduction case and 81, GO
in the rape case. Francis A. Day, tn
Brooklyn man who went his bail on tn
original charge, gave bonds in both thes'
instances. Rhett is now out under 81. 90
bail iu all. Justice Taintor set the exam
nation for Thursday.