The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-04-20
ANOTHER OUTRAGE IN A CAR
4 SCION OF NoBILiTY ATTEMPTS 10
ASSAULT A LADY,.

| The ZION. Mr.. Nugent Kisses Miss Trice
| and Att n,p.s 10 Embrace Etcr-She sue
| eeeds In PuiIInr the Isc,I Cord and stops
the Train-NuRent In Arrested nnd ISIS
wiz Hears the Girl's story In Court.
LONDON. April 10.-The Hon. Patrick Emil
ius John Grevillo Nugent. brother of Baron
Grevilc. and deputy Lieutenant and High
Shorifr Of the county OF Westmeah. ireland.
was examined to-day on n charge Of having
assaulted n lady in a nrst-class carriage on
tho Brighton Railway. The Grevies stand
high among the nobility. NuGent was born In
1852. and Is married to Lady Ermengarda.
daughter and hcircss OF Augustus Ogilvy,
ESQ. OF Dumfries. Scotland. They have one
child.
The lady In the case Is Miss Marion Prico.
The evidence ut the Westminster Police Court
to-day was strong 4Eninst the defendant. Tho
guard declared that Nugent changed car
riagos at Hayward's Heath and entered the
compartment in which Miss Price was sitting
alone. The guard knew OF no cause why the
accused man should have changed his COM
partment. unless 1t was on account of Miss
Price. The story told by Miss Price is as fol-
lows:
Tho prisoner camo into the compartment,
and soon after tho train started he began to
speak to mo- did not wish to enter into any
conversation with him. and answered him
very briefly This did not seem to discourage
him. He addressed mo in cndcaring terms.
and. coming close to whore was sitting. no
away. but he succeeded in kissing me. al
though app9alcd to him asa gentleman to
screamed as loud as ! could for help at the
same sam time trying to yet away from him. lIe
while he tried 10y brutal force to keep me
cation cord and pulled 1t. AS l reached the
cord the prisoner made more determined
on S Ea a@e rs In ns tnrn
ane f5s GnmS to standsti changed into
showed rents both in the front and back. Tho
guard said that when the train was stopped |
oncr what he had been doing. Nugent replied |
t tn he had been doing nothing. and that h9 |
asked him his name and he declined to give it. |
He was put under arrest upon the arrival Of |
ahs S Mn9M the # the es s
refused to give his name. and the police had |
some enc trouble in ascertaining who he was
hours, Tho counsel for GreyiIl t. Nugent sus.
ges este !, that It was y .r case Of blackmail.
ever to sow that s is no evidence what
Bail was required from the defendant in the
proS 0 lIr arther appearance and was
This evening u reporter called at Miss Prices
he dFrt h IS bs Ss
The Price house is q three story brick one.
his neighbors Mr.. Price bears the reputation
OF a man Of considerable. property and they
IN Battersel, whore he owns chemical factory.
Mr.. Price received the correspondent. He Is
ehar 81
he became I excited and denounced Nugent as
n ond yrn l
touch cent Of his money with one finger He
is rascal. n libcrtne a coward. Ho is trying
Bring ali ali fdsS a hHs nacnee
to bear upon the courts. am far from being
Iasten his eowardice and disgrace upon him.
He shall suffer as Col. Valentine Baker SUI
i've 1hf aTe So
solicitor for two hours. and he says that tho
case against Nugent is complete. There is no
Miss PRICE is in bed with a nurse in attend
reaching home. and her physician keeps her
partially nndcr the influence Of opiGtes. When
nb!o to 80 to court and confront her as
Mr: Price ,rehearsed the whole story, Of the
ws ber hrtGq wh
her to the station and kissed her when he
her the he. faT5se Nugent
concluded that Miss Price was not proper
young woman |
My daughter was half asleep when he en-.
tered the compartment" said Mr.. Price. and
ut first he paid no attention to her. The train
he attempted to assault her. She followed tho
suggestion of her first thought she Gays. when
she started to change carriages"
The interest In the case in London Is hardly
n css than that in the celebrated Dixie scandal
Is makeshft. and NuGents conviction Is re-
;arded us certain.