Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-15
Az ALLEGED INDIGNIrY TO A You've

An ALLEGED INDIGNITY TO A YOUNG
IADY.-On an electric car which left
New Alexandria about ten O'Clock yes
tcrdaY morning Il young woman, an
employee at the basket factory, sat in a
seat with swollen eyes, as though she
had been weeping, with her clothes dis
beveIed and pinned on her body. The
conductor, upon asking the reason Of
her distress, was told u SAD story of an
indignity she had suffered yesterday
morning at the hands of some OF the
other females employed III the factory.
According to her story she had been
employed in the factory but Il few days
and had incurred the displeasure of the
other employees by her eXclusivdness
in not participating in the hilarity in
dulgcd in by some OF the others. Yes
tcrlay. she averre,i, shortly after work
had BEGAN she was seized by u number
OF the Young women and, despite her
Persistence. had all her clothing. save
one garment, removed and that while
in this plight the foreman of the factory
was called to the room TO behold her.
Later, she ayers, that other men en-
ploved in the factory came into the
room and behcld her in her mortiiying
condition. By night the affair had been
generally circulated in New AleXan-
dria and this city, and when the
cars with the worbmen left the for
home IN indignant crowd had boarded
them aud talk of white-capping the
men who had connived ut the indignity
to the Young woman, was freely IN
du!ged in 1t became 50 hot for some
oi them that it is said they avoided the
car which usually brings the workmen
home and took one which left later.
o. the way down this morning those
employed at the Deis factory and III
other occupations ut New Alexandra
cave vent TO their feelings toward the
merpetrators of the outrage in menacing
language. The alleged victim of this
outrage is an orphan girl, about 20 .;ears
old. rather stout, and not bad looking.
Her name is purposely suppressed. She
Is q native of Maryland, and came here
a few DAYS ago in search OF employ
meut which she secured at the basket
factory. According to her story, she
has been the object Of persecution on
the part of the other young girls en-
nloved in the factory from the first
GaV she enteredthc building having had
all sorts of embarrassing questions pro
rounded to her. She appears 10 be an
innocent. well-meauing country girl,
aud. rs she says. has been the object OF
persecution in one form or another CON
iinually until yesterday, when the eli
max was reached by her companions de-
nuding her. At the beginning of the
assault she says her clothes were pull
ed around her body and nailed to 4
bench, and that the eliminating cruel
Is consisted in disrobing her to one
garment Though at first she asserted
aII had been removed, which ~ eye-wit-
ness declares to be tie !aet,) and while
SMITHS condition poking all sorts ofilnat
her As stated above, she AYERS the
foreman and other male employees saw
her in this plight and took no steps to
protect her from insult. II is said tha,
thc Girls who were guilty Of The cruel
syeatment endeavor TO mitigate the Oh
tense by saving that the treatment the
Young woman received was necessary
Tart OF the initiation required ior adj
mission to their COMPANY The pro,
rjetors of the basket factory, aa well
~ Mr. Clarke, the superintendent, are
bent upon Sitting the affair, and they
say dismissal from the service OF the
company Will iollow when the guilty
parties are found Should the young
3yoman make a police case out OF ii the
persons engaged in the alleged outrage
can be fined all the way from one to
fifty dollars.