Evening journal., 1892-04-29
A YOUNG wOMANS BATE.
Criminally Assaulted BY q Straager
on the Lancaster Pike.


walter rArr IL Supposed to Have
RavIshed Emma Murphy Ina Lonely
Spot Beyond the oitV Limits on the
Lancaster Pike.
The residents of Silverbrook were very
much excited last night over rape
committed on one of Its citizens. Walter
Psrr is supposed to be the man who
committed the dastardly crime and his
victim was Emma Murphy. young
white woman about 20 years old,
Parr has a wife and child who reside
few doors below the B. & o. railroad
crossing on Lancaster avenue. be is
said TO be a hard working man
and sober he left his home
about 30 o'clock last night and, after
wandering around through the village,
he proceeded to the watch box at the
crossing and passed the time away with
a number OF other men who were there.
Emma Is stranger in this city, she
being employed at Edge Moor. Wishing
to better her position she left her home
at Edge Moor about o'clock In the
afternoon and started to see Frank
Lewis, farm hand on Wood ward s
farm at Wooddale. To accomplish her
visit she made her way out Lancaster
pike
She went on her way Ia happy mood,
hummingR song to while away the time
When she passed the watchman's box
at the crossing she noticed a number
Of men there. She kept going
out the pike, when she heard the
sound OF approaching footsteps Think.
/ ing that another person was also going
TO her destination. she did not
worry over the situation. II was
only 9 80 o'clock when she reached the
crossing The night was dark and
cloudy and there was no one In the
vicinity to hear cry for help.
SCENE OF THE ASSAULT.
The man still followed her until where
the Wilmington and NortherR railroad
crosses the pike. The road at this place
is bounded by a heavy thlcket or the
south and the yards and buildings OF
White & Brother, who have a
coal yard at that place, and on
the north a deep gully anc q thick
woods is seen,
HB COMMITS THE CRIME.
At this point the man shouted at the
woman TO stop She did not heed his cry
and kept on her way. After going 70 y
steps further tho fellow, supposed TO be
Parr. caught hold of her and dragged hel
to the side Of the road where be com
mltted the crime.
HE LEAVES his VICTIM.
II. Q. White, a foreman at the Goa
yards Of White & Brother at that point
had been over TO DuPont's Banks to
visit some friends there. He started
for home about o'clock an,
came along the public road which
terminates at the Lancaster pike abou
quarter OF mile below tine rRilroal
/ crossing When opposite the gree
] houses Of George Brinton, be heard tn
, mufiied cries of a woman. BE quiokene
I his pace and reached the crossing 4
about ten minutes. He was attracted {
I the spot by the womsn's continued cries
? and when White was within a short dis
s tknce Of her he saw the man leaving th
, PROSTATE woman, who lay in a sem
b conscious sondiuon
r The girls brutal assailant starte
s down the railroad at a break neck spec
d and was soon lost in the woods.
''HE HAS KILLED Nh"
Mr. White at once turned his attel
ton to the woman. he attempted Z
raise hsr to her feet, when she exclaimed
"0h my oh my, he has killed me, in
y low tone
In about FIVE minutes sbe revived an
was taken 70 a neighboring farm hous
where she Was cared for
When revived she gave Mr. White
, description Of her sssailRnt. which tAlliI
exactly with that OF Parr, and stat
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> he also beat her into submission. Whl
e Mr. White approached her abe begg
y him not to leave her as she was afra
y the fellow would return and kill her.
g THR POLICE NOTIFIED,
IL After q1ieting the woman, NJ
l. White hurried to the police station a.
20 notified Captain Kersey of the erin
D. The captain returned to the scene wi
ID Mr.. White and they secured the vicini
but could not find PArr.
HE RETURNS HOME.
In the meantime Parr had returned
ne his home, where he met his wife de
"a once shaved his moustsche of a
le started to 20 out again. His wife, wo
IS deriBg why he should act so mysteriou:
Sc and shave at hat time Of night, ask
him where he was goiRK he gave
~ reply to her question aud left the houi
Ia His wife remained mp until late hot
Ia when she was informed Of her husban,
As suspected crime.
=. HE LEAVES THE CITY.
AZ At about 1l.30 o'clock a freight tri
an over the Baltimore and Ohio was sil
tracked at the West Junction Of I
road. This Parr mounted. and In abe
Eve minutes the train moved out II
,s' supposed that he got of the train
la Baltimore where be is said to hav
N number of friends.
be DESCRIPTION OF THE VICTIM.
1t Emma Murphy is a bright you
re- woman, with flowing brown hair and
lal rathef pretty. She is about feet
in inches in height, and weighs about
he pounds.