The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-05-25
HIS LITTLE VICTIMS STORY,
As Told on tho stand..-physicians
Testify to Her Condition After tho
Ass%ault.-.Iiow Probasco Took al.
vantage of the Confidence tho Girls
Mother Had in Hin,...lIoa Denies
Everything.

an indecent assault on Urilla Jackson,
tho nine year old daughter OF Mrs. Mar
tha jackson, Of Twenty.ninthi street.
Such details Of tho crime us wpro print
able have been published in the 1SrEL-
LiGEScgn.
Probasco is charged with having indie.
Gently assaulted tho child on tho If
tccn,h OF last March. He escaped TO
Columbus, O., and was brought back by
Chief McNichol and Lieutenant Gaus,
who went there after him. At the pre-.
liminary hearing the little girl swore
that Probasco had committed the crime
upon her, physicians testified that she
was suffering from a loathsome dis.
ease, and an examination OF ProbaSco
showed that hc was suffering with the
same disease.
The case was called yesterday morn
ing at half past nine, Prosecuting attor-
ney John A. Howard representing the
State, and Messrs. S. o.. Boyce and j. b.
Wilson appearing for the defendant.
There was no difficulty in getting a
jury, and the following twelve men
qualified and went into the box: Jacob
Keller, William Fl. Tacgart, Charles
Sample. I. b. Smith, Henry Kalbitzer,
W. I. Crummie, Elmer Nichols, Frank
Caldwell, AZ 9. Wagner, Alphonsus STEM
ger and Anton Schlotter.
Mr.. Howard made the opening state
ment for the prosecution. He spoke of
the Nervousness OF the crime with which
the defendant was charged, and pro-
fesscd that the State would prove the
indictment. Mr.. Wilson followed, and
said the defendant would prove that
Probasco had not committed the deed.
THE TESTIMONY.
DR.. j. W. Morris was the first witness
who testified. He said he had exam
ined Probasco in the Jail and had found
him tainted with disease DR., John r.
Pipes testified to tho same fact, and said
he had examined Urilla jackson, had
found proof that Probasco had sue
ceeded in his design, and that the little
girl was suffering from the same disease
Probasco had. DR.. j. r. Manley testi-.
fed to about the same facts, andTDr.
Way SoAtoooAotS ~ SAlNlles g, Lc6-
tlm9ny;
said tbot proSascn 5oa tdod n,;th H h".
the time the crime was committed. He
and joseph Bonner occunied one he'd in
q room, and from the 10thrtto tho 18th
Of the month her daugli!tet ,Urlla, and
two other children occupied another
bed in the same room. The witness had
Observation-Disclosures name ON March
Is, and on asking her was told what PRO-
basco had done. Probasco had heen
there nil MORNING hut left shortly after
the crime was discovered: Conrf ad.
iourned at twenty minutes alter twelve
o'clock.
When the afternoon session becon
Mrs. Jackson was again nut on the stand
and cross-examinel. She reloted tho
same story and denied that she had
hard feelings against Probasco because
he had objected to her entaftaiSiiiT
men at her house. She said that Bon.
ner used to get up at half past 6 o'clock.
and as Probasco did not Got nm mill
later. he was alone in the room With the
Children INIT thew arose
.,s
80, 'ti% stoEf,
Little orlila jackson, Probasco's al
legged victim, was called to the stand.
She is a plump. bright LOOKING LITTLE
girl. not quite ten wears old,
MIR Bovce asked tho court IN oxom;no
the witness ne to her nnal;f;cotio
Mr.. Howard asked her If shn had tatom
the oath. .Do Won moan.wban T. hnIJ;
up nv hand like that 'i said the little
girl, Initiating the position of n witness
while being sworn.
"Wbnt do Won understand nv. ol;n,
nm oothn said Mr.. Howard -
"To promise TO tell thn ,r,tb y r.os
the little witnesses reniv
"And ii you don't tell the truth. said
,Jndoa Panll Mwbat will hacnma J;
yon?"
You won't 80 to heaven"
Is that all you understand:by taking
the oath Yea, sir replied Urilla.
Mr.. boyce thought the witness was
no competent, n objected to her ex-
animation. The objection was not sus-;
tanned, and AIR. Howard proceeded to
question the enid. s.. ~
Ihechild Told a straight story, and
related that she, her little brother and
cousin Maggie, both younger than she,
Tor several days slept on a bed in the
room occupied by Probasco and Bonner,
Probasco got into her bed, and then
one morning committed the crime, re-
peatins it next morning. On'this morn
ing her mother discovered what had
been done.
On the cross examination Urilla's
story OF the main facts never .wavered,
though there were some discrepancies