The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-25
DID HE ATTEMPT RAPE?
CAL BEAN, THE HACKMAN, ARREST
ED ON THAT CHARGE.
Miss Anderson, n Young Lady From
Ogden, Says He Drove Her to East
Waterloo on Monday Night and in
u Lonely Spot Assaulted Her.

The office of Chief of Police Pratt
ly dramatic incident, in which an al
legged villain and an injured girl played
the leading parts. The facts which led
up to the climax were that last Mon
day evening Miss Lulu Anderson came
in from Ogden, arriving at the Rio
Grande Western depot about 9 o'clock.
She expected to be met at the depot
by friends, but for some reason they
failed to connect Miss Anderson, after
waiting at the depot a reasonable
length of time, took a hack and or
dered the driver to go to the residence
of her friends, Twelfth South and First
West streets. Instead of going where
he was ordered, the man drove away
east, right across the city and south
to Liberty park. When the girl saw
the lights of the city fading from view,
she became alarmed and asked the
Jehu If he hadn't made a mistake, but
he quoted her fears by assuring her
that it was all right; that there was a
big excavation that he couldn't cross
and had to go a long way round. He
continued his course until he got right
away TO the southern extremity of East
Waterloo. Miss Anderson by this
time was thoroughly alarmed
and insisted upon getting out
or the hack, upon which the
driver descended from his seat and,
putting out the lights, made indecent
proposals to the girl and, being indig-
nantly repulsed, he seized her and at
tempted to force her to submit to his
desires. Miss Anderson fought with
the strength of desperation and finally
eluding his grasp, ran to the nearest
house with the fellow in hot pursuit.
Arriving at the house he demanded his
fare, S. She having only so cents in
change gave him that and he drove off.
Miss Anderson was taken care of by
the occupants of the house and after
wards put on the car and taken to the
home of her friend.
The affair was afterwards reported to
Chief of Police Pratt and the girl gave
a description of her assailant and on
that description Cal Bean, the well
known hack driver, was arrested. The
chief arranged that Miss Anderson, her
mother and two other friends would
be at his office at o'clock last night.
the hour at which he had fixed that
I Bean would be brought in. Shortly
| after the hour named Bean was brought
| in by a policeman, having been told
| that the chief wanted to see him, and
was at once ushered into the presence
] Oh the young lduJ VIII lue llOInGHl SHE
saw him and heard him speak, called
out, chats the man." She was ex-
cited and trembling but stoutly main
| tanned that Bean was the man. The
girls mother became very much
worked up at the sight of the man
whom her daughter identified as her
assailant and things looked stormy for
minute or two. Bean mildly inquired
what he had been arrested for; admit
ted that he had driven the girl from
the depot on Monday night but denied
having taken any liberties with her
and explained his getting so far out
of the way by saying that he took the
lcourse he had done because the roads
were better that way than by the di-
rect route. He was locked up last
night, and this morning Miss Anderson
will swear to warrant charging him
probably with assault with intent tc
commit rape.
Miss Anderson is a young girl OF
petite figure and a handsome face anG
is about 20 years of age, but look!
younger. She is the daughter of ar
Ogden lawyer and came to Salt Lake
to attend school. and is unacquaintet
with this city.