Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1894-06-09
A WHITE MANS CRIME.
CrIminally Intimate With His Own
Daughter.-N0 Negro Involved In
the Ca-e.-what VIII They Do
With Him.


With Him.
CLIFTON FORCE, VA, May Boone
of the worst cases of brutality with
an outrageous consequence, came to
light at Longdale yesterday evening
late.
The facts are about as follows, as
far as your correspondent can learn
them up to this time
Elizabeth Downey, aged about
eighteen years, a daughter of George
Downey, who is an employee of the
| Longdale Iron Co., at its furnace
in this county, left him last Friday
to visit some of her relatives 10
Rockbridge county, a distance of
about five miles from Downey's
home, at Longdale furnace. On the
following Monday, the 2Sth instant,
the girls father went over on horee-
back to bring the girl home She
rode behind him. On the return
home, as they were elm bling n bill,
the father got off the horse and pull
ed out bis knife. The girl screamed
for help, as she thought she would
be killed on the spot. The father
threatened to kill her IL she did not
submit. The father also threat
ened to kill his daughter If she
didn't promise not to mention
the occurrence, which she did, after
some reluctance.
On yesterday the girls mother
questioned her closely, and the
above facts developed. themselves.
L A Of
the mans arrest, and Constable g.
j. Cochran, of Clifton Forge, made
the arrest late last night.
4 The preliminary hearing was had
this morning before Justice Guy r.
Johnson, and the above statement
of the case came out, except that
the man denies everything. The girl
tells straight tale of the unfortu-
nate affair. The Justice sent the pri-
soner on to the grand Jury.
Today Justice e. A. Snead, OF
i Clifton Forge, In response to wire
message from LOngdale furnace,
J went there, and with the constable
and several special guards, brought
/ the man here to walt the arrival OF
} the night train for Covington, but
upon the arrival here, found such a
gathering. of people, that 1t was
deemed best to send the prisoner on
r by private conveyance.
81 Considerable excitement prevailed
at the furnace after the preliminary
, trial today, and this was the cause
: of his being brought here by wagon
r instead of waiting for the train
t The County Court meets on Tuesday
r next, and Judge Moore will have 8
C special grand jury to consider the
t case, and prompt action will be tax
: en- looking to the mans conviction
n LEXINGTON, VA, May 31-Georg
Downey, the man charged with Grim
inally assaultiDg his daughter nea
Longdale In this county, at Clifton
Forge last night, was brought her
today and lodged in the ROckbridg
county jail. After being taken t,
CovinRton, the county seat of ALE
;. ghany, in which county it wa
Is thought the crime had been commit
q ted, the Commonwealth Attorney
D, learning that Spout Springs, on tn
d road between Collierstown, TIL
d county, and Longdale Furnace
10 Allegheny county, where the Grim
/ was committed was In ROckbridp
10 jurisdiction, the prisoner, in charg
r of Deputy Sheriff Hall, was brough
o. here today and lodged in jail, and
.. special grand jury has been sun
re moned by Judge Houston, of I'll
& county court, for Monday next t
~ hear the case.
X The unfortunate daughter is q
y. attractive girl of seventeen, and h'
%, story OF her fathers repeated in
sn moral proposals and final bru
u, force In the lone mountain is sicker
Gu ing. Downey denies the charge, ar
10 says that Tue gfr.s was put up
rs making the charge that 1t is spi
OF work for a whipping he gave her Il
rs bad conduct, and that she will N
60 repeat the story In court. The g
OF Is the Oldest of ten children, and b
les story is believed. The father
'p- about fifty, a man of good reput
ton heretofore, and owns q ri
home.
He has been long employed at Il
LOngdale Furnace as a stone-maso
all near where the crime was committe
at Considerable excitement preva
at among sturdy furnacemen, mine
IN an d farmers.