Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-10-12
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Sheriff Blakey Brings Rack the Young
Girls, With Their Abductors.
Roc n Thompson Jailed.
From Wednesdays Daily.
Sheriff Blakey came in this morning
on the Elkhorn from Glen Rock, Wyo.,
with VIM. Roe and Jas. Thompson,
Nellie and Lille Young and at once
put the men in Jail and turned over
the erring daughters to their parents.
He has been up for three nights and is
feeling pretty we'll used up for want of
sleep. From u talk with the girls we
learn that they went away from home
themselves, having previously arranged
for meeting thompson some distance
out of town. This was the second en-
gagement they had made for running
away, but in the first one they we're
frustrated. They claim they went with
Jimmie" towards Custer and from
their stopping place started for Wy
oming having previously notified Roe
by a note where they were going and
the way they would take. They say
Roe did not overtake them until they
were out on Beaver creek, Wyoming.
This story Mr.. Young positively de-
MES and says he has witnesses to prove
that Roe was with them from the start.
The girls further say that Thompson
told them of how he had stole horses
and a saddle and gotten ready for the
trip. They say they slept in the wagon
and the men slept under the wagon.
They had been in Glen Rock a day
or two and were camped on Deer creek
when Thompson was arrested. Lille
had got a place in a restaurant and
Nellie had engaged to work in a print
ing office ut 80 "a week. Lille was
waiting on Roe who was eating his
dinner when he wa arrested. The
marshal came in and ordered him to
throw up his hands at the point of his
gun, searched him and took him off to
Jail. The girls claim that their father
treated them mean and did not furnish
them with clothes, and they got tired
staying at home, as the reason they +
ran off with these fellows; although
they say the men hadn't bought them a
stitch of clothes since they had left
home. The younger one, Lille, says |
Thompson wanted her to marry him at |
Douglas, but she says she didn't want to |
marry a horse thief. The men, they !
claim, were going to work in the coal
mines Mt Glen Rock.
Roe and Thompson were taken to
Judge Ridpath's office at 8 o'clock this
morning and the complaint, charging
them with 'enticing a chaste female
under the age of twenty-fiv years,
away for the purpose of prostitution"
was read to them, to which they both
pleaded "not guilty" This complaint
was only as against Nellie Young, the
older one The court then informed
the prisoners that they had a right to
secure counsel or to waive examina-
ton and give bonds for their appear
ance ut court. Roe demanded that he
be given a separate trial, which the
court allowed. He then said that after
a little counsel with an attorney, he
would be able to proceed to trial at
once and would conduct his own case.
and demanded that it should be heard
at once The judge informed him that
the prosecuting attorney was in Dead
wood and whether it was customary
for the state to be ready or not, he
would set the trial for Friday at 8
o'clock and that until that time Roe
would be held in $500 bonds and
Thompson $500. No effort was made
to furnish the bonds and the prisoners
went to Jail.
1t is said Roe left his wife on account
of her encouraging the suit of a young
man Mac.Adams who wanted to marry
his daughter Estella, and whom he did
not want for a son-in-law. He has
always borne a good reputation for
honesty in this neighborhood and how
he could have made up his mind to
run away with these young girls is
more than we can imagine. Thomp-
son has the name of being prettytough.
At all events they have got their foot
into it now, as the charge against them
is a serious one.
The Catholicon in Court Again.
From Tuesdays Daily.
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