The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-29

Sheriff Hardy's deputies, J. H. Miller
and D. P. Thomas, succeeded in captur-
/ ing Annie Peterson, alias Dutch An
I ME" aged about Is or 20 years, the girl
who was alleged to have been raped
( near the highway of the road running
I to Sandy by Freighter Frank MeIdrum.
/ who lives at Sandy. the full particulars
of which were published following the
occurrence.
/ Sheriff Hardy and his entire force OF
/ deputies have been working night and
/ day since the capture Of Meldrum to
/ find the girl. From Farmer David
/ Jones. who made the attempt to cap
/ ture Medium when ne broke away
with his team and struck Jones in the
/ face with his whip; from Mr.. Hanson
I of Sandy and the justice of the peace
of Sandy, was obtained but slight
clues to the identity of the girl who
had been seen by them with Medium
on the highway near the outskirts of
/ this city and also of Sandy, and drink
/ ing beer with him at Murray. But lit
/ tie description of the girl could be
/ given, but with such as it was the
/ sheriffs worked up the wide spaces be-
| tween spots of indefinite information
/ lodging houses next to OReiIly's sa-
/ loon on State street.
While watching this place they got a
! tip that a big. burly negro, an occa-
siOnal frequenter of that neighborhood,
/ had told the girl that the police were
/ after her" Thus warned the girl did
/ not show up to occupy her old room,
/ but it was learned that she might pos
sibly be found around the headquar-
1 tiers of the Salvation army on Cons
! mercial street.
( Deputies Miller and Thomas camped
/ in the vicinity of the army barracks
/ last night until 10 o'clock. when sure
enough Dutch Annie" hove in sight
| and was taken under tow to the cOuE-
ty bastile. When questioned by Sher-
/ iff Hardy, Miss Peterson did not talk
much like girl that had been wronged
or could be very badly damaged. She
! declared she had not been raped; that
she had never had anything to do with
Mr.. Meldrum. but had stayed one night
with Mrs. Medium in Sandy. When
put under the sweat box influence she
finally said that she had heard of some
such an affair as a rape, but that the
victim was her sister, now in Ogden
No amount of quiZZing would make her
change this story.
Finally Medium was bought from
his cell to face Miss Peterson. As he
{
hello Annie; they've got you at last,
have they2"
Miss Peterson seemed to be very
much put out by this sudden and I'M
expected appearance of Meldrum, and
she commenced to abuse him and call
him names in the Danish tongue,
which. while it could not be understood.
was gesticulative evidence that Annie
was angry with Medium for admit
ting that he had had anything to do
with her, or that she was the girl at
all.
She finally admitted that Meldrum
had gotten her drunk, but would not
say anything further. 1t may have
been a case of adultery that the five
witnesses saw near the State road, but
rape is apparently foreign to the facts
in the issue.
Annie said she had joined the Saliva
ton army about a year ago, and oscil-
lated between the poke bonnet and
tanlbourfne and anything else What
came in sight, mostly the anything
else.
Medium is under 81 600 bonds. and
the trial of the rape case is set for to-
day before Commissioner Norris SOM
mers.
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