The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-01
Ogden, May 1.
GROWS WORSE.
THE SENSATIONAL CASE WITH THE
LITTLE GIRLS.
Guilt of the Fellows Arrested Would
Seem to Be Beyond All Question
Awful Warming to Parents

on charges of attempted rape. AT first
the crime alleged seemed too helnous
to be true, bat as the day wore on,
horrible details were oftener charged
than they were denied, and the hearing
of Shine before Justice Rank was anX-
iously awaited. The police would give
no information whatever and al the
hearing doors were closed alike against
all-reporterS anG attorneys even be-
ing excluded. However, it was learned
that the testimony was of the most
disgusting nature. Prosecuting A,ttor-
ney Weber conducted the prosecution,
but the prisoner had no counsel, H
W. Eldridge, together with his wife
and their little daughter Lucy, who is
said to be the victim of the brutes
lust, were present, and also Dan Lind
say, his wife and their little daughter
Jennie. The two little girls were the
main witnesses. and it is significant
that early in the proceedings a more
serious charge than the one of at
tempted rape preferred by Eldridge
was sworn to by Lindsay, who charged
Shine with the rape of Lucy Lindsay
The testimony was of the most dis
gushing character imaginable and
shows depths of degradation well nigh
inconceivable Not line of it could
be published. One liutle hunchback
girl, known Familiarity as ''Tilly, was
also a witness but it is known that her
testimony was simply to the effect
that she had gone as far as the alley
in the rear of the Cohen store with
the Lindsay girl and had seen her en-
ter the rooms.
eat the conclusion of the hearing
Shine was bound over on both charges
in the sum of $1,000 on the lesser
charge and $4,000 on the other. The
bond was not furnished. The Cohens
will have a hearing Friday at O'Clock.
They have engaged Evans q Rogers
to defend them and early yesterday
morning a mortgage was executed on
the stock of goods belonging to Cohen
in favor of Marshall e. McCready and
Evans & Rogers. The first named firm
have a claim of SIS against the stock.
The police have made every effort
to keep the matter quiet. The first
reason was that the mothers o. the
little girls shrink from notoriety and
it was feared they would not appear
or allow their children to appear unless
the affair was managed with all posi-
BILE secrecy.
In fact, it was because the parents
insisted that the newspaper men and
the public generally were excluded
from the examination this afternoon.
1t is known almost to a certainty that
several ether little girls have been
misused by the fiends, but the parents
of the girls do not wish to have them
come into court However, it is certain
that several others will appear and
give testimony against, some one If
not all three of the brutes. 1t is now
known beyond a doubt that the crime
was committed UPON the Lindsey girl
aged 9, and the Eldrfdge girl, aged
10. The two girls were taken this after
noon to the Office of Doctors Rich &
Rich and a thorough medical eXalnina
ton made. The result proved beyond a
doubt that they had been awfully mis-
treated.
The evidence is supposed to have
been Overwhelmingly strong in the case
of the Lindsey girl, for her father i'm
mediately swore out a complaint
against Shine, charging him with rape,
whereas the charge in the case of the
Eldridge girl was only attempted rape.
The developments have set people to
thinking and now the methods by
which the little girls were enticed
within their clutches are we'll known.
Some of them live a distance OF sew
eral blocks from the place, but it was
the custom of Shine and the others to
give them candy, pencils and other
nicknacks whenever they would visit
the store The police department has
long looked upon the place with sus-
picion and has been trying to get de-
finite charges against the occupants
of the rooms back of the Cohen store,
but without success until lately. They
had the matter we'll under way when it
was precipita ted by Bldridge.
He had learned Of the attempt on his
girl He has been an invalid for over
a year. barely able to be about, hut he
set out to find Shine. His quiet 1eter-
mination' aroused an officer already on
his guard and he finally elected from
Eldridge the story of his little girl.
Eldridge was finally induced to go
back home and let the officers attend to
the man. This was on Monday. Shine
was showed and last night was ar
rested The two Cohens began to pre-
pare for leaving town. but their arrest
last night prevented them. 1t is stated
on good authority that the Lindsey girl
and the Eldredge girl told of the prac-
tees of all three of the criminals upon
them They told it before several mem
beers of the two families and before one
or two police officers. AS the investiga-
lions proceeded the matter became
more revolving. People who heard the
testimony say it was most shocking
and showed greater depths of Gegra-
dation than they thought could posi-
Oily exist anu IUdI the case VI lIC SCel
captain in San Francisco a few months
ago pales in insignificance to the hor-
rors of this one, as does every other
case of the kind they have ever read
or heard of
This evening the county officers quiet
ly removed Shine from the city to the
county Jail. where he is being strongly
guarded. A good deal of desultory talk
about lynching has been INDUCED in
I
as the conviction fastens itself on the
people that the men are guilty. 1t is
noticed tonight that every officer, both
of the day and of the night shift, is on
guard, most of them being at the city
jail
The sheriff. too, is vigilant and has
all his deputies on guard. The result
of the Doctors examinations and even
the fact that such examinations have
been made have been kept from the
public carefully. This is certainly a
wise precaution on the part of the Off
GERS. in view eff the excited state of
public feeling.
Cohen, the elder, made an assign
ment this afternoon to George H.
Tribe, whose building he occupied, but
as he had already executed a mortgage
in the morning TO pay Marshall IL Nc
Ready's claim and to secure attorneys,
1t is Hkely tnat the rent Dill Will re-
main unpaid. He is a large, rather
corpulent looking man with gray hair.
He has always borne good reputation
for business honesty. The son and
Dan Shine are well known in the lower
levels of society. Moses Cohen, the
son, was arrested about six months ago
on the charge of burglary and was
saved from a term in the pen by his
father squaring the matter. All three
of the men seemed to keep aloof from
their fellows in a great measure, and
i few knew ANYTHING about them One