The herald., 1896-10-09
THE pasadena RAPE CASE
Lucy Daughterman a Well
Spoken Maid
lRliCHiIECI VnKs co1IlG -i PLANS I
A Death Trap Reported Near the
Crematory
A LOCAL INSOLVENCY CASE
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In Bank
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The Divorce Mill Ran Merrily Yester-
day-C. B. Mcdowell Sent to High
lands-The Sixth Street Improve
ment Under Amusement.

The Pasadena rape case served to fill
department one yesterday with crowd
Of curious onlookers Of both sexes.
Cases of this peculiar character are
exceptional in this that however the
jury may decide the girl suffers. She
must leave the court after having every
womanly instinct Of modesty outraged; !;
her unhappy condition blazoned to the
world she is the focus for every eye to
fasten upon. and even in the event Of the
outrager being sent to states prison
her lot must be cast in the by-ways of
life in order that she may hide her un-
deserved shame from the public eye.
Lucy Daughterman, the complainant
in the present case. is now over Is years
Of age and is quite well-formed and
rather pretty girl.
Upon the witness stand she told her
story very glibly and in an apparently
straightforward manner. It was in June,
1895, about two months before the girls
fourteenth birthday, that F. e. Simons
outraged her in the hayloft on his own
premises. He repeated the offense on
several occasions had threatened to
kill Lucy If she ventured to tell her
mother. Scared Of her life the child SUBJ
mitted.
Attorneys Phillips. Ladd and Hughes
are representing the defendant and SUBJ
jected the girl to rigid cross-examina-
ton for several hours. The most deli
cate and what ought to be sacred details
were banded back and forth in the at
tempt to tangle the witness UP. The
strain was too great for the girl and
more than once the slowly yelling tears
eliminated in a fit of bitter weeping ap-
preaching almost to Mysteries. Upon re-
covering she answered piteously, when
questioned as to her present answers
being in contradiction to those given at
the preliminary examination. II am
telling the truth; If I said that then /
was mistaken, but didn't intend to tell
a lie.''
Mrs. Daughterman married Mr.. Hol-
ding and the family were on terms of
close intimacy with that of the defend
ant. Lucy was permitted to go to the
Simons home and remain for two or
three days at time Throughout the case
is q barely discernible thread of an
tagonism between the families which,
1t is claimed, Is the reason for Lucy'S
misfortune being carried into court.
Albeit rumors were current regarding
the intimacy that had existed between
Simons and the GIRL the mother did not
challenge her daughter or make, appar-
emily, any close investigation until
nearly asyear later. Lucy stated,yester-
day that she told about what had hap
pened to Lulu Sutherland, little friend
of hers, and no one else. She positively
stated too, that Mrs. Simons, who was
lying ill at the time Mr.. Simons was pur-
suing her, knew of what was going on.
Altogether the case presents a nasty
mess of salasious detail that will prob
ably be continued throughout the re-
mainder of the week.