The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-28
PURSUED BY NJ MEN.
uryr FOR 4 Ro VINO ASSAULT
I'D 4 SIy-rEAR-oLD GIRL.


IN A SIy-TEAR-OLD GIRL.
In His wight He sciued Two Other Girls in y
Merry Patch. but They Es~cnped-Thc
N,xro Afterwnrd Attacked = woman.
VINO Had n Terrible struggle with the
w~retrh-CauEht by Constable bradley and
Landed tn JniI-An Angry Mob Threatened
10 Lynch the Negro. and the Father OF The
cir, Attempts to shoot Him. but the Con-
stable, with Drawn Pistols. Protects Him.
KINGSTON, Aug. 27.-while a hundred armed
nep were searching for him in the wrong direc.
ZION. Joseph Dcpew. the negro who assaulted
Michael poody's six-year-old daughter at Hick.
ory Bush this morning, was captured by Con.
,teble James Bradley late in the afternoon, and
"a snow safely lodged in Jail here. There was a
demonstration at Roseudale, where the negro
was arraiSned before Police Justice Brown. and
pooay made an attempt to shoot down his
aaushter's assailsnt, but he was held. and Con-
,able Bradley brou ght the prisoner through UNI
hurt. though badly frightened. The little girl Is
tar. IDLY injured, and al tho latest report Is do
lirious from the shock, but the doctors say that
she will recover.
Among his fellow workmen at the Lawrence
Cement Company's works in Hickory Bush. De-
pew has always passed for a quiet. harmless
follow, whose only fault was a certain shiftless-
ness. He Is married and has one child. and 10
about 80 years old. 1t was his shiftlessness
which caused his discharge last week, and since
then he has been drinking rather heavily. Last
night he told his wife that he was going to look
for another Job. and early this morning he
started from home ostensibly for that purpose.
Not far from where he lives is the home
of Michael Doody, a miner In the employ of the
cement company. Doody's two daughters
Sarah, s years old. and Mamie. O years old
we're out picking blackberries on the hills about
half a mile from the house, at about s O'Clock.
when they saw Depew. whom they knew by
sight. coming through the undeIbrush from the
roadway not far distant. 1t was not until he
spoke to the older girl that the children knew
their peril. Then they started to run, but the
negro seized little Mamie. Hearing her screams
Sarah stopped, irresolute, but when Depew
threatened her she ran for the house, reaching
there SO exhausted that she had barely breath
enough TO pant out disjointed words about q
darby who was killing Mamie.
Mrs. Doody sent for her husband, and as soon
as Sarah had sufficiently recovered to act as
guide she started for the berry patch. with Doody
and a dozen of his fellow miners following.
Mamie was found unconscious, and a trail Of
footsteps and bent bushes showed that the as
sai.ant had made for the well-wooded hill.
Swiftly the alarm spread, and in half an hour
fifty miners, armed with guns, pistols, cluba,
knives, and axes, were beating the hill with saw
age thoroughness. led By Doody. to whom some
one had given a revolver. Their search led
them in the most likely direction the negro
would take, over that part OF the hill where the
woods are thickest- But the negro had O long
start. and he had half doubled on his track anC
crossed the hill further down, heading for Rock
Lock. some two miles. Here on the Rosendalt
80 - 49, ha1f , ln1ap Iit-la Dirla ont mir h
their baskets for q mornings berryinR in the
fields. -
At this time Depew must have known that the
utue girl who had escaped him would have
given tho alarm. and that men would DO hunt
ing him for his life. Perhaps for that very rea
son, and because he was an outlaw and a prey
to any man who chose TO hunt him down. ht
gave free rein 10 his brutality. Running at the
little girls, he seized two of them and began tt
DRAG them toward the woods. One Of them brok,
away. The other, s-year-old Annie Collins, ht
caught up in his arms and started to rur
but the child fought with such desperation thaI
he could make but little Roadway through The
tar-le OF brush. The other children were run
ming toward the nearest house, with screams fol
help. and this must have alarmed Depew, for h,
dropped Annie Collins unhurt. save for a few
bruises, and ran down the road toward Rosen
dale.
About a quarter of a mile down the road is tn,
house OF Owen Murray. Mrs. Murray was a
the spring in the back yard drawing water wher
the negro came in at q rapid walk. On seeing
her he stopped short. Where's your man q
he asked. 1t did not occur TO Mrs. Murray q
first that there was any threat in the question
shc is not Of n timid disposition by nature
Moreover, sne is a large. muscular woman, Will,
the negro was hardly OF medium height ant
spare. She answered his question and put on,
OF her own.
He's down the road a piece" she said. "Dit
you hear some sort OF a fuss up the road hv,
minutes agof l thought I heard somebod,
BcrHeching."
The negro jumped straight for her throat A
the first shock she went down. and he spranI
upon her, setting his knee on her chest. but sh
threw him of, and before his gripping finger
could close on her throat she had struggled L
her knees. Again he forced her back. an,
this time she ~grappled him around the nee
and huFged him until he was glad to breaI
loose. Near by was the dead limb of a tree. II
rar to- II, picked 1t up, and the next moment wa
struggling in the woman's grasp. for she kne,
thai her chance in attack was better than Il
night. They struggled for what seemed to III
woman Ike hours: At first Mrs. Murray ha
Rcresne6 for help. but as no one came abe save
IL was a full hall, hour after Depew had at
Taxed tho little girls in the roadway who
$3.50 "bo "a hOtaAL tAS NhilAAA IA . BUT
came running down toward the Murray house
hearing their shouts, the negro gathered hi
strength and struck Mrs. Murray a blow on tn
tempe that knocked her down, and ran acros
me held toward the hillside. The men he!pe
Mrs. Murray TO the house. Her clothing wa
sosn half of, and her face and chest were tel
He could never have conquered me" sh
taid. unless he killed me. and ! don't believ
ne could do. that. What 1 was most afraid G
was that he would find a loose rock or stick an
thock me senseless with it. Three times whe
nc had stopped to get breath he tried TO pick u
hcinb, but ! Rrappled him each time"
ord OF the assault on the Doody child an,
notice 10 look out for the negro had now bee
feeeiyed in Rosendnle, and Constable jaime
Srna!ey set out Tor Rock Lock, Judging that tn
fugitive might have crossed the hills there. III
learned OF the attack on the party OF girls an
on Mis-. Murray at about 1 o'clock, and car
across a man who had seen q negro runnin
across lots toward the Greenkill woods, a patio
ot very thick forest on the side OF III
NIL Bradley had We reyolvers. He Sc
out alone for Greenkill woods. For ha
an hour he pushed through the densost part
me Hoo"s, startled a score OF times by the rus
OF hare or the flight Of u coYey OF frightene
phrtIliEeg into the nalief thar Ia had fIna IL