The San Francisco call., 1897-06-29
HOUNDS ON
{ THE TRAIL
OF A FIEND
People of DoWney Vow
Vengeance Upon
an Abductor.
STEALS A GIRL FROM
HER BEDROOM.
She Is Detained in a Lonely
Spot Near Her Fathers
Ranch.
STEALS A GIRL FROM
HER BEDROOM.
LYNCHING MAY FOLLOW HIS
CAPTURE.
Third Case of the Kind In That
Vicinity Within the Past
N Two Weeks.

LOS: ANGELES, CAL, June 2S.-Two
Deputy Sheriffs. with a brace of blood
hounds, start to-day in pursuit of man
who is supposed to be roaming in the
vicinity of Downey. The unknown man
Is accused of having committed a crime so
foul that should he chance to fall into the
hands of an enraged populace his life
would pay the penalty. The story of the
crime is much like that recently told OF
an attempted abduction in Azusa, save
that this was carried further.
Miss Lee Mayne is the daughter of c.
/. Mayne, respectable citizen of Downey.
She is only u or l3 years old, and slight
in frame even for one of her age. At
about u o'clock last night she was partly
aroused, she says, by a noise near her
bed, but was too drowsy to know what
was happening. Though she lid not real
ize it then, it appears from her story that
she was taken up by soma man, carried
out Of the house through the front door,
and, as she was belng lifted over a fence
about seventy-five feet from the house,
her aDductor chanced to let her fail. This
awakened her. She would have cried out.
but the man held his hand over her mouth.
Kesumlng his burden, he continued his
flight.
In this manner the abductor carried the
child across the meadows, over several
more fences, to point distant fully a
half mile from the Mayne domIcile At
last he stopped and put down his burden.
be detained her there for some time, and
then, giving the child her shoes and stock
lngs, which he had carried in his pockets
he told her to 60 home, cautioning her not
10 tell what had happened, as il would
probably cause him to be killed and would
hurt. her reputation. The girl says he
asked her If she knew him, and she re-
pied Yes" giving him the name OF cer-
tain weil-knOwn citizens Of Downey.
line grrlt clad only In her night robe,
sped. hOmeward and met ner frightened
father and mother to whom she told her
STORY. The father sent word at once to
this city. and Under Sheriff Clement and
Deputy Sheriff White went to the scene at
daylgh taking with him two blood hounds.
The officers heard the story, gave the dogs
the scent and a search began.
The fiend had left near the house a pair
OF No. 10 shoes, which may or may not
nave belonged to him, but that he wore
stockings only when he left the girl seems
q aconceded fact. The dogs followed the
trial 10 the spot where he had liberated
Miss Mayne and then continued for mile
or more further TO the railroad track,
where they gave up the scent. The
Under-Sheriff and his deputy abandoned
the search. after detailing the two other
deputies upon it. and the latter are yet
trying to-run down the abductor.
The man who was named by the girl a
her assaiIant was found and taken before
her, but she said that he was not the one,
though he resembled him. As she de-
scribed the man he was about five feet six
inches in height, wore a light cap and had
a mustache, out she could not say what
kind of clothes he wore. She believes
she was under the influence of some drug.
The negro, Jasper Wood, who was ar
rested on suspicion of being the person
who attempted to abduct glrl at Azusa,
is vet Ia jail here, so he, cannot be impli-
Gated in the Downey episode, but there
axe people who believe the abductions at
Azusa, Glendora and Downey were all
com mitted by the same individual, who
will be given short shrift if caught.