The sun., 1897-07-07
rs TROOPS AFTER JONES.
vr, FORMER PALS TALK OF EARRING
OR LYNCHING HIM.

-, Returning Early Yesterday n1orning
-, n Picnic He Intercepted lGirs Anna
T,rviligcr on tho Highway at Irishlnsd
r.l,, and Assaulted uer--Not Caught Yet.
MAINLAND FALLS, n. Y, July 0.-As q result
:, ,oo much revery at the Cars picnic last
,,,ht ono OF tho picnickers is fugitive from
.o.tloe. His fellow picnickers are talking of
,rn,h law and tar and feathers and q company
:, limited states soldiers aro hunting the noun
,sins for him.
Thu Cars picnic is q benefit for Foreman
s,,yens OF the Goodsell Hose. II is held every
,,,r at Kruso's Grove. Stevens is known here
,bou,s as tho Car. At midnight ono OF the
drunken individuals at tho picnic was Edward
lanes, 90 years old, half brother of Hugh Jonos,
Nsw York policeman. He has served q bob
,,Il enlistment in the cavalry detachment at
west Point, but was dishonorably discharged
,vo years ago for general worthlossness He
disappeared from tho picnic grounds rather
earlier than the rest OF those who had set out to
make night OF 1t.
At o'clock this morning O. II. Stark, q
psvsdealer. was driving down the winding hill
road TO the railroad station. He heard woman
,creaming In the bushes below tho road, and
,sv Jones struggling with rather pretty girl.
10 shouted. Jones desisted and the girl came
running up to Stark.
"That man has my erip," she said.
"Bring this girls grip hero" called Stark.
The young man. looking very sheepish, obeyed.
"You arc in nice buniness. aren't you r. said
Stark, anRrily. Jones replied that the girl had
been with him from tho beginning of the picnic,
and no didn't know what she was making
such row about. The girl did not contradiot
the statement at the time, and 30 Stark lot
Jones 70, and started 10 take her to the station.
On tho way she told him that she had mover
seen Jones before. She said that she was
Miss Anna Terwiligor Of Walden. whero
tho was clerk In millinery shop, She
had been passing the Fourth with Minnie
Barrett, the daughter Of Q Highland Falls gro
cor. She left the house at A:3o O'Clock, and
would let none OF the family accompany her TO
she was not afraid. Jones was sitting on the
roadside fence as abe came down the Hill, and
70 hurry by him he attacked her she ssid' and and
Stark Imm msdistsly .ooE her back to Grocer
Rhlnehardt and Constable Augustus Ellers, As.
pisted by ton or twelve citizens who had not
ssn roods at the 10 pSns ns sss s.S set Spt
West Point, heard OF the occurrence, he detailed
fifteen soldiers TO- assist in the search. After the
he west bank of the river were rinRinT With thse
cries Of the searchere.
The plcnickers, VINO began to gtragHlo into
town at or 8 o'clock this morning, sieepy and
ugly, started the talk Of tarring and feather
ing and lypching. They said that Jones had
disgraced the picnic, which, though not orderly,
bad always been kept within lawful bounds.
They said that for Jones to 60 abroad on the
highway attacking lono women was puro wan.
tonness when there were girls to spare ct tho pic
mic. Tho more they talked the uglier was their
tome They did not take part in the hunt for Jones
They said that there was NO use looking for him
that he was on In tho woods, somewhere, asleep,
and that when he woke up he would come into
town; Then they said they would string him
un Jones, though long known a. lazy and
shiftless, had mover been thought dangerously
vicious. BE had always boon regarded as one Of
the quietest young men about the town.
Miss Terwlliger ts 10 years old; che n very
face Of the childish type. She passed July IN
from this neighborhood. In the party were her
Troy Laundry Works In Poushkeepsie, and her
night. It 10 Characteristic Of the Giris sim.
plicity that she was induced to wait until this
morning BY the promise that II she stayed abe
might see the Albany night boat 70 mp the
river throwing its searchlight over the noun.
tains on each side.
Jones had not been caught at O'Clock this
evening.
At the request Of the authorities Misc Terwili.
ger win stay in town until he 10 arrested. Dr. q.
y. Brown, the Barrotts' physician, said that
she was not injured except by fright, and, a. far
as her physical condition was concerned, might
20 homo at any time.