Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1898-05-20
BRUTAL ASSAULT.
FRANK JELLISON IN THE
TOLLS
For aRattemptsd Outrage on the Per-
son q Little insz Armstrono-The
GIfl Only Ten Years Old and Hall
Blind The Fathers Rage.

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son Of Little insz The
Glsi Only Ten Years Old and Hall
Blind The Fathers Rage.
Violent assault Was made on the
person It little ten year old Inez Arm
strong Yesterday afternoon by Frank
Jelllson. . railroad man, late of Ham
ilton. q. Jellison was arrested and
placed N the city prison to await the
action OF the police court.
Yesterday afternoon little lnez Arm
stron0s Just turned ten years of age,
Was waking along north G street, near
the old ol mill. going toward the home
of her grandfather, where she has
been living, when she was overtaken
by q nan, Frank Jellison, better
known as Windy Jellis,n. The man
was friendly to the little girl, talking
to her and walking along with her.
The li.tie girl Is an invalid and her
bad eye-sight makes her even more
timid than the delicate child usually
is. Tie man walked with her a short
distance, and then enticed her to 60
with him up the bank east of the old
Frienos' church. When he had gotten
her out of sight from either street, he
committed brutal assault upon the
little girl, and would have succeeded
in ac omplishing her ruin had he not
been seen by q colored man who had
seen the man help the little girl up the
bank. and who had been suspicious.
Whea discovered in his vile attempt,
Jelltscn went away at once. and the
little girl jumped up and started to
run. She had been frightened into
accompanying the man up the bank,
and when he committed the assault she
was still more frightened. As she
stated to run away, she was enable TO
see clearly, on account of her naturally
defective eye-sight and the fright she
wss in and she fell over high bank,
| roting clear to the bottom. There she
| w9s picked up considerably bruised
and more dead than alive. After she
w3s taxed to her home she told her
story to her grandparents. The
Igtl's father was also apprised, and
hid he found the man he would not
hive lived to be arrested. The faith
ei's name is George Armstrong, and
ht is the well-knOwn house-moving
c@ptractor on north thirteenth street.
Tie case was reported to the police
r4her tardily, the crime being CON-
mftod about 3 p. m. and the police
gdting no notice until about 4. Pa
trolman McManus started to search for
the man, and with the aid of Mr.. Wes-
tenberg, the first named officer found
his man about 8:15, crossing the rail
road toward the hide house of Glen
n h~A
/ duty over time in order to make the
arztst IS he bad already started to
ma parlier in the day and had noticed
+ had begun drinking.
arrested. Jellison first claimed
lnn eence. and then that he had MOI
bee4 himself and had not realized whai
he i'd done. He was placed in the
city prison and remains there. He
broke down and blubbered a little
when taken to the station.
The little girl is not injured beyond
the bruises she sustained when falling
down the bank. All last night shs
was violently i'll from the fright sh,
had received .and was almost in spasms
She lives with her grandfather at 1925
north G street.
| Greasy Mike Gleason, partner
of Jellison, was arrested by Westen
berg later on, and was this morning
fined $5 and costs for vagrancy.
Jellison has been employed at Ham
ilton in the railroad yards, and tn
stories as to his previous reputation
are varied. Some of the railroad mel
say he recently was released from th'
Ohio penitentiary at Columbus, wher'
he had been doing time for killing I
man at Hamilton. Others say he ha.
been in trouble, but had not dom
thine.
Jellison is said also to have beel
Icompelled to leave Eaton, o., som
months ago for an offense similar :,
1.-THE one of which he was guilty yestel
lday.
The preliminary will probably |
had tomorrow.