The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-25
ASSAULT BY TWO NEGROES
LUCIEN H. SANDERS AND "A LADY SCI
UPON Ar SOLDIERS HOME.
HundredsSf Citizens Joined Police in a Frui.-
less Search Sanders Refused t, s tate
the Name of his Girl Companion,
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washington Post,)
Hundreds of citizens, men and boys,
assisted the reserve of the Eighth pre-
cinct last night in search for the body
of girl supposed to have been killed or
grievously assaulted by two negroes, on
First street northwest, near the Soldiers
Home gate. Her companion, Lucien
I'll. Sanders, of Raleigh, n. c., living
at 1909 IL street northwest, reported the
assault at the gate and with assist
ance, returned to find the girl. She was
gone and the report spread that she had
been dragged into the woods and proba-
bly, murdered. She was found to have
escaped from the negroes and TO have
returned to her home in this city. San.
ders absolutely refused to give the name
or address of the girl, and would only
say that she was not hurt.
When two boys rode to the Eightn
Precinct station and announced that a
young white man and woInan had been
assaulted near the Soldiers Home gate,
and the woman could not he found, the
reserve was sent out at once, REINFORCED
by the bicycle squad and rs fnany other
officers as could be spared. A system
attic search was made in every direc-
ton from the point where the assault
was committed, and nearly 500 people
joined in the search.
Sanders was not explicit in stating the
circumstances of the affair. He said
that about 8 o'clock he and the girl Were
about 100 yards from the gate, and were
ON the vacant ground near the sidewalk
when two negroes came upon them. One
caught hold Of Sanders and threw him
ON his back. The negro tried to hold
both Sanders wrists with one hand and
beat him ON the head with rock held
IN the other but Sanders, after a strng-
gle, broke away, and ran toward the
gate, pursued for some distance by the
negro. He said he did not see what
had become of the girl. He found the
gate-keepers wife, and gave her his
watch and all the money he had, and
after trying to get some ONE to 90 back
with him, started alone to look for the
girl. lie was soon joined by other per
sons. He could mot find the girl, and
his hat, which he had lost in the strug-
gle, and his coat, which was off nj the
time of the assault, had also disap-
peared.
After searching for about two hours
Sanders rode back to town ON his wheel.
which was found with the girls, where
they had been left. He went 10 the
girls house, and says she told him that
the negro who tried to drag her into the
woods had stopped to pick mp Sanders
hat, and when he did so she broke away
from him and ran toward the ears. Shf
succeeded in making her escape without
injury. More than this about his Gem.
palpion nothing, not even his brief deten.
ton us a United States witness, would
induce the young man to say. He has
a cut under his left ear, from which
the blood had flown and stained his col
lar. Policeman Draeger found Sanders
hat about two squares from the scene
of the assault.
Several suspects We're picked up by tina
police of the Eighth and brought to the
station for Sanders to look at and ii
possible identify as his assailants. TT
denied that amy shown him We're. the meg
Who had assaulted him and his com
panion.(