The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-10
ANACONDA News.
is CHARGED WITH RAPE
William Verify, Who Has Been in
Trouble Before, Under Arrest.
STORY is A fITIFUL ONE
Alleged Victim of the Outrage a Grip
pied Girl Who Is in Bad Health.
Verify Attacks the Girls
Character.
STORY is A fITIFUL ONE

William Verify, -browed, repul-
sive-featured young man, who gives his
age as %. was arrested yesterday after
noon on Chestnut street by Deputy
Sheriff Joe Daily, charged with rape
When arraigned later in the day before
Justice William Devine, Verify broke
forth into a trade of obscenity in
which he declared his innocence and
questioned the character of the girl he
i is charged with outragng
Floria Majors, a 20-year-old girl, who
resides with her mother, Mrs. Louisa
Majors, a widow, at 113 Ash street, is
the alleged victim of the assault. She
is a cousin and also a sister-in-law of
Verify, he having married her sister.
Verify is now seeking divorce from his
wife.
The girl claims the assault was COM
mitted on the night of Thursday, Aug.
5. According to the story told by her
and her mother, Verify was at their
house Thursday and claimed to have
secured position on the B., A. & P.
railway. The Majors family has rela-
tives in Butte. IF you want to go up
and see any of them" Verify is report
ed having said, why, I'll pass YOU
Floria Majors is a weak, sickly girl,
and is a cripple. She has little oppor-
tunity of going out, SO joyfully seized
this opportunity and prepared herself
for the journey that very evening.
Verify took her down town only to find
there would be no train for some time.
He persuaded her to go with him to the
Arlington lodging house, corner of
Front and Oak streets. He left her in
the parlor there and went out.
After an hour or so had passed he
came back and told her the train would
not go until after o'clock. He ordered
supper for the two and it was brought
up to them on tray. After they had
eaten he went out again.
Upon his return he told the girl the
train would not go until late in the
night. He went to the proprietor of
the lodging house and secured a room
to which he took the girl. She declares
he there outraged her and took her
rings and other valuables from her,
making trips out of the room several
times, on which she says he sold the
articles he had stolen from her and
procured whiskey with the proceeds.
The night Waterman of the lodging
house says that between and o'clock
in the morning the girl came out of the
the man had robbed her. He was in
the room at the time drunk and sleep
ing. The girl wanted him arrested, but
the Waterman says he could find nc
policeman. She was taken to her hons
and there she told her mother about
the matter. As result the girl signed
complaint last Saturday, charging
Verify with rape. Since then the sher.
ifs officers have been looking for the
man. He was at first supposed to be
in Butte, but a search there failed tC
find him.
Yesterday afternoon Verify came into
town and presented himself for a few
moments at the Majors home. On his
leaving Mrs. Majors sent word to the
sheriff's office. All the deputies start
ed on a hunt for him. 1t was the for.
tune of Joe DAILY to see him first an6
take him into custody.
Verify at first denied his identity, but
when the deputy sheriff made him rol
up his sleeve and exhibit a tattooing OF
the Golden Gate Verify admitted he was
the man. He has been working fol
Thomas Ford, farmer residing neal
Stuart, and he came to town riding onC
of Mr.. Fords horses.
Verify entered Judge Devines cour
room with an air of braVado wher
brought up for arrangement. He ha!
singularly repulsive mouth, from
which the upper lip curls back in a pc
culiar manner. AL his features ar
coarse and his manner and languag,
is that of tough
Not guilty" he pleaded, when Prose
cutting Attorney Duffy read the com
plant. The names of Flora Majors
and the night Waterman at the Airing