The Delawarean., 1900-05-23
THREE MEN IN
AWFUL PLIGHT.
Held Without Bail in Georgetown
for Criminal Assault.
DRAGGED MISS TYRE INTO WOODS
The Alleged Assailants, All of Re-
spectacle Families, Admit They
Were With the Girl But
Committed No Crime

The lower section of Sussex county
was stirred to an intense feeling on
Sunday night by reported outrage
upon young woman of Baltimore
hundred.
The victim, Miss Marcella j. Tyre,
II years old and daughter of aged
Minos Tyre, was returning from church
at o'clock in the afternoon and had
consented to Everett Derrickson ac-
companying her, as he had been going
with other girls of her acquaintance.
According to the affidavits of Miss
Tyre, her father and her half-brother,
she had reached a wooded place along
the road, when Derrickson enticed her
into the woods, and there she discov-
cred two other young men, Elbert
Dawson and Harry Goodwin. The girl
attempted to flee, she says, when the
three men seized her, and muffiing her
cries, dragged her into the woods
where they assaulted her. Two of
them succeeded in their purpose and
the other was about to, when the girls
father was attracted to the place by her
smothered means and saw the appal-
ling sight, just before the trio had time
to make good their escape.
Searching parties were started out
at once, and at o'clock Monday morn
ing Attorney General White was sup
istrate Green of Baltimore hundred,
and soon after daylight Sheriff Short
had started out searching parties.
The three young men implicated by
Miss Tyre as being her assailants who
dragged her into the woods and there
outraged her, are now in Georgetown
Jail. They were arrested by Attorney
General White, who had traced them to
Berlin, Md. The attorney general was
assisted by a constable. When the
fugitives realize their position, they
consented to return to Delaware with
out requisition papers, although stout
any capital crime. Asked where they
were Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock, the
trio admitted having been on the spot.
They asked for a hearing in George
town, evidently fearing to return to
Baltimore hundred, and an examina-
tion was arranged for Tuesday morn
ing at 10 o'clock before Magistrate
Purnell.
When arraigned before Magistrate
Prnell in Georgetown yesterday all
three men waived hearing and were
committed without bail. John M.
Richardson appeared for them.
Everett Derrickson, the largest of the
three young white men thus committed
for October Court of Oyer and Termin-
er to be tried for their lives for felon-
iously assaulting Miss Marcella ]. Tyre
near Roxana i'm Baltimore hundred,
later made a statement since his COM
m.ltment which does not materially re-
lieve the strong public feeling against
the trio of well-dressed young fellows
Asked whether he knew very well
his 17-year-old victim, Derrickson said:
Il have been keeping company with
Miss Tyre for several months. Last
Sunday, a plot was made between Daw-
son, Goodwin and myself that I should
bring her Ito the woods, which ! did
Mo alarm was made by her until hel
father appeared on the scene, when she
screamed for help"
The statement was made in the pres.
ence of Goodwin and Dawson, who ad.
mitted that Miss Tyre met with i'm.
moral treatment from them, but thai
no assault was committed.
Acknowledgement White, who wenr
after the men and had them arrested
late i'm the afternoon at Berlin. Md.
alarmed the whole country hereabout:
as he passed Through. Fearing tina
the men might escape the sheriff't
searching parties, and thus open uI
this rural section to crimes of this
character, officers were summoned tt
meet the attorney general at ever,
station, where he gave them an ac
count of the affair and description o
the three men, In this way they wer
discovered at Berlin.