The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-01
LOUIS TURNER CAUGHT
YOUNG MOBILE MAN CHARGED
 WITH GRAVE CRIME. !.
frequent Attempts to Assault White Women Have Resulted in His
 Arrest and Identification by Young Woman.

Mobile, Sept. S0.-6peciaD-For 30. some time the residents of the southw estern excitement bordering on frenzy over the midnight acts of some unknown person, who for better name has been denomi- have consisted in frequent assaults main ly through open windows on. sleeping females-so frequent, in fact, that that fy wrought up and for . time large crowds of men and boys patroUedr the streets ostensibly to aid the police, who seemed powerless to turn up tine guilty These citizen posses became so wrought up as each assault occurred that 1t final ly became dangerous for negro to be seen walking the streets in that portion of the city and on one occasion an innocent negro of some responsibility was shot at and chased while returnins from finally issued orders for the disband- ment of these self-constituted citizen pos see. !, .ra isSts sso on Mas Mise f Katie % Dumas who was the recipient of severe wound in the head. Since that time the police have been working diligently .on the case. and yesterday morning they had mads such good progress that they arrested Louis Turner, an 1S-year-old white youth. and charged him with attempted criminal before the girl and she positively identf- fled him as her assailant. although at the time of the assault the girl claimed that she had no knowledge of the assault till she recovered consciousness and was found by her brother with. blood stream ing from a wound in the head.
 Tn enE of Srnen of ene esf of Police 'e
 ''The police learned several days ago that Miss Dumas had told the members of her family second story of the ast sault and different from her first report. 1 saw her and learned that her assaiiant had been in her rom some time before he struck her. He had talked to her and had threatened to kill her if she made an outcry or told anyone he. had been in the house. She persisted in refusing his
 The girl was very badly affected by the threats and the blow and 1t was only after much persuasion that she would tell the true story.
 Saturday Officers Cherry and Brown went to Turner's house at so4 South Broad Street and brought him to the star tion Owing to the girls nervous S,,, coni. ,ssn- tified Saturday. told Turner was after some information about something. but was not ready to talk to him yet. l told ing and then let him go home, He did not come Sunday and officer Cherry went out after him and brought him in I took him out to the Dumas home.
 When he first entered the room the girl glanced at him and lowered her eyes. She said T don't think this Is the
 
 of hysteria, and Turner was quickly taken from the room. then, soothed Miss Dumas, telling her he could not harm her, and telling her to be calm and answer truthfully as to his Identity When she became quiet. she asked if Fur ner had big hands. I replied that I had not noticed his hands, and she then ex- pressed a wish to see him again. Turner was brought back into the room. She looked at his hands and then straight in- to his face. Then she said Yes. that is AIzA~. brought Turner back to the police station
 ''I have since learned from Miss Dumas that when she was first confronted by Turner and asked to identify him, he nod SAY No She was still afraid of him. have also learned more positively the purpose of Turner's visit to the girls room. and have. therefore: made the change of attempted criminal assault Turner has been in trouble Njth the po- lice before." CTS Court this morning. but on the re quest of the police. was continued till Saturday morning. Turner claims he was as home at 9:30 o'clock the night of the assault, and that he can prove an alibi.
 There was a shooting afray at Plateau. three miles north of the city. Sunday during which Robert Taylor shot William Brown. The bullet entered Browns body on the left side under the heart. making a dangerous wound: Taylor was captur-
  the name of vigilance committee of that locality.
 Oscar Mann. convicted at the last term of the City Court of the murder of Claude Norden, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. and who has been lying in the county jail since his conviction. awaiting the action of his attorney relative to an appeal to the Supreme Court, was taken to Dolve today to serve out his sentence with the Hand Lumber Company. Mann talked volubly with his trlends al tne sheriff's office before leaving,
 The Workingmen's Timber and Cotton Benevolent Association dedicated a mag nificent monument yesterday in its lot in Magnolia cemetery. The dedication was made by Rev. Father Doyle.
 The following appointments have been made by President Wilson of the Con eoIidateH Street Railroads: s. M. Coffin Chief Electrician and Master Mechanic :; Charles Jenkinson, Track Foreman; Dr. W. E. Ward. Surgeon; J. s. Johnson, A. (. Thomson and w. S. Timberlake, h. epectors