Bisbee daily review., 1903-07-22
LITTLE GIRL OUTRAGED
pEvILIsH ATTEMPT FRUSTRATED
 BY cHILD's AGE.
Little Florence Wimberly, Five Year Old Child, the Victim of Outrageous Conduct at Monsters Hands.
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Douglas, July 21.-Douglas has again been the scene of crime, and the details of devilish attempt to ravish mere child pale into insignificance the stories we hear daily of negro out. rageS perpetrated on women and children in the south and east
 Sunday afternoon at the Phoenix lodging house, roomer, whose name the mother of the child refuses to give, attempted to outrage the person of lit. tie 5-year-old Florence Wimberly. The child was missed from her usual haunts about the lower part of the house, and the anxious mother at once made search for her. For three hours the little one could not be found. When at last her whereabouts was dis covered, she was seen on an upper bal. cony, crying.
 At the time she refused to tell what was the matter with her, but told her mother that she was i'll. But little at tention was paid to the matter at the time, but later 1t was learned that she had been detained forcibly in one of the rooms of the house occupied by . man who worked at the smelter.
 As her illness continued Mrs. Win berly pressed her further for the story of her absence, when the little one de scribed the attempt of the human monster to ruin her life. The en | ragged mother then got a gun and pro, | ceeded to the room of her lodger, as directed by little Florence, and found the man who had made the dastardly | attempt in bed and asleep. Covering him with the gun, Mrs. Wimberly or dered him to come down stairs, telling him that upon the result of the doc tors examination rested his life. Doc tors Randall and Hickman were then called and made careful microscopic examination of the victim.
 All the time the doctors were work ing over the child, the frantic mother held the fiend at bay at the point oi the physicians decided that he had been guilty of her child's ruinatior she would send him to eternity. IT vain did he plead for mercy in sight of his little victim. At last the doc tors finished their work, and decided that despite his unnatural means tC effect the ruination of a mere chil she would recover fully from the ef fects of his animal-like attack. He was then given three hours ir which to leave the town. That hs Cook advanta9e of the opportunity goes without saying. for he has no been seen in the city since. nor has there been any light thrown on hi: identity. All that is known of tht man is that he had been employed al the shelter. To The Review reporter who was desirous of learning ths name of the man, Mrs. Wimberly re fused to grant permission to searct his effects. She also remained stead fast in her determination not to hay, his name made public when the off cers called at the house for the sam, purpose.
 There was much excitement abou Douglas when the truth of the sensa tion leaked out, and had it been pos sible to get hold of him there is n; telling what might have been his fate
 At last reports the Wimberly chilt was resting comfortably, and the doc tors say that after few days rest sh, will be as well as ever