Evening journal., 1903-06-17

It's too bad. Mr. Francis; it's too bad. "
In an instant he recovered his composure
and in reply 20 other questions would say
noahing but, Now ] don't want to say
too much"
Story of Crime.
As the story Of the assault comes
out in all its details il shows a double
crime of the greatest daring and bold
ness. How a young girl at 10 o'clock
in the morning, within little more
than a stone throw of her home, and
less than 200 yards from battalion of
boys that would have sprung to her
rescue, could have been attacked and
stabbed on a public road, without i'm
mediate discovery, is beyond the COM
prehension of every one living in the
neighborhood.
That the young girl valiantly de-
Tended her honor and her life is made
plainly evident by the torn and bleed
| ing hands and the portions of wearing
apparel found about the scene, and
most of all by the small knife clenched
in her hand that she had tried to open
to fight off the fiend.
1t is fully three quarters of a mile
from Prices Corner where she got
oii Aht AtOllty car llldl DIOu6nL Hei
from the High School to where the at
tack was made. 1t is at one end of
tall growth of weeds that lines the
road alongside the farm land where
the boys were at work Choked by the
miscreant. she was dragged into the
growth, and the butchery completed
by thrusting the blade into her throat.
Lay for Five Hours.
Here she lay, bleeding and uncon-
scious. until nearly o'clock in the af-
ternoOn, when George Leech, of Els
mere saw her struggling along the
road i'm an effort to reach home. He
came to her rescue and she fell uncon-
scious, after which he took her to the
school.
Died at $50 O'Clock.
DR.. M. A. Greenwood. the school
physician; United States Senator L.
Heisler BAH. who is also a physician
and DR.. ]. Paul Lukens, were summon
ed and did what they could. 1t was
thought yesterday for a while that she
would recover, but during the after
noon she began to sink and finally ex-
pired about $3.50 o'clock
At times she was able to recognize
her parents and whisper her farewell,
but she did not revive sufficiently to
warrant the officers to take the pris-
oner before her for Identification.
The Desperate Struggle.
How desperately the girl struggled to
free herself from her assailant is
shown by the trampled underground at
the spot where the crime was COM
mitted. BY the roadside is the scene
of struggle. and a victory of strong
man over a woman. From this place
there is "A trail along which the victim
was dragged by her captor. In a clump
of bushes at the end of the trail. out
of sight from the road, is the scene of
| the murder The leaves upon the
bushes are spattered with blood, where
the girl was left for dead. Leading from
this back to the road is a trail of
/ hloOd-a distance of less than 100
yards-the scene of the dying girls
struggle to crawl to her home 1t is
believed that It took her nearly five
hours to cover the distance. Her
clothes were torn to rags. her body
covered with bruises. and she had lost
so much blood from the wounds i'm her
throat that she could not call for help
to people who now and then passed
along the highway. When she at last
reached the roadside she was exhaust
ed. and would have lain there and died
i'm the night had she not been discov-
cred by Mr.. Leech.
Evidence Against White.
Beside finding and Identifying thf
knife, the can which white wore wher
he was seen near the scene os the tiGiR-
edy about the time the crime was com
mitted has also been identified. A col.
ored man named Segars said that h,
saw White following a woman near tho
scene of the crime. He saw White run
rapidly toward the woman. TWO negr,
women saw Miss Bishop walking alonl
the road, and shortly afterward saw
White gOing ian the same direction. They
all agree that he was wearing a blacl
CAP at the time
Has a Bad Record.
White has a had record, having Onl.
, three months ago been released from
, the workhouse, after serving nve year
for assaulting Daniel Quill, a well
, known citizen of Hockessin. Previously
, il is said, he served for feloniOus as
sault and six months for house break
! ing Out of the twenty seven years o
his life nine and one-half have bee
h spent in jail.
/. one Of the greatest items of prophec