Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-11-15
ASSAULTED ASSAYER'S WIFE,
p,,b Mother aud Teu'Year-Old
Daughter ia a Most Brutal
Manner,
,lucw GIRL GOT TO TELEPHONE.
Om.,r, Working on Case Man Tried
Two Other Houses Before Enter
log Home Of Victim

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omc.rs are today searching Tor
s.nd who created a reign Of terror at
, ,',. At am early hour this morning
.,,s, endeayorlng to enter two houses
nc,eoded IN forcing his way into
~ ,o,l1ence Of Gustaye scfwan' on
W seventeenth South, where he bru-
, D assaulted Mrs schwan and beat
Indie n.year-old daughter After
,.ralnlng in the house for fully an hour
m.6o MS escape just few moments
.lo. 10 me arrival Of Mr.. schwan'
III. unfortunate woman, who has the
,,nra,hy Of the entire community Is
row IN A very precarious state Of ner-
,ous prostratlon, as a result OF the ter
M, assault made upon her
should the nend be captured II Is
,,obable that # win go hard with
MIMI Judging from the comments heard
IN m sides In Murray this morning as
soon as the AFFAIR became known.
WIDOWS ESCAPE.
The 0rst ntlmotlon received that the
man was abroad was at II o'clock last
pght when Mrs, L. D. White, a widow,
was awakened by someone apparently
trying to get IN at the rear door Of a
room adjacent to a millinery establish
n,nt At Murray However the fellow
vas frightened away,
WINDOW STUCK
Atil.l5 q. H. VIII Bishop and wife,
who had retired and left a light burn-
ing on account Of having a sick child,
svoEe suddenly upon hearing a noise
at window IN another room. Mr..
Bishop promptly investigated and Was
rewarded by hearing the sound Of
someone running away from the prem
sts investigation showed that the
man had prcd on the screen and had
raised the window The sash however.
vas furnished with a safety catch and
as the window was raised the pins
snapped into the sockets IN the frame,
!, was this noise that awakened the |
couple
sCHWANs HOME COMING,
L was at 2:i5 when Mr. Gustave
seiwun returned from his work at the
American Smelling & Refining CONF
panys plant where he Is employed as
assayer As soon as he entered the
house he knew that something terrible
had tnnsplred during his absence. on
The BED lay his hysterical wife, while
bis little ten-year.old girl was nursing
bruised face and weeping piteously
twas some time before he could get
even disconnected story Of what had !
happened
HORRIBLE CRIME.
In brief the story told was as follows;
About one o'clock Mrs, schwan was
awakened and was horrorstriCken 20
see masked man crawling through the
window After walking TO the table
he blew out the light and approached |
The bed where the trembling woman was
lying Here ho beat her most brutally, |
and despite her freized efforts, assault |
ti her In the meantime the little 10 |
yea'-old daughter hearing her moth |
1s oatcry, rushed into the room ana |
approached the bed. Then It was that |
'a' nend arose and struck her again
sad again telling her to the floor
BRAVE LITTLE GIRL.
A's schNan states that the brute re-
NAMED with her for an hour At last |
we plucky little girl crawled to the
~spnone that was in the other room. !
~ 'ne took down the receiver and call |
"a central the man Jumped through the !
"'uaoW and ran away.
a lev minutes later Mr.. sohwan re- |
'.,usa' ana as soon as he could get !
,s',,e0' story Of the crime he called |
" marshal Mauss ana that officer at |
'D'' TOOK up the trail J
oFFlcERs HAVE cLEw.
n nS'pl'e the fact that the man was |
him. 'r y 'aeFe Is a good description Of |
,'". He wore short moustache. and
aSe. "VOu' 90 years Oh
,,s . .., are working on a slight Glow. |
r, -. 'I4 morning started out in the dl- |
s ,.nOn OF Bingham with the homes Of |
ts.ans the suspect.
IN, 'ne TACT that the man chose in every !
S, ''aloe a house wherein a llsbt was |
rra .,As would indicate that he was
M ma. "e impression that there was |
vona .n on o. the premises, and that the |
lam 'a inside was nervous. Ttisaeus- |
Issy. = a. housewives in this district to /
SsO ', 'ne light burning until their bus. |
return from nieht sht,,
shelters 'D' ''S"' shiIt at the
d O ISn I divided as to the IDENTITY
bsIar p ssna a number Of people her, !
~ 49, under the Impresslo, ,ho, a. '