The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-01
Pitifu1 Story of His
 Daughters. JUSTICE ISSUED WARRANT
Eugene Bowling Behind Bars of
 Montgomery Prison.
Revolting Details of Unnatural Out rages Repeated to Masistrass Young by Children of Pris-
 oner--Hearing sep-
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eous offenses in the long list of crime, Eugene Bowling. carpenter of West End. now lies behind the bars of the Montgomery County tail
 Against him are two charges. pre- ferred by his IS and t6 year old daugh- ters. the first of 6 crime committed. and the second of an attempt to com init the same offense against natura
 On September the two little girls Daisy and Dora- will face their father at the preliminary hearing in the court Of Justice B. c. Young. If they repeat the story related by them to the Justice and a number of kind-hearted neighbors yesterday. they will tell Of crueIties and indignitieS committed of . nature unspeakabIe.
 Daisy Bowling. the elder. will relate a series of acts which she alleges her father committed. and has been in the habit of committing for the past four years, since she was 12 years old She will tell of threats which she says hor father made to kill her if she ever re- vealed the acts which she asserts he has committed. She will tell of the many times the father, a grown man. has forced her 10 yield to desires which are revOltinE. These things. and more. with detailas she repeats the tale told to the Justica yesterday. previous to swearing out warrants for her fathers arrest.
 now he seS SS fhs ro o5 fns
 the jail will also tell of things which children Of her age seldom hear. She told her story yesterday when her sis | ter told of her alleged wrongs. She will also. If she repeats her story of yesterday. tell of an attempt at injury her father committed, she says, week | ago. Yesterday she upheld the story Of her sister. and supported her state- | menta, and she too. told of threatas and of the reasons why neither had bspoken of their wrongs.
 Most Patherie sf Stories. l The tale of the trials of the two o hs ssd1esa ana most D as eHfn n the history Of the city. If in court. # is decided that the father Is guilty of the crimes ,.n imputed ,.sd m to him. only se- | Bowling was arrested yesterday shortly before noon. on the strength of representations made by the two nttle ing, Detective W. F. Payne. connected with the police department, was called by telephone by neighbor of the two | little girls, and was told she had some thing to communicate to him. if he ' would come to her residence. The ofn- cer went to the home of the neighbor | story which the girls had to relate. Returning to the city. he went to Justiee Young, and the two men went together to the home of he chifdren'ai friend. where the story was repeated. Warrants were immediately sworn out. and constables Payne. George M. L.a- mar and J. B. Smith sent out to effect the mans capture. He was found at work on the new residence dn Perry street being erected by Sam Eabel, and was taken ieto custody. At the Jus~ tees court. he was sent to tail with out bond. until the preliminary hear | ing on the morning of September [.
 Children Before Magistrate. It was a sad story which the chfis dren told to Justice Young. Daisy and Dora are the two eldest of four chsl- dren of the man they charge with crime. One of the smaller ones in 8 girl. Lucille. aged ten, and the other. | a boy, aged twelve. The mother of the ago. Bowling married a second tine. This wife after living with hixn a number of years. left him. he says. about three years ago. and he denies knowing her whereabouts Before leaving. he declares. she had him arr rested charging him with cruelty ''or | some sucn thlng." He was uncommu- nicative when approached, and wanted Since the departure of the second Mrs. Bowling 1, om her home, the work of the hocschol6 and the care of thA younger children has fallen upon Daisy. | the eldest daughter. She says ff has been her lot to do all the housework and to prepare the meals Yet, she goes to school, and last year was in the Third Grade of the West End pupil in the Fourth Grade in the same | building.
 The first time her father perpetrated the outrage which Is hn1g charged d,,s sgslnss nss ago. She was at that time l2 yeare old. Since then, she asserts he has re- peSSted the practice rs-uiarly, Ths s house when the crime was committeds but they were 'abed and asleep. ali ex- | cept Dora, according to the stories or
 series of IndISnities.
 Her tale consisted of one long series | of indignities, which. she says she has suffered at the hands of her father. to the Justice. had been made by her | fsther, if she should ever tell She had stood In fear of him, she says. and only recently was courageous enough to overcome the fear she felt of her fa- ther and communicated the sad story to neiRhbor friend
 | Even as she spoke to the magistrates she spoke haltingly. The assured pro- tection Of the law did not suffice to wholly free her from the terror in which she seems to have held her un- the fear that he would do her harm foe the recital of the alleged wrongs to | others She is said to have made the
 statement, that her father had said he
 would cut her throat and throw her in the river if she ever divulged his secret
 When seen yesterday afternoon1 l Daisy and Dora were at the home Of 1 the neighbor who has cared for them | since yesterday. Under tho influence | of the sympathy which their friend ex- l pressed. she retold the history which she had told to Judge Young. She told | of the crime. of her life since the de- | parture of her stepmother, and Of the l fear in which she stood of the man
 who. in the eyes of man, should be her l natural protector.
 As she told of the darker crimes her l eyes lowered. She was fearful and | ashamed. The tale was of the kind
 that reVolts the normal man. During
 four years, she asserted, she had be0n