The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-28
WOMAN NARROWLY
ESCAPES VlOLEnCE
Mrs. Kaufman Assailed as She
Leaves Court Room at
Sioux Falls.
HERR" PEOPLE CRY
farxstor Delegation Dcola.ed Purpcsa
q Remaining Until Iron Bars Held
Rer-SVithout Bail for Killing
H-aiGservant.

vt@J%s." and utterirS wrathful irnpre-
cations. Mrs. ,Goses Kaufman, wife Of
ne millionaire brewer here, charged
with torturing q young servant girl to
death. barely escaped the severest
treatment, if not indeed death, at the
lands OF the enraged populace here last
Wednesday.
This demonstration followed action
/. thu court room when Justice a. B.
Wheelock held Mrs. Kaufman to the
circuit court without bail on the charge
q r~nanslaughter. She is accused of
causing the death by the most iendish
torture Of 1~6-year-old Agnes Poireis,
n was : servant III the Kaufman
home for three months and whose
death occurred June /.
Escaped in a Hack.
The woman, with her husband, a
compelled to cross the street with but
scant protection from the officers in
the face of lis howllng. cursing mob,
in order to get a carriage, their own
having been spirited away. They al
most ran to the livery barn OF Mayor
Burnside at Dakota emu Il Ninth
street n there entered a closed Vehi-
Gle.
IN effort was made to escape by way
OF Il back door. but the crowd was
watchful aud the horses, put in q run
as they left the stable, almost stamped
on men and women who We're waiting
to do something, they knew not what,
to show their ~disfavor OF the accused
woman. But for this quick action in
getting her away, some deLnit form
of violence would certainly have ap-
peared. The mob's fury was in awful
crescendo and at it's height there must
have come q leader TO direct the move
ment of the crowd-a movement whose
result is terrible to anticipate.
Taken from Home to Jail.
The angry, disappointed throag, dis
tanced by the fleeing carriage with ita
terror-stricken occupants, SWore anG
crowded in it's inlpotent rage, and after
some time dispersed, leaving the ornin-
Gus Impression that at another Tina
it would again assemble.
Mrs. Kaufman, almost III 4 stete Of
total collapse from the fright given her,
was taken to her home. where she has
been q prisoner since her arrest q week
ago. An hour later, in a closed carriage
and by q detour of the back streets, she
was conveyed to Jail. in h Big stone
court house. This action, it is stated
by both Judge Aiken, her counsel, and
States Attorney Orr, was taken as a
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ated people.
That the prisoner has beer held on
such q desperate accusation without
bali seems to the people here to be
warrant enough for placing her in Jail.
but her enfeebled physical condition,
due to the great strain Of the past
week, is given as the reason for again
taking her home.
Glad of Protection.
It is declared that Mrs. Kaufman,
although shrinking from the plainneSs
and chilliness of the cell after so much
luxury at home, showed evident relief
when assured OF the protection of the
steel oars across the door.
The alarm ~occasioned by the assault
by the moi left her weak and almost
hysterical. Naturally of ford counten-
ance, the frightened Woman's features
We're Of CHASTITY pallor. She sank down
on the iron bunk and buried her face
in her hands.
Mr.. Kaufman. the woman's husband.
Is nearly crazed by his grief over h
serious charge against his wife, whom
he evidently believes in, and by his re-
sentiment of the unlawful and terrible
demonstration made by the mob. He
paced the corridor of the Jail, tears and
passions Of anger alternating in chang
ing the appearance of his features.
Crowd sureed in Streets.
AS early as 8 o'clock this morning
the streets about Justice Whee.ock'S
court room was crowded, although the
| time for resuning the hearing was not
!. until 10. BY the time that hour ar
rived fully 500 people, t~wo-thirds OF
: them being women, crowded and scold-
ed in their effort to gain first admit
| to the court room. During this
time the case was discussed by groups
and threats of the most startling ma
!, ture were made against the woman
4 for tJ-nntI- ~ va WOO u, n ra--Inr &c : ~:
!, city, but now under accusation of tor
= turing her maid ervant to death. II
was evident before the carriage con
tanning the prisoner arrived that thu
crowd was in an ugly mood.
AS Mrs. Kaufman. heavily yelled
left ne carriage with her husband ant
: attorneys. cries OF rage We're heard
| Kisses sent their sibilant insult through
. the air and women close to the shrink.
F, ing prisoner s.}at upon her. She wa
! hurried into the court room. which was
z soon filled to suffocation.
! Protection Asked for Client.
The court proceedings We're short
Justice Wheelock announced be wa.
!, ready to proceed and States Attorne,
y Orr said:
: Your honor. The state has subnittet
= all the evidence in this case thai i
= cares to at this preliminary hearins
= and I move thai the defendant. Mrs
Fit <AAA-fA ~ iASAd VII liz Ildl
of ~1nanslaughter in the killing of Agne
= Polreis to the circuit court withou
y bail"
4 Justice Wheelock waited an instan
rs il expecting the defense to max,
objection. There was none and tn,
. court then granted the motion of tn,
: state.
Then Judge Aiken, representing tn
prisoner, arose and said.
= ASK that this our grant my ellen
adequate projections on the way +
this court she was Kissed an,
spat upon, a proceeding Of the mos
desplcable character"
Where Were the Cfficers?
IS The court promised all the nrotac
i ton he could afford n Mrs. Kauff
+ man, in the custody of the sheriff an,
N accompanied by her husband. start
"a to the street. The crowd followed /
ominoGs silence until the street wa
IS reached.
10 Instead OF finding their carriage =
If the curb, Mr.. and Mrs. Kaufman fnl,n,
q themselves staring into the faces az o.
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