Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-27
Vacant Smile Answers Questions.

The girl, who proved to be Miss Barrigh,
was clad only in thin undervest and
short petticoat. The captain wrapped her
in his buggy robe, and asked her what
she was doing.
II have been having a SWIM she re-
piled, with a vacant smile, and began hum
ming the afr Of popular tune.
Questioned by the captain, she told him
the story of her experience, which she aft
Queens county jail. At times she would
answer quite nationally, but often her re-
plies were at random. Frequently she
stopped in the middle of sentence, and
began hummng tune.
CAPT Gallagan took her to his office, and
telephoned to the Astoria police station.
He says the sergeant told him over the
phone that Commissioner Bingham had
ISSUED orders that the police were to re-
Ceive prisoners from the sheriff's de-
partment, and he could not send the patrol
wagon. The police at the Astoria station
deny that they received the captains mes
sage.
Gallagan obtained the girls clothes from
the Victoria Hotel. They consisted of
white shirt waist. white pique skirt and
white shoes, all showing marks Of rough
usage. In charge of Beach Patrolman
James Talbot she sent to the Queens
county jail. in Long Island City, arriving
shortly after noon.
She was placed in charge of Mrs Wells
the matron, who sent for DIR. Clarence n.
Platt the jail physician. He found that
Miss Barrigh was suffering from "a number
of bad bruises, and that she had been ter
ribly mistreated. She was out of her mind
most of the time, but with short lucid in
tervals.
Girl in Power Of Nine Brutes.
At the jail she told the story, piece by
piece, of how she had been met by man
at Eighty-sixt Street Park, and enticed
into boat. She said that the man had
then taken her to North Beach, where he
WIS met by eight other men. Where they
! took her she seemed to have only vague
idea but conveyed the impression that she
had been carried to some place and held
prisoner until she made her escape Tues
/ By words she let drop from time to time
| when she was lucid the officials gathered
| an idea of the horrible treatment to which
she had been subjected while in the power
| of the nine men. That she had survived
| the ordeal was matter of wonder to those
who heard her story and saw her condition.
! The officials at the jail telephoned the
name and address of the girl to police head
quarters, and Alexander Barrigh, the
father. visited the prison Thursday morn
ing; The police message was the first news
OF his daughter he had received since she
LETT home on Saturday afternoon.
lie was compet ely Frustrated at sight of
her condition. and at first 1t was feared he
would be seriously affected by the shock
| The girl was kept at the jail in charge OF
| tIe Hatron until yesterday morning, when
she was removed to the Kings County Hos
pital and placed in the insane ward
1t was learned by the police that the
girl had been attacked by two men In
Central Park on the Sunday before she dis
appeared from home. and that as a result of
her experience at that time her mind had
been affected. This caused her to become
an easy victim of the man who lured her
from the Eighty-sixth Street Park.
On the Sunday in question, according tc
the story told by her father to the police
the girl had gone with her sister Pauline
fifteen years old for a walk in Contra
Park. They had been approached by three
rough looking men. and Pauline after G
struggle had escaped. She had run home
and told her parents Of the affair
Attacked in Central Park.
Two hours later Virginia reached HON
and told her father that two of the mel