Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-01-01
TERRIBLE INDICTMENT
OF CRIMINAL PARENT
IN TILLAMOOK COUNTY
A MAN IN COUNTY JAIL WAS A HERO
ypsoNFR DoTY DAVIS GIRLS AWAY
FROM HOME TO SAVE FROM FATE THAN DEATH
DESERVES A REWARD.

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.be Marion county jail unable to give
$3.50 bail. bound over to the grand
iury on a charge Of enticing a female
under is years of age away from her
home The facts are about as fol-
lows. Doty and Agnes Davis fell
IN love or at least he made the girl
think they were, aud she eloped with
him. They we're married at Salem
last August. the clerk issuing the
marriage license in regular form. to
which Felix La Branch swore as
witness. that the girl was Is and
over. II It were not a fact that La
Branch, who has property, merely
acted as witness and swore to the
license on the theory that he was
merely attestlng to the fac THAT he
knew Doty, he might be liable to per-
Jury. Rev. Selleck made DOty and
the girl man and wife In regular
form. as pastor of the Methodist
church. and all went merry as a mar
riage bell. until the father of the
girl. c. s. Davis. swore out a warrant
against Doty for enticing his daugh-
ter away from home. He was the
principal witness at the trial and the
girl seemed completely under his
hypnotic control. and let him swear
the crime onto Doty,' while Il Is well
known, Mrs. Davis approved OF Doty
taking the girl away from the home
over which Davis has exercised a
lerrorlzing influence.
Ooty's story Now True.
BY the arrest OF Davis last week II
appears that what Doty told In court
at Salem was true. There was an
internal relation existing between
The unnatural father and the girl he
married and took away from that
home Ia the mountains where far
from the protection OF society this
brute OF a father was debauching his
own daughters. Following account
OF the immoral relations existing In
the Davis family are revealed by the
arrest and trial of Davis at Tilla-
nook. The worst details of the
story are omitted, but enough is told
TO brand Davis as a At man for the
asylum or state prison. and Doty Is
shown up In the light OF something
OF hero in getting at least one of
the girls away from the hendish
parent
tFrom the Tillamook Headlight1
A Revolving Crime.
Another disgusting and revolving
case was probed into last week by
Deputy District Attorney W. II
Cooper and sheriff II. Crenshaw,
who went to the south part of the
county to investigate the sensational
stories which had leaked out about
Z Davis failing to provide for
his wife and family. and II was also
ntlmated that Davis had been ravag-
ing his eldest daughter, Bertha Da- I,
'ls a girl between Is and 16 years
u age. The ugly reports turned out
10 be correct and the officers placed
Davis under arrest on charge of
neglect in providing for his wife and
'hiIdren. He was brought TO the
aty on Saturday and placed In the
ounty jail. 4
Charged With Rape. /
On Monday Davis was confronted
'lth most serious charge, which, IL
'e Is found guilty is liable to spend
long term in the penitentiary. 90
ears TO a life sentence being the
'enal'y for a statutory offence of the i
nature which Davis will have 10 stand
r'al' The charge is rape, commit
cd upon his daughter. He was
rought before Justice of the Peace
= T. White, and District Deputy At !
orney Cooper read the complaint
'hleh was as follows:
On the 9Th of August. c. r. Davis
ID wihfully. unlawfully and forciblv
nd against her will ravish and
'rnally know one. Bertha Davis. a
male child Of the age of Is years
le' the said Bertha Davis, being
len and there the daughter of EN-
Ia Jane Davis, the wife OF him. the
Nd c. f. Davis. contrary to statute
such cases made and provided AMI
sainst the peace and dignity Of the
ateof Oregon.
Davis waived examination and was
ound over to the circuit court, the ..
all being placed at s25OO. He was
'eked up in the county jail and ne
lll be tried probably. at the circuit
ourt which convenes in this city on :
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