The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-09-10
Girl Terribly Injured Declares That
Bushman is the Man Who AS
saulted Her at Midnight
Wednesday Night
From Wednesdays Dailrl

CONSCIOUS ana SuHeranS from a score
of wounds in different parts of the
body. The girl was almost without
clothing and was hysterical. In broken
sentences she told the residents of the
house that she had been assaulted and
1avished by a man whose name was
not known to her and left for dead in
a ditch just south Of the railway tracks
on Ashland avenue. The girl who was
weak from the loss of blood was car
rled to the home of her aunt, Mrs
Michael Doherty on Ashland avenue,
and surgeons called to attend her.
Later under the direction of DIR. John
Cleary she was removed in an ambu-
lance to the Kenosha hospital This
afternoon it is said that while the con
dition Of the girl is very serious that
she will recover. However, her in
juries are Of most revolving nature
and she Will probably bear through
life, if she survives, the marks of her
awful encounter with the man who ra-
Wished her.
Henry Bushman, aged twenty years
and Willie Hansen, aged "a years, were
arrested in connection with the case
|and Bushman was positively identified
by the young woman as the man who
committed the terrible assault on her.
Bushman was taken at his home on
West street by Police Officers Euting,
Biennemann and Nelson, just before
one o % ok this morning. He was in
bed at the time of his arrest and had
a double barrelled shot gun at the
side Of the bed. He made no attempt
to use the shot gun to prevent his be-
ing taken by the officers. Later Bush
man and Hansen were taken to the
Doherty home where the surgeons were
dressing the wounds of the young
woman and she positively Unidentified
him, but stated that she had never. seen
Hansen before.
Miss Doherty at the hospital late
this morning told an awful story of her
struggle with Bushman and the wounds
on the body TESTIFY to the truth of her
statements. The entire left side of her
head and face show signs of the ter
rible beating given her by the man.
Over her left eye on the forehead there
are number of bruises which were
evidently made by some blunt instru-
ment. The scalp was almost beaten
from the skull and the surgeons are
not satisfied that the skull was not
fractured. Her hands and breast are
torn as if by finger nails and on her
arms and head are wounds which indi
cate that she was kicked into insen-
sibility Her clothing was covered
with blood and dirt and it was evident
from the condition of it that she had
made great struggle before the man
who assaulted her accomplished his pur-
pose. In places the flesh is torn from
the girls hands and arms while the
lower part of her body is also terribly
bruised. A portion Of her clothing is
still missing while the portions secured
by the police are torn in shreds and
covered with blood
In telling the story of the assault
to the district attorney this morning
Miss DohertY became hysterical and
only a port1o& sf the story could be
secured. She, stated that in company
with Miss LkzlaA Waters who resides
on Pomeroy stsatS she had attended
the medicine sir, gwen on the west
side and had So ID for home just
after ten o'cloca lEuesday evening.
She had walked ~ Miss Waters to
her home and bad 81 ted east toward
her own home. She ID that Bushman
had followed her while Willie Hansen
rename behind with the Waters girl.
Bushman according to the story of the
girl made repeated attempts to take
hold of her arm and escort her home,
but she declined his offers The man
followed her and she claims that Just
before the home of her aunt was reach
ed he caught her by the throat and
pushing his other hand into her mouth
to act as gag he dragged her south
along Ashland avenue. The girl made
an effort to shout for help and the
man began striking her with his fist.
1t was about this time that she lost
consciousness, but she remembers how
the man dragged her into the ditch
and beat her, as she says, with his fist,
but the officials believe that the man
deliberately kicked her into unconscl-
BUSINESS. The girls statement of her
treatment was: "He did everything to
me he could. The girl does not know
how long she remained unconscious in
the ditch, but when she regained her
senses she found that her clothing had
been torn from her. She wandered
about for some time before she reach
ed the house ca Collins street where
she managed to get some clothing and
assistance to her aunt s home.
Bushman was originally arrested on
a charge If burglary the officials be-