The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-08-13
Youth is Traced to Farm
house, and Men Take
Up Trail.
WOMAN HAS LITTLE
HOPE FOR RECOVERY
Son of Victim Says He Will Shoot
His Cousin on
Sight

ROCKVILLE, Nd, Aug 15.-Headed
by Sheriff Mullican, a posse Of armed
men is this afternoon closing I'm on ollie
Harris, the young farm hand, who is
suspected Of making the attack on his
aunt, Mrs. Clara Harris, in a corn field
on her farm near Travilah yesterday,
and nearly beating her to death with an
iron bar
Harris has been traced TO a farm
house on the other side of the river
sihova Seneca, where he stopped early
this morning TO get food The sheriff
and his men were only two hours be
hind the fugitive, and II Is expected
that he will be captured before night,
1t was discovered today that Mrs.
Harris. in addition TO being beaten,
had been shot ii the head with a %
oaIiber revolver. The bullet entered her
skull just above the right ear. Her head
and face had been SO badly crushed and
bruised that the bullet swound was not
discovered until DIT. Nourse made
careful examination this morning.
Harris revolver is missing from
his home
After an aII-night search, it was dis
covered that Harris crossed the river
above Seneca late last evening. He
spent the night in the woods. and this
morning applied at a farm house for
food. Persons living in the house had
not heard Of the attack on Mrs. Harris,
and readily gave the young man good
meal.
Two hours later the sheriff and his
posse reached the house and learned
that Harris had started through the
woods leading away frou4 the river.
Physicians who are attending Mrs.
harris say that there Is practically no
hope for her recovery. Her skull is
fractured in two places and her face and
head horribly cut and bruised. Part
OF her right ear was severed by one OF
the blows which crushed her skull
At first IL was thought that robbery
was the motive for the crime, as HRS.
Harris was known TO usually carry q
considerable sum Of money with her.
Would Shoot Cousin.
Feeling Is running high among the
residents of the little village. and James
Harris, Mrs Harris twenty-year-old
son, asserts that he viii shoot his
cousin on sight
Mrs. Harris nus band. Gwynn Harris.
is an engineer. and was working
on a threshing machine near Rock
vile al the tirle OF the crime. James
left home about 3 o'clock yesterday
morning 10 join his father. and left
his mother alone in the house Mrs
Harris got up about o'clock and
started with pail OF milk through
the cornheid for the home Of her
sister-in-law, Mrs. Jefferson Harris,
about a quarter OF a mile away Ollie
Harris, Mrs. jefferson Harris son.
left his home about the same time 10
go 70 a field - get a horse TO drive
70 Rockville Charles COnnor, who
lives nearby, says he saw Mrs. Harris
walking through the field with a man
who looked ike Ollie
He said he afterward heard the
woman's cries Of Murder and
Help" Conner, however was un-
armed, and. believing that he could be
OF little assistance. hesitated before he
stopped soon after he heard them, and
he says he supposed everything was all
right.
Finds Wounded Woman.
He notified ". H. McCrossIn. who
found Mrs. Harris. covered with blood
and mud and almost unconscious. drag
ging herself through the corn field.
Who beat you?" asked McCrossin/
"A man replied Mrs Harris.
She then said that Ollie had been with
her, and asked why he had left her.
After that she lost consciousness.
Harris did not get the horse TO go to
Rockville.