Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-05-23
Miss Holmes Has Frightfu]
 Experience With Negro Burglar in her Room.
FRIGHTENED AW A Y
C;tyured by City Detective Stanley E as Suspect and Admits
 His Crime.

After choking her brutally in he1 bedroom at the home of her uncle. Fl Knowlton Padgett, a popular condue- tor on the Cotton Belt road, Fas, Sixth avenue and Ohio street, Lovet Davis, a big burly negro who was ar rested yesterday by City Detective Stanley and jailed, made an unsuc- cessful attempt to criminally assault Miss Amey Holmes, 16 years old. The screams of the school girl aroused her aunt, Mrs. Padgett, who rushed to her assistance and the negro made his escape through a window where he had entered. The attack occurred Fri day morning at about 4:30 o'clock during the absence of Mr. Padgett from the city, he being out on his regular run. The officers would not give out the story to the press until the negro had been captured. Ate" being arrested yesterday, Davis ad-
 
 he did not attempt to assault her: that he had entered the house for the purpose of robbing it and that when she awoke he choked her to prevent, her from giving the alarm
 His Brutal Attack.
 Miss Holmes throat bears the tin- ger prints of the black brute and is badly swollen. She was almost pros- trated from fright and through Friday and Saturday suffered considerably from nervousness. She can hardly talk, the tonsils being so badly lacer- ated. She related her frightful ex- perience to friends after she learned of the capture of her assailant. Miss Holmes said she is not sure that she would be able to iedntify the negro because the room was dark when she fought with him. This will be unnec. essary in view of the fact that Con- stable Frank Stewart secured a full confession from Davis immediately after he was taken to police head quarters.
 Davis is stranger to the local pn. lice. He is believed to have come here recently from Memphis and to him the police attribute a number of re- cent burglaries here Miss Holmes says that when she was awakened oy the clutching of fingers around hec throat and that she could see tie lorm of man over her she tried to scream. but the fingers frightened their brutal hold about her throat and she began to fight with her assailant. al- though fiat of her back in bed. She nnally made the negro release one hand from her throat and then she managed to scream. Mrs. Padgett, the girls aunt. who sleeps in an ad- 3lln1ng room, hurried to her and the negro jumped out of an open window and escaped.
 Omcers Notified.
 The police and county officers were notified and Constable Frank Stew art Night Chief of Police Ed Francis, City Detective Ed Stanley and others went to work on the case. Early Friday evening the officers received word that negro was hiding under meath cottage in the Eastern sub urbs of the city. Constable Stewart ani Deputy Constable W. D. Higin- ootham hurried to the scene with the oloodhounds. Before they reached the scene a negro occupant of the house had fired at the man and he rag away. The dogs took the trail ana chased the would-be rapist for two hours, losing him in the vicinity or Fifth avenue and State street where he disappeared in a lumber yard. The officers did not give up the hunt, but Constable Stewart and c1y Detective Stanley continued to make inquiry regarding a man an- swering the description of the negro whom, the officers were positive, was .ne one who had attacked Miss
 Suspect Was the Man. q. City4 notanA; oxo-r.