The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-06-28
Bound and Gagged Her and
Then Burned Out Her
Eyes
HAD Been REFUSED FOOD
AND SOUGHT TO TAKE REVENGE
Secured Entrance Into House and
POunced Upon the Woman and Aft.
. er Rendering Her Helpless, Pour.
ed Acid In Her Face.

Butler, Pa, June 2S.-Armed posses
of determined men are securing the
hills in every direction today, eager
to be avenged on a tramp who perma-
nently blinded and otherwise mis-
treated Butler county woman today.
Because she refused his request for 3
piece of bread and cup OF coffee tho
tramp attacked Mrs. John Sedoris, a
young farmers pretty wife, near
Greece City, at o'clock this morning,
rendered her unconscious with a blow,
bound and gagged her and then pour
ed two-ounce bottle OF carbolic acid
on her face, destroying her sigh. and
causing burns from which she may
not recover. Reviving soon after her
assailant had fled she lay helpless and
In pain, her hands tied behind her
back, her feet bound together and e.
switch which she had worn when at
tackled crammed into her mouth, un-
til found by her husbands sister,
Miss Florence Sedoris.
While Mrs. Sedoris was preparing
breakfast the tramp appeared at a
rear door and asked for something to
eat. When told that there was no
bread in the house and that Mrs. Sc
doris was baking he refused to take
the explanation and became abusive.
Sedoris appeared and the tramp went
away. 1t was thought the stranger
had left the premises and Sedoris
went about his work at the barn after
he had eaten breakfast.
Awaits Mans Departure.
The tramp, hidden behind clump
Of bushes between the house and the
barn, waited until Sedoris passed. He
then went to the front of the house
and stole upstairs, where he obtained
several towels and q bottle of carbolic
acid. which was standing on a bureau,
besides gathering up loose change and
valuables he found in bureau draw
er. Again hiding the tramp sprang
upon Mrs. Sedoris as she passed alons
q walk, threw his arms about her
neck and placed his hands over her
mouth to stifie her screams. He bore
her to the ground, snatched the switch
from her head, thrust it into her
mouth and bound it securely by means
OF towel about her head. He then
tied her hands and feet with the tow
els.
"Ycu will refuse poor man some
thing to eat, will you," he said to the
helpless woman, adding insulting re-
marks. Drawing the bottle of poison
from his pocket he said "You are a
pretty little thing, but you won't be
pretty when l get through with you.
I'll have my revenge now." With
this the fiend dashed the burning acid
into her face. "Ive fixed you now SO
you won't wear any more lownecked
dresses" the fellow said, and laughed
as he dealt the woman q blow on the
head and fled.
Children See Attack.
Two little children OF the family,
aged 3 and years, saw their mother
attacked, but were too frightened to
tell their father or their aunt. Miss
Sedoris, who had been in a remote
part of the house, found her sister-in-
law in agony few minutes later and
hurriedly cut the bonds and removed
the gag. Sedoris was summoned from
the barn.
81 cannot see!" cried Mrs. sedoris.
Later when DR.. c. w. DeWilfe of
Chicora arrived he found the woman's
sight probably destroyed. She is suf-
fering greatly from shock and may
not live.
Officers at Butler and surrounding
towns were notified and posses are af-
ter the tramp, who had start of an
hour before the alarm spread. Sc.
doris, armed with shotgun, headed
one of the parties. The whole coun-
tryside is aroused over the outrage
and a lynching is not impossible. A
reward of $500 was announced by
relatives of the woman for the cap
ture of her assailant