Weekly journal-miner., 1910-11-16
(From Wednesdays Daily.)


 Mrs Nettie Greer was the victim of one of the most dastardly assaults known in the history of the city, yesterday afternoon, at 2:30 o'clock, when she was attacked and brutally beaten by a fiend in human form, immediately south of Whipple Heights. Her assailant escaped in the direction of Government Canyon after she succeeded in cutting a deep gash in his face with a rock. In the fierce struggle he brutally kicked her on the limbs and body and struck her in the face several times. Mrs. Greer says that she believes he was a soldier in civilian garb, and declares that he can be easily iden- tified from the gash she made in his face with the rock.
 That robbery was not the motive of the attack is attested from the fact that her gold watch was found at the scene of the struggle, with the parts of her clothing he tore from her body. He broke the cry stal of the watch and the chain when he rent her dress in the fierce conflict. Blood flowed so freely from the wound she inflicted on his cheek, that it spattered over her face and clothing in the desperate fight.
 Mrs. Greer was returning to her mothers home. southeast of the res ervoir, when she was accosted by man she remembered seeing only few minutes before at the corner of Gurley and CorteZ streets, talking to a soldier. He was dressed becoming ly, and asked her to direct him to Whipple Heights. She showed him the heights and also Fort Whipple, and he engaged her in further con- versation. Arriving at the corner of Gurley and Washington streets, sne started south on Washington street, and he accompanied her to the end of the street. when he suddenly seized her. She struggled and sue ceeded in breaking his hold. She re- sorted to her hat pin but lost it: He knocked her down and attempted to tie her hands. threatening to kill her if she continued to resist She grasped a rock and hit him on the face, when he continued the assault by brutally kicking her on the limbs and body. He tore her clothes al- most in shreds but gave up the struggle as she continued to resist, threatening that he would kill her if she reported the assault. Escaping from his clutches she ran to her mothers home. The sheriff's of flee was notified and officers are now in search of the fugitive. He was trailed to Government Canyon, imme- diately south of Fort Whipple, where all trace of him was lost.
 Later-COrporal Frank Hess of Company D, 18th Infantry, was ar rested at Fort Whipple at late hour. and lodged in the county jail, charged with the brutal assault on Mrs. Greer. He refused to make any statement further than to say that he would tell his story to the judge. The prisoner was identified by Night Officer Thomas McMahon and Deputy Sheriff Charles Keeler His face was badly swollen from the cut he re csived when struck with a rock by Mrs. Greer. He was easily identified by the blood on his clothing. He washed his hat but did not succeed in covering the other evidences of his guilt before being apprehended.
 Officers McMahon and Keeler state that they were rendered every assist ance by the army officers in effeeting the arrest. The military authorities had suspected Hess was guilty of come crime when they learned that