The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-17

Unknown Man Lures Gertrude
Allison Into the
Suburbs.
ASSAILANT ELUDES CAPTURE
BY SHERIFF'S POSSES
Led to Follow Strange Man By
Promise of Dollar, Child is
Taken to Edge of City and
Attacked.

Gertrude Allison. 10-year-old girl
living with her widowed mother on
First street near the Rex Spray plant.
was lured into the brush at the south
east edge of the city and assaulted
By an unknown man at noon yester-
day. Her assailant has not vet been
captured, as he made a detour of the
city and probably left for the west
on No. at $40 p. m. Posses or
ganiZed on the search secured the city
frutlesslv.
The girl had been sent by hor
mother to deliver a message to an adj
dress on South Fourth street. and was
walking south opposite the Fashion
stables when a tall thin smooth shaw
en- white man wearing a stiff hat
came UP behind her.
Little girl" he said, do vow
want to go on an errand for me and
make a dollar?"
Gertrude at first wanted to know
what the errand was.
I'm in a lot of trouble" the man
replied, land I have got to have a
letter delivered at a house not far
away Immediately"
Lured by Silver Piece.
All the time he was talking they
were walking on south on Fourth
street and when he turned at cor
ner to go east, Gertrude followed,
tempted by the promise of a cleaning
dollar the stranger showed her
Where do you want the message
delivered?" asked Gertrude as she
saw she was being led farther and
farther from her original destina-
ton.
''Tll show you in Just a minute"
hand and attempted to hasten her
footsteps.
This excited the girls suspicious
"Whv don't you take the letter
yourself?" she inquired.
Because I can't, that's why" The
man growled. 1--WE had trouble with
the people in the house, and 1 can't
go there myself. The place is lust
a little way now, it isn't much far
Their"
Threatened to Kill Ter.
They had now reached the edge If
the city at a point opposite the
ranch of Clement l.. Darling. Here
he took hold or the girls arm above
the elbow in a vice-like grip, that
made her vince wit hpain. He bent
over and whispered in her ear:
Come with me quietly. $If you dare
to scream or try to attract the at
tention of anyone passing I will Kill
you instantly"
They continued on until a place
was reached east of Gilmore's ranch
on the road to the slaughter house
Here he forced her to accompany
him into the netghboring brush.
C. F. Mcbride, a rancher in the
Mckee, was driving along the road on
his way into the city a few minutes
later when he saw the girl run out
into the road, white and trembling
and with the red marks of the brutes
fingers on her neck. 1t was with diff
ficulty that he could get her to tell
her story as she as completely over
come with fright. The man, she
said, after taking her a few rods
from the road, had attacked her, and
then ordered her to remain in the
exact spot where she stood until he
returned. He was going away to de-
liver the letter, he said. Gertrude at
once ran to the house on the Darling
place, but there was no one at home
then she ran on to the road, encouu-
tering Mr.. Mcbride, who brought her
no her home in this city, and later tn
formed the sheriff's office of the o.
currerea.
Brute Assailant ESCAPED.
SO much time was consumed IN
caring for the little girl who, while
not seriously injured, was in a state
of complete nervous prostration, that
it is feared the assailant escaped be-
fore the case was reported to the
authorities. A posse of deputies We're
Immediately placed on the trait. but
no trace of the man could be found
At late hour last night he had not
been apprehended and Sheriff Ian-
caster is confident the man went away
on No. 5, and his description has heen
wired to points along the line. so that
there is hardly any doubt that he
will be placed under arrest between
this city and Seattle.