New Ulm review., 1912-09-11
.OWN COUNTY. MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER
1nhuman Assault Attempted.

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Henry Kaping, q married man and
> father, Is languishing in the Brown
County jail charged with the heinous
o6ense Of having attempted carnal
knowledge Of q female child under the
age of ten years. And Is worse
he seems rather ohcerned about.
the whole matter and does not seem
to realize the gravity Of the offense
he is charged with.
The accused was taken into cust0-
Ay Wednesday morning by Chief Ad.
Klause and taken to the police station
where he made a written confession
and was then promptly locked up in
the County Jail and the County At
torney notified, who came to New Ulm
on the evening train. The next morn
ing Thursday criminal complaint
was filed with Justice Henningsen
and criminal warrant issued by him.
Kaping was brought before Justice
Henningsen in the afternoon and was
represented in the preliminary exam
ination by Attorney JOS. A. Eckstein.
The hearing lasted practically all
Thursday afternoon and was concluded
Friday morning shorty after ten
O'Clock. The justice was Of the opin-
ion that there was probable cause to
believe that the defendant was guilty
of the crime he is charged with and
ordered him bound over to await the
action of the grand jury at the De-
cember term of court. In view of the
fact that the penalty for this offense
is Imprisonment in the state prison
with a maximum of more than seven
years, the justice has no jurisdiction
to admit the accused to bail and IT
he desires to be liberated he will have
to make application to Judge Olsen
who will fix the amount of his bail.
From the evidence it appeared that
when Frances Stengard the seven
year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
win Stenberg, who live on the Mather
and Fisher farm formerly the Max
Miklas place., near the Poor Farm,
was walking home from school Tues
day afternoon and had reached the
Aufderheide brick-yard, she was &C.
costed by a man on bicycle who
asked her If she wanted a ride. She
consented, and expected that when
they reached the road leading to Bent
zin's that her companion would turn
down that way, but instead OF doing
that he kept on straight south and
crossed the Metzen bridge. The lit
tie girl became frightened at this, but
the man partially calmed her by tell
ing her that they would pick nuts
and that he woud take her home, and
led her along the side of the hill down
to a cornfield where he attempted to
carnally know her. The child was
terrified and screamed at the top OF
her voice and the culprit seems to have
become scared and desisted from fur
ther molesting the child and proceed
ed to the road with her. When they
emerged from the corn young daugh.
ter of Nick Metzen saw them and
recognized both the girl and the man.
Kaping Immediately got on his wheel
and made for New Ulm. On the way
he met Harold Peterson, Schells
driver, who also recognized Kaping.
AS soon as the little girl reached
home she told her parents what had
been done to her and the father i'm
mediately called up the police depart
ment, acquainting them with details
of the dastardly crime attempted upon
his daughter. Chief Klause at once
set to work upon the case and in a
very short time had enough evidence
to warrant an arrest which all point
ed to Kaping as the guilty party.
Early Wednesday morning he went
to Kaping's house on Payne street and
told him to dress up in the same
clothes he had worn the day before
when he had been out on his bicycle.
He did so and then accompanied
Klause to the police station where a
little questioning brought practically
a full confession from Kaping.
At the hearing the little girl was
not put on the stand, because she was
too nervous and excited. Her par
ents, Chief Klause, and the Metzen
girl gave testimony and the defendant
went on the stand in his own behalf
and tried to make it appear that he
made the alleged confession under
the promise of leniency. Without the