The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-09-04
REVOLVING CRIME
DOWN AT NEVADA
Two Men Attack Fourteen-Year-OId
Girl, Drag Her to Alley and
Assault Her.
HAVE NOT BEEN APPREHENDED
Much Mystery Surrounds the Affair."
Offenders Disappear and Leave
No Trace Whatever.

One of the most fiendish and re.
voting of crimes was committed over
at Nevada one evening last week,
when Jennie Post, fourteen year old
girl, was set upon by two men, drag
ged into an alley and assaulted. The
fiends escaped under cover of dark
ness and though every effort has been
to their identity or whereabouts is
known as yet.
About S:45 Jennie, the fourteen
year old daughter of Mrs. E. A. Post.
after visiting at the home of her
brother, Clare, at the corner of Sec
ond avenue and Locust street north,
went on west to the home of another
brother, Claude, and from there start
ed down Sycamore Street for her
home on Court avenue.
According to the story told by the
half-crazed girl when she reached her
home, she was about half way be-
tween First and Second avenues
north, walking down the middle Of
the street. When just in front of the
house occupied by Mrs. Elliott-Mc-
Kee, she noticed two men and girl
in front of that yard and suddenly
two more men or boys stepped out
and grabbed her, forcibly dragging
her into the alley across the street
and while one held his hand over her
mouth to prevent her from scream
ing for help the other assaulted her.
The girl finally succeeded in elud-
ing his hand and screamed for help,
her cries frightening her assailants,
and they jumped and fled north, all
four going in the same direction, while
the other girl went east. Marshal
Boiler was Immediately notified and
organized a posse to scour the town.
Guards were placed at all roads and
surrounding towns notitieJ, but no
clue could be discovered that proved
of any value. Several strangers were
brought before the girl, but none an
swered the description of the men
wanted.
Much mystery also surrounds the
identity of the other girl-the one
with the other two men on the lawn
on the east side Of the street. She
disappeared completely and no report
was made of the affair. The officers
are trying to find her, thinking that
she may be able to throw some light
on the terrible crime.
According to the story OF the IN
iured Girl. the four men were all short
and her assailants appeared to be well
dressed, although in the semi-dark-
ness she could give but a faint and
rather vague description OF them.
Four strangers who had spent the az
ternoon in the city and had been
noticed on the street during the early
part of the evening were searched for
but no traces of them could be found.
All hotels and boarding houses were
investigated, but so far there has not
been the slightest clue to the where
abouts of these strangers, said to De
'.iunk" men, or as to how they left
the city, there being no outgoing
trains between the time they were
seen on the street and a couple OF
hours after the crime was committed.
There is no question that every
thing in the power of the authorities
will be done to apprehend the men
who are worse than criminals. They
should be hunted to the ends OF the
earth, and caught, made to suffer ev'
ery torture possible for the dastardly
crime of which they are guilty. Hang
ing is much too good for such beasts
and lynching-which was at first talk
cd of at Nevada--would only be bar
baric way of doing away with two
worthless lives. But a punishment to
the limit of the laws is coming to
these two fiends when they are
caught.-Jefferson Bee.