The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-05-20
Eleven Year Old Dorothy
Carter Relates Terrible Ex-
periences With Step-Fath-
er, Walter Witte.
MAN WAS CAPTURED
TRYING TO ESCAPE
Witte Made a Partial Comics
sion to Attacks on the
Child, the Police State
Story Is Revolving.

Charged with a revolving crime
against his stepdaughter. Dorothy Car
ter. aged IL. Walter witte. aged IS. Of
South Sixth and II streets. is in GUS
tody at the city jail. The man was
arrested at ten o'clock this morning
by Officers vogelsong and wenger.
two miles south of Boston. as he was
making his escape. This afternoon
when confronted with the evidence in
the possession OF the police. he made
a partial confession. A medical ex-
animation of the child. and a thor
ough inquiry into the case Is to be
made late this afternoon. Up To the
present time IL Is not known what
charge will be placed against the man.
The little girl confessed to women
in the neighborhood last Sunday even
ing that her stepfather had assaulted
her on various occasions, covering "A
period of almost a year and a half,
and said that in the last week he had
attacked her almost every day. After
telling the women her pitiful story.
the child. il Is said. threatened to kill
herself IL she was not cared for by
the nefghbors- The women we're so
shocked over the charges made by
the little girl that they did not know
what to do. She returned to her
home. and Monday evening came back
to the neighbors again. told them that
she could not live and endure the
wrongs she was subjected to any
longer. Her face was distorted with
pain as she sobbed out the story of
her experiences the past eighteen
months. The child charges the last
assault was made on her by witte
yesterday noon before she returned to
school. Whites abuse of the child was
kept from her mother all this time.
Dorothy told the neighbors that her
father would kill her IL she informed
her mother of his attacks
Police Are Informed.
The little girl when she went to the
neighbors Monday night was such a
pitiful object that the women could 40
longer endure the thought of her re-
turning home and needed her plead
ings to be kept from the power of her
inhuman step-father. She was kept at
home until ten o'clock in the evening
when Police Chief Gormon was sent
for. He took the testimony of all con-
cerned in the case. but on investiga-
ton found Witte had departed.
Mrs. Witte after her daughter had
been sheltered by a neighbor search
ed for her several hours and finally be-
came so worried over her inability to
locate Dorothy that she tainted. She
was then informed that Dorothy had
been taken to the Home for FriendIess
Women and was also informed OF the
wrongs done to the child by witte.
This morning Officers Vogelsong,
and Wenger went in Chief Gormon's
automobile to Boston, and overlook
their quarry two miles south CT that.
city. He was placed in the machine
and locked up in the city jail soon aft
erwards Late this afternoon he made
a partial confession 20 two officers
who questioned him regarding the
statements made against him by his
step-daughter
Neighbors of the Whites who heard
the story told by the girl are Mortified.
and one of the women is under the
care of physician almost prostrated.