Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-06-23

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Creek township, by Sheriff Ed
gar during the noon hour Hart
was eating dinner. Sheriff Edgar
got word about noon that Hart was
at the home of his parents. Hart
declined to talk when locked II JAN,
but he appeared frightened
The victim of an alleged brutal as
sault. Of criminal intent, Miss May
Steward. aged Is, lies at the home OF
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs Albert A.
Steward, one and one-half miles north
of Haverhill, SO delirious and hysteri-
cal that her condition is critical, while
the sheriff officers are searching for
Howard Hart, aged p. her alleged as
sailant. Miss Steward was assaulted,
it is claimed, at about midnight sun
day while riding with Hart in buggy
on the highway about two miles north
east of the girls home. The Haverhiii
neighborhood is greatly stirred up over
the affair.
Since the alleged assault the girl mas
been unable to give even an lnconereh.
account of the attack. All during the
night and this forenoon she kept
screaming and shouting and calling lcr
her brother and father. Hart mas es
capped. Sheriff Edgar traced him TO
Melbourne early this morning, but lost
the trail there. Officers OF all towns
west. southwest, and northwest OF here
have been furnished with description
Of Hart.
Screams Awaken Sleeping Boy.
It was the screams of Miss Steward,
as she called for her brother, and
begged Hart not to modest her, that
led to the rescue Of the girl. The road
on which the alleged assault took place
runs by the Stephen Shank home Rus
sell Shank, aged 19. told the sheriff
officers he thought II was about mid
night when he was awakened by
woman screaming and calling from the
road near the house.
Shank got up. and yelled from the
window. then dressed. went to the barn
and mounted his pony and fastened
on the gal1op down the road In the Oh
rection Of the screams. He followed
close TO the buggy for short distance,
but. being timid. did not interfere, al
tho the cries that came from the buggy
ahead told plainly the nature OF the
assault.
When Shank reached the Hall home,
a short distance down the road he
turned in and awakened Bert Hall, a
boy friend. Hall got a horse and to-
zetlaer the two boys took up the pur-
suit Of the buggy.
Hart Threatens Violence.
According to the story Shank told.
he and Hall came up with the buggy
and passed around it, then stopped the
horse. Selling a wrench from the bug
". Shank said Hart jumped from the
buggy and threatened to attack the
boys. but evidently thought better OF
1t. Shank and Hall lifted Miss Stew
ard out of the buggy, but found tina,
she could not walk. They put her back
in the vehicle and, leaving their horses
all four started for the Steward home
During the excitement there, incident
to awakening the family and getting
Miss Steward into the house, Hart dis
appeared in his buggy.
Gets Pay and Left.
Hart has been employed by farm
er named Oettger tenant on the Alber
Kiesewetter farm, one and one-hal
miles northwest Of the Steward home
From the Steward home Hart evident
" fastened to the home Of his en-
ployer.
Oettger told Sheriff Edgar that Har
aroused him out of bed and said h,
wanted his pay as he was going t
leave because he was in trouble. Asket
for an explanation, Hart, according t
Oettger, told him that he had got int
trouble with some boys, and had had
fight. Oettger said he paid Hart So
the amount that was due him. Har
then left with the horse and buggy i,
which he had been driving with Mis-
Steward, and which belonged to him
He drove west.
Girls Condition Serious.
Sheriff Edgar and Deputy sherit
Henry answered the call from III
Steward home, that was telephone
here about 1870 this morning. Befor
they left the Steward home DR.. NJ [
Chesire, who had been summoned, ar
rived. He found the girl throwing her
self about the bed, screaming and cry
ing. and calling for her father an
brother. She was suffering APPARENT
from b tremendous nervous shock an
acute hysteria and was vomiting fire
ouently. She appeared to be mental
deranged, due to fright and shock. n
serious injuries were found on he
body.
The direction Hart took was fol
lowed by Dr. Chesire and Sheriff Ed
M a. far as Melbourne. A man, an
swering the description Of Hart, wa
supposed to have been seen near Me-
bourne, but there was no definite clu
fhore that Hart had been in the tow
May Have Been Dragged.
Certain symptoms Of the girls cor
dieton leads the physician to beliey
IL perhaps the girl was drugged, b,
- = by no means certain Of this de
tat
Ms Steward, who is a young woma
n oxcellent reputation, had been wit
IIn6t to this city. 1t was while the
Vuto on their way home that the a
16nd assault was made.
9lart II described as short and hea,
! ~ ~ weight. weighing about 135. H
- are blue, his face red, and h
brown. He wore blue sert
I four button tan oxfords, and
~ sailor hat. He drove a large bs
9s WITH . white face. hitched to