Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-24

Sheriff. Peter o. Bunker,s ~ CO.
| county, searching for the pfobabtv Atd
mentel man who attempted 10 asoatSlt
two school teachers In Clinton aItS
Cedar counties lasr week. arrived ~
the city this morning. He came here
to see the man known AZ George AltoM
who was arrested near State Center
Tuesday. Certain details Of the des-
cription Of Alton, and some Of his -
tions made sheriff Edgar think chat
Alton might be the man for whom
posses searched in Cedar and Clinton
counties, He notified Sheriff Bunker
Wednesday afternoon.
Sheriff Bunker. after seeing Alton n
the county Jail this forenoon. was ~
doubt whether he was tine man wanted.
He left Tor Vinton with Axiom this Yore-
noon to have the school teachers and
children of the schools idertify Axiom
II they could.
The story sheriff Bunker told here
was Of two most brutal attempted as
saults. The first was in 4 rural school
near Dewitt taught by Miss Smith. Of
Dewitt. Monday afternoon OF last
week while the school was In session.
Miss Smith heard some one In the
vestibule OF the building. She went to
it and opened the door. It was rain
ing. "A man was standing in the ves,i-
bule. He said that he lived near there,
ard that he had stepped in out Of the
rain. Miss Smith told him he could
remain until the rain stopped.
A little later She heard the man
moving about In tho vestibule and anc
became suspicious and fearful. Going
to the vestibule adjoining me one IN
which the man stood Miss Smith saw
tho man undro ss.ng. She FASTENED
back into the sea 30! room. dismissed
the school. and bundled, the few chill
dren out of window. BY that time
the man. entirely nude, came running
into the school room. Miss Smith
jumped thru a window and ran. The
man pursued her, but fell, and the
teacher escaped. The alarm YVES
spread, and posse searched the coun-
try round about but the nunt was un-
successful.
: The second assault. even more ex-
citing than the one IN Miss Smith at
the Dewitt school. was at what Is
known as the Hirlley school. near the
Northwestern right oe way between
Clarence AMI I.owdec, Cedar county.
The school is taught by Il Miss DOugE-
erty of Clinton.
School had just opened anu the pu-
pills were singing the morning song.
The first warning o. this assault was
when one of the pupils screamed.
rhen the teacher saw crawling toward
her up the aisle a man partly clad.
Just then the man snrang at Miss
Dougherty, who fought him off with a
chair. One of the pupils, a small girl.
seized the stove poker and went to the
aid of her teacher. Together they
stood off the man. whom. they either
Knocked down or who fell down in the
aisle. The teacher and pupils beat a
retreat and as soon as the alarm was
given a second posse made search.
1t also was unsuccessful. y
Since that time Sheriff Bunker, said
twenty or thirty suspects had been ar
rested but all have been released. In
some respects the man IN Jail here is
said to resemble the man wanted. but
in others he does not. Some OF the
clothes Alton wore resembled the
clothing the hunted man had on.
Sheriff Bunker has never seen the man
for whom he is searching and all he
has to work on are the descriptions
furnished by the teachers and their pu-
pills, all OF whom were greatly fright
.ened and excited. siq