Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1914-06-04

over TO the district court followinI
a preliminary hearing before Judg
G. @. Hutchison on the charge o
attempting to forcibly ravish Mrs
Isaac Mcdonald last Friday night
Lords bond was fixed at $500
the others at $1,000. So far the!
have failed to give bond and arr
locked up in the county Jail. Th'
amounts OF these bonds are low, con
sidering the crime with which the
men are charged.
The attack occurred short
ly after IL o'clock Friday night, as
the McDonalds were entering their
yard throcgh the back way. Lord is
charged with being the assailant,
and Hughes and Allison with being
accessories. Mrs. Mcdonald was
unharmed except for scratches about
the face. Lord, Allison and Hughes
refused to plead to the charges.
The attack occurred as the Me-
Donalds were going home, McDon-
aid, an employe of the Santa Fe,
testified this morning. He was the
first witness. Mcdonald said, in
substance, that his wife who had
been attending the commencement
exercises at the Seelye, came to a
restaurant near the Santa Fe and
there Joined her husband. They
started east down the track, the
usual route they take in going
home. Their home is on South
East Fourth street, south of the
tracks and on the north side of
the street. Mrs. Mcdonald happen
ed to look behind her and saw three
men running toward them up the
track. She called her husbands
attention to this. but he replied that
''the men had as much right to go
up the track as we had"
II had iust held nm a lEire that
runs along the back Of our yard,
SO that my wife might get UNDER
Mcdonald said, when one of the
men came up to me and accosted me.
l don't know what he said, or that
he said anything. l told him that it
must be a case of mistaken identity,
that we were going home. Then he
struck me, knocking me down. My
wife was about 10 feet ahead Of me.
When the man knocked me down,
;he screamed. Then the man grab
bed my wife by the wrist and
struggled with her, making insult
Ing suggestions. The other two
men, whom / learned later were
Allison and Hughes, stopped some
distance away. Hughes sat on the
abroad track. Allison was between
he tracks and me. When I got up
rom the ground Allison shouted to ,
ord to hit him again. Lord ,
truck me again, knocking me down.
iy wife was screaming and by the :
lme / was up again neighbors were 7
here. :
"When Allison heard Mrs. Conner Z
a neighbor) coming to the place h
nd shouting My God, my God, I
Iildred!' fearing that it was her |,
aughter, Allison said Here Ed,
It this fellow alone. He works at Il
le Santa Fe and this is his wife. n
hen Lord ran" t.
When the neighbors came, Nc
onald testified, Allison and Hughes I
led to hush the matter up and
ade the astounding offer to bring
ord around in the morning to
'ologize." Allison and Hughes did
It take any part in the attack up II
the McDonalds. ~
Henry Engle, marshal, was next -
lied. He told how he had been a.
lied up town by Tom Edmundson, a.
zht watchman, and how he and ~
lmundson had gone down Buck "
e. They found out where the a.
lrm had been turned in through v
, central phone office and then AZ
ind Mr.. Mcdonald and learned of a.
} affair from him. While they ."
re talking to Mcdonald, Allison
d Hughes came up Buckeye and Nj
re taken into custody. They were
ten to the city hall and quizzed
,arately. They said they had
1ght a pint of whisky from
I'd man, whom they did not know
! that this third man had said ne
t he had a woman up the track. tn'
Ii men told the same story. Wn
rhe story the McDonalds told of we
man calling the other Ed" led mig
suspicion fastening upon Lord