Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-18
eIRL. WHO CAME
here WITH MAN
FINALLY CAUGHT
v.rraret Gietz, Muscaitne,
Tells Police She Wanted
20 Marry Negro.
orpENTs AFTER GRILLING
- in Home Of colored Family
ard Found Hiding Under
Mattress Of Bed.
, ..- practically forcing their wa

lnsr practically forcing their way
-, ,,s home OF Doc" Pollard. COL
- in the rear OF Fishers barber
-, soeS Fifth avenue, at 5 o'clock
,,.rsav afternoon, the police found
v,-rsret Gie,z. the Muscatine girl
=, s,opsd TO Rock Island with BOs-
- Clay, colored. who was arrested
,.s,erday afternoon
when taken into custody she was
-.-z on the springs OF a bed, with a
-,,fress. featherbed and quilts piled
: ,ou. trying 20 keep out OF sight.
b vas strong in her avowal OF love
Az the negro when first arrested, but,
ear = several hours grilling this
-,-uiuz. she seemed TO repent her &C
,io-s. The police. however, think that
,ss sorrow she expresses now is only
,snporary. and that as soon as mat
~. are settled she will forget the
,s-,u-e painted TO her by the officers
Thscn caused her TO regret her course.
About 4:45 o'clock yesterday after
-,ou the police received a tip that the
nj was at Pollard's home. Pollard Is
enjoyed as a porter at the Thirty
srst street station OF the Rock Island
rsilroad. Chief OF Police Jaames
Brinn, Detective Thomas Cox and Off
Ger Charles Ginnane went to the place.
They raped a. the door and Mrs.
Pollard answered the summons. They
,old her that they wanted the Gietz
r.rl. but she stated that she aid not
know who they meant. as she had no
iris there. They told her that they
would be compelled TO force their way
into the house for the woman If she
did not produce her. Mrs Pollard said
that they would have to have a search
warrant first and demanded such pa
per.
The officers did not wait to secure
the warrant. however, but forced their
way into the house, and the search
began. Every room was visited until
fnally they came to the bed room
Find Girl in Bed.
The police lifted away the quilts,
rather bed and mattress to behold
the girl lying on the springs. She was
Stubborn and saucy at first and re-
fused 10 talk TO the officers, but after
she was at the station for awhile she
lost her Indignant air.
The officers did not gain much infor-
nation last night, but this morning
she talked more freely.
Al first she stated that she loved the
eolored man, and that she came to
Rock Island TO marry him. She said
nat she pawned a watch in Muscatine.
secured 81 and came 10 this city to
IN him.
The officers later prevailed upon her
TO forget the colored man. and she was
seen deep in repentance of her action.
she told the police that Clay had al
Esys been a gentleman TO her, and
hat be was not a bad sort.
The girl came by train from Musca-
NE to Davenport. and from there to
iais city via street car. Her suit case
He'd with clothes was secured at the
Rock BLAND depot in Davenport this
morning.
Her three brothers who followed the
nEi to this city, and who yesterday
Earning caught the negro near Fourth
Hsnue and Fifteenth street, threaten
-s 10 XII him at the time, departed
~ heir home in Muscatine in the af-
<rnoon, after conducting a search
1roagh the city all Of the day.
Aner the girl was arrested the po-